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But the Lord had told Ahijah, "Jeroboam's wife is coming to ask you about her son, for he is ill, and you are to give her such and such an answer. When she arrives, she will pretend to be someone else."

You have done more evil than all who lived before you. You have made for yourself other gods, idols made of metal; you have aroused my anger and turned your back on me.

"As for you, go back home. When you set foot in your city, the boy will die.

All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will be buried, because he is the only one in the house of Jeroboam in whom the Lord , the God of Israel, has found anything good.

"The Lord will raise up for himself a king over Israel who will cut off the family of Jeroboam. Even now this is beginning to happen.

They buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, as the Lord had said through his servant the prophet Ahijah.

He reigned for twenty-two years and then rested with his ancestors. And Nadab his son succeeded him as king.

They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.

As for the other events of Rehoboam's reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

Nevertheless, for David's sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and by making Jerusalem strong.

For David had done what was right in the eyes of the Lord and had not failed to keep any of the Lord 's commands all the days of his life—except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.

As for the other events of Abijah's reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

He even deposed his grandmother Maakah from her position as queen mother, because she had made a repulsive image for the worship of Asherah. Asa cut it down and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

As for all the other events of Asa's reign, all his achievements, all he did and the cities he built, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? In his old age, however, his feet became diseased.

As for the other events of Nadab's reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?

As for the other events of Baasha's reign, what he did and his achievements, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?

As for the other events of Elah's reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?

As for the other events of Zimri's reign, and the rebellion he carried out, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?

Then the people of Israel were split into two factions; half supported Tibni son of Ginath for king, and the other half supported Omri.

He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver and built a city on the hill, calling it Samaria, after Shemer, the name of the former owner of the hill.