1 Naquele tempo adoeceu Abias, filho de Jeroboão.
2 E disse Jeroboão a sua mulher: Levanta-te, e disfarça-te, para que não conheçam que és mulher de Jeroboão, e vai a Siló. Eis que lá está o profeta Aías, o qual falou acerca de mim que eu seria rei sobre este povo.
3 Leva contigo dez pães, alguns bolos e uma botija de mel, e vai ter com ele; ele te declarará o que há de suceder a este menino.
4 Assim, pois, fez a mulher de Jeroboão; e, levantando-se, foi a Siló, e entrou na casa de Aías. Este já não podia ver, pois seus olhos haviam cegado por causa da velhice.
5 O Senhor, porém, dissera a Aías: Eis que a mulher de Jeroboão vem consultar-te sobre seu filho, que está doente. Assim e assim lhe falarás; porque há de ser que, entrando ela, fingirá ser outra.
6 Sucedeu que, ouvindo Aías o ruído de seus pés, ao entrar ela pela porta, disse: Entra, mulher de Jeroboão; por que te disfarças assim? Pois eu sou enviado a ti com duras novas.
7 Vai, dize a Jeroboão: Assim diz o Senhor Deus de Israel: Porquanto te exaltei do meio do povo, e te constituí príncipe sobre o meu povo de Israel,
8 e rasguei o reino da casa de Davi, e o dei a ti; todavia não tens sido como o meu servo Davi, que guardou os meus mandamentos e que me seguiu de todo o coração para fazer somente o que era reto aos meus olhos;
9 mas tens praticado o mal, pior do que todos os que foram antes de ti, e foste fizeste para ti outros deuses e imagens de fundição, para provocar-me à ira, e me lançaste para trás das tuas costas;
10 portanto, eis que trarei o mal sobre a casa de Jeroboão, e exterminarei de Jeroboão todo homem, escravo ou livre, em Israel, e lançarei fora os remanescentes da casa de Jeroboão, como se lança fora o esterco, até que de todo se acabe.
11 Quem morrer a Jeroboão na cidade, comê-lo-ão os cães; e o que lhe morrer no campo, comê-lo-ão as aves do céu; porque o Senhor o disse.
12 Levanta-te, pois, e vai-te para tua casa; ao entrarem os teus pés na cidade, o menino morrerá.
13 E todo o Israel o pranteará, e o sepultará; porque de Jeroboão só este entrará em sepultura, porquanto, dos da casa de Jeroboão, só nele se achou alguma coisa boa para com o Senhor Deus de Israel.
14 O Senhor, porém, levantará para si um rei sobre Israel, que destruirá a casa de Jeroboão. Este é o dia! Sim desde agora.
15 Ferirá o Senhor a Israel, como se agita a cana nas águas; e arrancará a Israel desta boa terra que tinha dado a seus pais, e o espalhará para além do rio, porquanto fizeram os seus aserins, provocando o Senhor à ira.
16 E entregará Israel por causa dos pecados de Jeroboão, o qual pecou e fez pecar a Israel.
17 Então a mulher de Jeroboão se levantou e partiu, e veio para Tirza; chegando ela ao limiar da casa, o menino morreu.
18 E todo o Israel o sepultou e o pranteou, conforme a palavra do Senhor, que ele falara por intermédio de seu servo Aías, o profeta.
19 Quanto ao restante dos atos de Jeroboão, como guerreou, e como reinou, eis que está escrito no livro das crônicas dos reis de Israel.
20 E o tempo que Jeroboão reinou foi vinte e dois anos. E dormiu com seus pais; e Nadabe, seu filho, reinou em seu lugar.
21 Reinou em Judá Roboão, filho de Salomão. Tinha quarenta e um anos quando começou a reinar, e reinou dezessete anos em Jerusalém, a cidade que o Senhor escolhera dentre todas as tribos de Israel para pôr ali o seu nome. E era o nome de sua mãe Naamá, a amonita.
22 E fez Judá o que era mau aos olhos do Senhor; e, com os seus pecados que cometeram, provocaram-no a zelos, mais do que o fizeram os seus pais.
23 Porque também eles edificaram altos, e colunas, e aserins sobre todo alto outeiro e debaixo de toda árvore frondosa;
24 e havia também sodomitas na terra: fizeram conforme todas as abominações dos povos que o Senhor tinha expulsado de diante dos filhos de Israel.
25 Ora, sucedeu que, no quinto ano do rei Roboão, Sisaque, rei do Egito, subiu contra Jerusalém,
26 e tomou os tesouros da casa de Senhor e os tesouros da casa do rei; levou tudo. Também tomou todos os escudos de ouro que Salomão tinha feito.
27 Em lugar deles, fez o rei Roboão escudos de bronze, e os entregou nas mãos dos capitães da guarda, que guardavam a porta da casa do rei.
28 E todas as vezes que o rei entrava na casa do Senhor os da guarda levavam os escudos, e depois tornavam a pô-los na câmara da guarda.
29 Quanto ao restante dos atos de Reboão, e a tudo quanto fez, porventura não estão escritos no livro das crônicas dos reis de Judá?
30 Houve guerra continuamente entre Roboão e Jeroboão.
31 E Roboão dormiu com seus pais, e foi sepultado com eles na cidade de Davi. Era o nome de sua mãe Naamá, a amonita. E Abião, seu filho, reinou em seu lugar.
1 At that time Abijah, the son of Jeroboam, became ill.
2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Now come, put on different clothing so that you may not seem to be the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh; see, Ahijah is there, the prophet who said I would be king over this people.
3 And take with you ten cakes of bread and dry cakes and a pot of honey, and go to him: he will give you word of what is to become of the child.
4 So Jeroboam's wife did so, and got up and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah was unable to see, because he was very old.
5 And the Lord had said to Ahijah, The wife of Jeroboam is coming to get news from you about her son, who is ill; give her such and such an answer; for she will make herself seem to be another woman.
6 Then Ahijah, hearing the sound of her footsteps coming in at the door, said, Come in, O wife of Jeroboam; why do you make yourself seem like another? for I am sent to you with bitter news.
7 Go, say to Jeroboam, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: Though I took you from among the people, lifting you up to be a ruler over my people Israel,
8 And took the kingdom away by force from the seed of David and gave it to you, you have not been like my servant David, who kept my orders, and was true to me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes.
9 But you have done evil more than any before you, and have made for yourself other gods, and images of metal, moving me to wrath, and turning your back on me.
10 So I will send evil on the line of Jeroboam, cutting off from his family every male child, those who are shut up and those who go free in Israel; the family of Jeroboam will be brushed away like a man brushing away waste till it is all gone.
11 Those of the family of Jeroboam who come to death in the town, will become food for the dogs; and those on whom death comes in the open country, will be food for the birds of the air; for the Lord has said it.
12 Up, then! go back to your house; and in the hour when your feet go into the town, the death of the child will take place.
13 And all Israel will put his body to rest, weeping over him, because he only of the family of Jeroboam will be put into his resting-place in the earth; for of all the family of Jeroboam, in him only has the Lord, the God of Israel, seen some good.
14 And the Lord will put up a king over Israel who will send destruction on the family of Jeroboam in that day;
15 And even now the hand of the Lord has come down on Israel, shaking it like a river-grass in the water; and, uprooting Israel from this good land, which he gave to their fathers, he will send them this way and that on the other side of the River; because they have made for themselves images, moving the Lord to wrath.
16 And he will give Israel up because of the sins which Jeroboam has done and made Israel do.
17 Then Jeroboam's wife got up and went away and came to Tirzah; and when she came to the doorway of the house, death came to the child.
18 And all Israel put his body to rest, weeping over him, as the Lord had said by his servant Ahijah the prophet.
19 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he made war and how he became king, are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel.
20 And Jeroboam was king for twenty-two years, and was put to rest with his fathers, and Nadab his son became king in his place.
21 And Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, was king in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he was king for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the town which the Lord had made his out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there; his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.
22 And Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and made him more angry than their fathers had done by their sins.
23 For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;
24 And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.
25 Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem;
26 And took away all the stored wealth from the house of the Lord, and from the king's house, and all the gold body-covers which Solomon had made.
27 So in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass, and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.
28 And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.
29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?
30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
31 And Rehoboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman. And Abijam his son became king in his place.