1 Kings 14

1 in/on/with time [the] he/she/it be weak: ill Abijah son: child Jeroboam

At that time, Jeroboam’s son Abijah became very sick.

2 and to say Jeroboam to/for woman: wife his to arise: rise please and to change and not to know for (you(f. s.) *Q(K)*) woman: wife Jeroboam and to go: went Shiloh behold there Ahijah [the] prophet he/she/it to speak: speak upon me to/for king upon [the] people [the] this

Jeroboam said to his wife, “Disguise yourself, in order that no one will recognize that you are my wife. Then go to Shiloh [city], where the prophet Ahijah [lives]. He is the one who predicted/prophesied that I would become the king of Israel.

3 and to take: take in/on/with hand: themselves your ten food: bread and crumb and flask honey and to come (in): come to(wards) him he/she/it to tell to/for you what? to be to/for youth

Take with you ten [loaves of] bread and some small flat cakes, and a jar of honey, [and give them] to him. [Tell him about] our son, [and] he will tell you what will happen to him.”

4 and to make: do so woman: wife Jeroboam and to arise: rise and to go: went Shiloh and to come (in): come house: household Ahijah and Ahijah not be able to/for to see: see for to arise: establish eye his from age his

So his wife went to Shiloh, to Ahijah’s house. Ahijah was unable to see, because he was very old and had become blind.

5 and LORD to say to(wards) Ahijah behold woman: wife Jeroboam to come (in): come to/for to seek word: thing from from with you to(wards) son: child her for be weak: ill he/she/it like/as this and like/as this to speak: speak to(wards) her and to be like/as to come (in): come she and he/she/it to alienate

But [before she got there, ] Yahweh told Ahijah that Jeroboam’s wife was coming to inquire about their son, who was very sick. And Yahweh told Ahijah what he should tell her. When she came to him, she pretended to be another woman.

6 and to be like/as to hear: hear Ahijah [obj] voice: sound foot her to come (in): come in/on/with entrance and to say to come (in): come woman: wife Jeroboam to/for what? this you(f. s.) to alienate and I to send: depart to(wards) you severe

But when Ahijah heard her footsteps as she entered the doorway, he said to her, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam! (Why do you pretend that you are someone else?/It will not help you to pretend that you are someone else.) [RHQ] [Yahweh] has given me bad news to tell you.

7 to go: went to say to/for Jeroboam thus to say LORD God Israel because which to exalt you from midst [the] people and to give: put you leader upon people my Israel

Go and tell Jeroboam that this is what Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis [worship], says to you: ‘I chose you from among the common people and enabled you to become the king of my Israeli people.

8 and to tear [obj] [the] kingdom from house: household David and to give: give her to/for you and not to be like/as servant/slave my David which to keep: obey commandment my and which to go: follow after me in/on/with all heart his to/for to make: do except [the] upright in/on/with eye: appearance my

I took [most of] the kingdom of Israel away from David’s descendants and gave it to you. But you have not been like David, who served me [very well]. He obeyed all my commandments very sincerely, doing only things that I considered to be right.

9 and be evil to/for to make: do from all which to be to/for face: before your and to go: went and to make to/for you God another and liquid to/for to provoke me and [obj] me to throw after the back your

But you have done more evil things/deeds than all those [who ruled] before you. You have rejected me, and you have caused me to become very angry by making metal images of other gods so that you [and others] could worship them.

10 to/for so look! I to come (in): bring distress: harm to(wards) house: household Jeroboam and to cut: eliminate to/for Jeroboam to urinate in/on/with wall to restrain and to leave: release in/on/with Israel and to burn: burn after house: household Jeroboam like/as as which to burn: burn [the] dung till to finish he

‘So, I am going to cause terrible things to happen to your family. I will cause all your male descendants to die, young ones and old ones. I will completely get rid of your family [MTY]. I will get rid of your family [MTY] just like a man completely burns dung [to cook his food].

11 [the] to die to/for Jeroboam in/on/with city to eat [the] dog and [the] to die in/on/with land: country to eat bird [the] heaven for LORD to speak: speak

[The corpses of] any members of your family who die in cities will be eaten by dogs. And [the corpses of] any members of your family who die in the open fields will be eaten by vultures. [This will surely happen because] I, Yahweh, have said [that it will happen].’

12 and you(f. s.) to arise: rise to go: went to/for house: home your in/on/with to come (in): come foot your [the] city [to] and to die [the] youth

So go back home. And as soon as you enter the city, your son will die.

13 and to mourn to/for him all Israel and to bury [obj] him for this to/for alone him to come (in): come to/for Jeroboam to(wards) grave because to find in/on/with him word: thing pleasant to(wards) LORD God Israel in/on/with house: household Jeroboam

All the Israeli people will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only one of Jeroboam’s family who will be buried [properly], because he is the only one of Jeroboam’s family with whom Yahweh is pleased.

14 and to arise: establish LORD to/for him king upon Israel which to cut: eliminate [obj] house: household Jeroboam this [the] day: today and what? also now

Furthermore, Yahweh will appoint for himself a king to rule over Israel who will get rid of Jeroboam’s descendants. And that [will start to happen] today!

15 and to smite LORD [obj] Israel like/as as which to wander [the] branch: stem in/on/with water and to uproot [obj] Israel from upon [the] land: soil [the] pleasant [the] this which to give: give to/for father their and to scatter them from side: beyond to/for River because which to make [obj] Asherah their to provoke [obj] LORD

Yahweh will punish the people of Israel; he will shake them like [the wind] shakes the reeds [that grow in] a stream. He will expel the Israeli people from this good land that he gave to our ancestors. He will scatter them into countries east of [the Euphrates] River, because they have caused him to become very angry by [worshiping statues of] the goddess Asherah.

16 and to give: give [obj] Israel in/on/with because of sin Jeroboam which to sin and which to sin [obj] Israel

Yahweh will abandon the Israeli people because of the sins that Jeroboam committed, sins which led the Israeli people to commit them.”

17 and to arise: rise woman: wife Jeroboam and to go: went and to come (in): come Tirzah [to] he/she/it to come (in): come in/on/with threshold [the] house: home and [the] youth to die

Jeroboam’s wife returned home to Tirzah [city, the new capital of Israel]. And just as she entered her house, her son died.

18 and to bury [obj] him and to mourn to/for him all Israel like/as word LORD which to speak: speak in/on/with hand: by servant/slave his Ahijah [the] prophet

All the Israeli people mourned for him and buried him, which is what Yahweh had told his servant, the prophet Ahijah, would happen.

19 and remainder word: deed Jeroboam which to fight and which to reign behold they to write upon scroll: book Chronicles [the] day to/for king Israel

Everything else that Jeroboam did, and the record of wars that his [army] fought, and how he ruled, is written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Israel’.

20 and [the] day which to reign Jeroboam twenty and two year and to lie down: be dead with father his and to reign Nadab son: child his underneath: instead him

Jeroboam ruled for 22 years; then he died [EUP] and his son Nadab became king.

21 and Rehoboam son: child Solomon to reign in/on/with Judah son: aged forty and one year Rehoboam in/on/with to reign he and seven ten year to reign in/on/with Jerusalem [the] city which to choose LORD to/for to set: put [obj] name his there from all tribe Israel and name mother his Naamah [the] Ammon

Solomon’s son Rehoboam ruled Judah. He was 41 years old when he started to rule, and he ruled for 17 years. He ruled in Jerusalem, which is the city that Yahweh chose out of all the tribes of Israel to be the place where he should be worshiped [MTY]. Rehoboam’s mother’s name was Naamah; she was from the Ammon people-group.

22 and to make: do Judah [the] bad: evil in/on/with eye: seeing LORD and be jealous [obj] him from all which to make: do father their in/on/with sin their which to sin

The people of Judah did things that Yahweh considered to be evil. They caused him to become angry because they committed more sins than their ancestors had committed: They worshiped many other gods instead of worshiping only Yahweh.

23 and to build also they(masc.) to/for them high place and pillar and Asherah upon all hill high and underneath: under all tree luxuriant

They built places to worship those gods; on high hills, and under big trees they set up [stone] pillars to worship the goddess Asherah.

24 and also male cult prostitute to be in/on/with land: country/planet to make: do like/as all [the] abomination [the] nation which to possess: take LORD from face: before son: descendant/people Israel

Also, there were male prostitutes at these places of worship. The Israeli people did the same disgraceful things that had been done by the people whom Yahweh had expelled while the Israelis were advancing through the land.

25 and to be in/on/with year [the] fifth to/for king Rehoboam to ascend: rise (Shishak *Q(K)*) king Egypt upon Jerusalem

When Rehoboam had been ruling for almost five years, King Shishak of Egypt came [with his army] to attack Jerusalem.

26 and to take: take [obj] treasure house: temple LORD and [obj] treasure house: palace [the] king and [obj] [the] all to take: take and to take: take [obj] all shield [the] gold which to make Solomon

They took away all the valuable things in the temple and in the king’s palace, including the gold shields that Solomon’s [workers] had made.

27 and to make [the] king Rehoboam underneath: instead them shield bronze and to reckon: overseer upon hand ruler [the] to run: guard [the] to keep: obey entrance house: palace [the] king

King Rehoboam’s [workers] made bronze shields to replace them and entrusted them to officers who guarded the entrance to the king’s palace.

28 and to be from sufficiency to come (in): come [the] king house: temple LORD to lift: bear them [the] to run: guard and to return: return them to(wards) chamber [the] to run: guard

Every time that the king went into the temple, those guards carried those shields; and [when he left the temple] they returned the shields to the storeroom.

29 and remainder word: deed Rehoboam and all which to make: do not they(masc.) to write upon scroll: book Chronicles [the] day to/for king Judah

Everything else that Rehoboam did is written [RHQ] in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah’.

30 and battle to be between Rehoboam and between Jeroboam all [the] day: always

There were wars continually between [the armies of] Rehoboam and Jeroboam.

31 and to lie down: be dead Rehoboam with father his and to bury with father his in/on/with city David and name mother his Naamah [the] Ammon and to reign Abijam son: child his underneath: instead him

Then Rehoboam died [EUP], and he was buried in [the part of Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’, where his ancestors were buried. Then his son Abijah became the king.