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1In quel tempo, Abija, figliuolo di Geroboamo, si ammalò. 2E Geroboamo disse a sua moglie: "Lèvati, ti prego, e travestiti, affinché non si conosca che tu sei moglie di Geroboamo, e va’ a Sciloh. Ecco, quivi è il profeta Ahija, il quale predisse di me che sarei stato re di questo popolo. 3E prendi teco dieci pani, delle focacce, un vaso di miele, e va’ da lui; egli ti dirà quello che avverrà di questo fanciullo". 4La moglie di Geroboamo fece così; si levò, andò a Sciloh, e giunse a casa di Ahija. Ahija non potea vedere, poiché gli s’era offuscata la vista per la vecchiezza. 5Or l’Eterno avea detto ad Ahija: "Ecco, la moglie di Geroboamo sta per venire a consultarti riguardo al suo figliuolo, che è ammalato. Tu parlale così e così. Quando entrerà, fingerà d’essere un’altra". 6Come dunque Ahija udì il rumore de’ piedi di lei che entrava per la porta, disse: "Entra pure, moglie di Geroboamo; perché fingi d’essere un’altra? Io sono incaricato di dirti delle cose dure. 7Va’ e di’ a Geroboamo: Così parla l’Eterno, l’Iddio d’Israele: Io t’ho innalzato di mezzo al popolo, t’ho fatto principe del mio popolo Israele, 8ed ho strappato il regno dalle mani della casa di Davide e l’ho dato a te, ma tu non sei stato come il mio servo Davide il quale osservò i miei comandamenti e mi seguì con tutto il suo cuore, non facendo se non ciò ch’è giusto agli occhi miei, 9e hai fatto peggio di tutti quelli che t’hanno preceduto, e sei andato a farti degli altri dèi e delle immagini fuse per provocarmi ad ira ed hai gettato me dietro alle tue spalle; 10per questo ecco ch’io faccio scender la sventura sulla casa di Geroboamo, e sterminerò dalla casa di Geroboamo fino all’ultimo uomo, tanto chi è schiavo come chi è libero in Israele, e spazzerò la casa di Geroboamo, come si spazza lo sterco finché sia tutto sparito. 11Quelli della casa di Geroboamo che morranno in città, saran divorati dai cani; e quelli che morranno per i campi, li divoreranno gli uccelli del cielo; poiché l’Eterno ha parlato. 12Quanto a te, lèvati, vattene a casa tua; e non appena avrai messo piede in città, il bambino morrà. 13E tutto Israele lo piangerà e gli darà sepoltura. Egli è il solo della casa di Geroboamo che sarà messo in un sepolcro, perché è il solo nella casa di Geroboamo in cui si sia trovato qualcosa di buono, rispetto all’Eterno, all’Iddio d’Israele. 14L’Eterno stabilirà sopra Israele un re, che in quel giorno sterminerà la casa di Geroboamo. E che dico? Non è forse quello che già succede? 15E l’Eterno colpirà Israele, che sarà come una canna agitata nell’acqua; sradicherà Israele da questa buona terra che avea data ai loro padri, e li disperderà oltre il fiume, perché si son fatti degl’idoli di Astarte provocando ad ira l’Eterno. 16E abbandonerà Israele a cagion dei peccati che Geroboamo ha commessi e fatti commettere a Israele". 17La moglie di Geroboamo si levò, partì, e giunse a Tirtsa; e com’ella metteva il piede sulla soglia di casa, il fanciullo morì; 18e lo seppellirono, e tutto Israele lo pianse, secondo la parola che l’Eterno avea pronunziata per bocca del profeta Ahija, suo servo. 19Il resto delle azioni di Geroboamo e le sue guerre e il modo come regnò, sono cose scritte nel libro delle Cronache dei re d’Israele. 20E la durata del regno di Geroboamo fu di ventidue anni; poi s’addormentò coi suoi padri, e Nadab suo figliuolo regnò in luogo suo. 21Roboamo, figliuolo di Salomone, regnò in Giuda. Avea quarantun anni quando cominciò a regnare, e regnò diciassette anni in Gerusalemme, nella città che l’Eterno s’era scelta fra tutte le tribù d’Israele per mettervi il suo nome. Sua madre si chiamava Naama, l’Ammonita. 22Que’ di Giuda fecero ciò ch’è male agli occhi dell’Eterno; e coi peccati che commisero provocarono l’Eterno a gelosia più di quanto avesser fatto i loro padri. 23Si eressero anch’essi degli alti luoghi con delle statue e degl’idoli d’Astarte su tutte le alte colline e sotto ogni albero verdeggiante. 24V’erano anche nel paese degli uomini che si prostituivano. Essi praticarono tutti gli atti abominevoli delle nazioni che l’Eterno avea cacciate d’innanzi ai figliuoli d’Israele. 25L’anno quinto del regno di Roboamo, Scishak, re d’Egitto, salì contro Gerusalemme, 26e portò via i tesori della casa dell’Eterno e i tesori della casa del re; portò via ogni cosa; prese pure tutti gli scudi d’oro che Salomone avea fatti; 27invece de’ quali Roboamo fece fare degli scudi di rame, e li affidò ai capitani della guardia che custodiva la porta della casa del re. 28E ogni volta che il re entrava nella casa dell’Eterno, quei della guardia li portavano; poi li riportavano nella sala della guardia. 29Il resto delle azioni di Roboamo e tutto quello ch’ei fece, sta scritto nel libro delle Cronache dei re di Giuda. 30Or vi fu guerra continua fra Roboamo e Geroboamo. 31E Roboamo s’addormentò coi suoi padri e con essi fu sepolto nella città di Davide. Sua madre si chiamava Naama, l’Ammonita. Ed Abijam, suo figliuolo, regnò in luogo suo.

1At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. 2Jeroboam said to his wife, “Please get up and disguise yourself, that you won’t be recognized as the wife of Jeroboam. Go to Shiloh. Behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who spoke concerning me that I should be king over this people. 3Take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the child.” 4Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age. 5Yahweh said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick. Thus and thus you shall tell her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman.” 6It was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, “Come in, you wife of Jeroboam! Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news. 7Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: “Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel, 8and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes, 9but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back: 10therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it is all gone. 11He who dies of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and he who dies in the field shall the birds of the sky eat: for Yahweh has spoken it.”’ 12Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child shall die. 13All Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam. 14Moreover Yahweh will raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is day! What? Even now. 15For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking Yahweh to anger. 16He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.” 17Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died. 18All Israel buried him, and mourned for him, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet. 19The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. 20The days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place. 21Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. 22Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done. 23For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherah poles, on every high hill, and under every green tree; 24and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel. 25In the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem; 26and he took away the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made. 27King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house. 28It was so, that as often as the king went into Yahweh’s house, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard room. 29Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 30There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. 31Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.

1Te dierzelfder tijd was Abia, de zoon van Jerobeam, krank. 2En Jerobeam zeide tot zijn huisvrouw: Maak u nu op, en verstel u, dat men niet merkte, dat gij Jerobeams huisvrouw zijt, en ga heen naar Silo, zie, daar is de profeet Ahia, die van mij gesproken heeft, dat ik koning zou zijn over dit volk. 3En neem in uw hand tien broden, en koeken, en een kruik honig, en ga tot hem; hij zal u te kennen geven, wat dezen jongen geschieden zal. 4En Jerobeams huisvrouw deed alzo, en maakte zich op, en ging naar Silo, en kwam in het huis van Ahia. Ahia nu kon niet zien, want zijn ogen stonden stijf vanwege zijn ouderdom. 5Maar de HEERE zeide tot Ahia: Zie, Jerobeams huisvrouw komt, om een zaak van u te vragen, aangaande haar zoon, want hij is krank; zo en zo zult gij tot haar spreken, en het zal zijn, als zij inkomt, dat zij zich vreemd aanstellen zal. 6En het geschiedde, als Ahia het geruis harer voeten hoorde, toen zij ter deure inkwam, dat hij zeide: Kom in, gij huisvrouw van Jerobeam! Waarom stelt gij u dus vreemd aan? Want ik ben tot u gezonden met een harde boodschap. 7Ga heen, zeg Jerobeam: Zo zegt de HEERE, de God Israels: Daarom, dat Ik u verheven heb uit het midden des volks, en u tot een voorganger over Mijn volk Israel gesteld heb; 8En het koninkrijk van het huis van David gescheurd, en dat u gegeven heb, en gij niet geweest zijt, gelijk Mijn knecht David, die Mijn geboden hield, en die Mij met zijn ganse hart navolgde, om te doen alleen wat recht is in Mijn ogen; 9Maar kwaad gedaan hebt, doende des meer dan allen, die voor u geweest zijn, en henengegaan zijt, en hebt u andere goden en gegotene beelden gemaakt, om Mij tot toorn te verwekken, en hebt Mij achter uw rug geworpen; 10Daarom, zie, Ik zal kwaad over het huis van Jerobeam brengen, en van Jerobeam uitroeien, wat mannelijk is, den beslotene en verlatene in Israel; en Ik zal de nakomelingen van het huis van Jerobeam wegdoen, gelijk de drek weggedaan wordt, totdat het ganselijk vergaan zij. 11Die van Jerobeam in de stad sterft, zullen de honden eten; en die in het veld sterft, zullen de vogelen des hemels eten; want de HEERE heeft het gesproken. 12Gij dan maak u op, ga naar uw huis; als uw voeten in de stad zullen gekomen zijn, zo zal het kind sterven. 13En gans Israel zal hem beklagen, en hem begraven; want deze alleen van Jerobeam zal in het graf komen, omdat in hem wat goeds voor den HEERE, den God Israels, in het huis van Jerobeam gevonden is. 14Doch de HEERE zal Zich een koning verwekken over Israel, die het huis van Jerobeam ten zelfden dage uitroeien zal; maar wat zal het ook nu zijn? 15De HEERE zal ook Israel slaan, gelijk een riet in het water omgedreven wordt, en zal Israel uitrukken uit dit goede land, dat Hij hun vaderen gegeven heeft, en zal hen verstrooien op gene zijde der rivier; daarom dat zij hun bossen gemaakt hebben, den HEERE tot toorn verwekkende. 16En Hij zal Israel overgeven, om Jerobeams zonden wil, die gezondigd heeft, en die Israel heeft doen zondigen. 17Toen maakte zich Jerobeams vrouw op, en ging heen, en kwam te Thirza; als zij nu op den dorpel van het huis kwam, zo stierf de jongeling. 18En zij begroeven hem, en gans Israel beklaagde hem; naar het woord des HEEREN, dat Hij gesproken had door den dienst van Zijn knecht Ahia, den profeet. 19Het overige nu der geschiedenissen van Jerobeam, hoe hij gekrijgd, en hoe hij geregeerd heeft, ziet, die zijn geschreven in het boek der kronieken der koningen van Israel. 20De dagen nu, die Jerobeam heeft geregeerd, zijn twee en twintig jaren; en hij ontsliep met zijn vaderen, en Nadab, zijn zoon, regeerde in zijn plaats. 21Rehabeam nu, de zoon van Salomo, regeerde in Juda; een en veertig jaren was Rehabeam oud, als hij koning werd, en regeerde zeventien jaren te Jeruzalem, in de stad, die de HEERE verkoren had uit al de stammen van Israel, om Zijn Naam daar te zetten; en de naam zijner moeder was Naama, de Ammonietische. 22En Juda deed wat kwaad was in de ogen des HEEREN, en zij verwekten Hem tot ijver, meer dan al hun vaderen gedaan hadden, met hun zonden, die zij zondigden. 23Want ook zij bouwden zich hoogten, en opgerichte beelden, en bossen, op allen hogen heuvel, en onder allen groenen boom. 24Er waren ook schandjongens in het land; zij deden naar al de gruwelen der heidenen, die de HEERE van het aangezicht der kinderen Israels uit de bezitting verdreven had. 25Het geschiedde nu in het vijfde jaar van den koning Rehabeam, dat Sisak, de koning van Egypte, optoog tegen Jeruzalem. 26En hij nam de schatten van het huis des HEEREN, en de schatten van het huis des konings weg, ja, hij nam alles weg; hij nam ook al de gouden schilden weg, die Salomo gemaakt had. 27En de koning Rehabeam maakte, in plaats van die, koperen schilden; en hij beval die onder de hand van de oversten der trawanten, die de deur van het huis des konings bewaarden. 28En het geschiedde, zo wanneer de koning in het huis des HEEREN ging, dat de trawanten dezelve droegen, en die wederbrachten in der trawanten wachtkamer. 29Het overige nu der geschiedenissen van Rehabeam, en al wat hij gedaan heeft, zijn die niet geschreven in het boek der kronieken der koningen van Juda? 30En er was krijg tussen Rehabeam en tussen Jerobeam, al hun dagen. 31En Rehabeam ontsliep met zijn vaderen, en werd begraven bij zijn vaderen in de stad Davids; en de naam zijner moeder was Naama, de Ammonietische; en zijn zoon Abiam regeerde in zijn plaats.