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This is still an early look into the drafted text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.
14 At that time, one of Yarov’am’s (Jeroboam) sons, Aviyah, became very sick 2 and Yarov’am told his wife, “Go and get changed so that no one will recognise you as my wife. Then go to Shiloh where the prophet Ahiyah is—he’s the one who prophesied that I’d become king. 3 Take ten loaves of bread and some cakes and a jar of honey to give to him. He’ll tell you what will happen to the boy.”
4 So his wife got ready and went to Ahiyah’s house at Shiloh. Ahiyah was now very elderly and not able to see, 5 but Yahweh had told him, “Listen, Yarov’am’s wife will be coming to ask for your guidance about her son, because he’s sick. I want you to tell her so-and-so. And when she comes, she won’t be dressed like a queen.”
6 So as soon as Ahiyah heard her walk through the doorway, he said, “Come in, wife of Yarov’am. Why did you get changed like that? Now I’ve been instructed to pass bad news onto you—7 go back and give Yarov’am this message from Yisrael’s (Israel) god Yahweh, ‘I chose you out from the people and placed you as a leader over my people Yisrael, 8 and I tore the kingdom away from David’s descendants and gave it to you. But you haven’t been like my servant David who obeyed my instructions and followed me with integrity—only doing what he knew that I approved of. 9 However, you’ve done more evil things than any of those who ruled before you. You’ve rejected me and made cast images of other gods, and have provoked me into anger. 10 Because of that, I’m about to bring calamity to your family: I’ll cause all your male descendants to die, either before or after they’ve left home. I’ll eliminate your family just like dried dung burns until it’s all gone.[ref] 11 The family members who die in the city will be eaten by dogs, and those who die in the countryside will be eaten by birds. All this comes from Yahweh.’
12 So go back home, but as soon as you set foot in the city, your son will die. 13 All Yisrael will mourn for him and they’ll bury him. He’ll be the only one of your children to be buried, because out of all of Yarov’am’s descendants, he’s the only one that Yisrael’s god Yahweh found good in. 14 In the future, Yahweh will appoint for himself, a king over Yisrael who will get rid of Yarov’am’s descendants—in fact it’s beginning to come about even now. 15 And Yahweh will strike Yisrael just like the reeds bend over in the swamps, and he’ll uproot Yisrael from this good soil that he gave to their ancestors and he’ll scatter them beyond the Perat (Euphrates), because they made their Asherah statues which provoked Yahweh to anger. 16 He will hand Yisrael over to their enemies because of Yarov’am’s sins and how he encouraged Yisrael to sin.”
17 So Yarov’am’s wife left and went home to Tirtsah. As she entered the doorway of their home, their son died. 18 Just as Yahweh had told them, all Yisrael mourned for the boy and he was buried.
14:2 OSHB variant note: אתי: (x-qere) ’אַ֖תְּ’: lemma=859 b n=1.0 morph=HPp2fs id=11PBZ אַ֖תְּ
19 Everything else that Yarov’am (Jeroboam) did, including the record of wars that his army fought and how he ruled, is written in the book of the events of the kings of Yisrael (Israel). 20 Yarov’am reigned for twenty-two years, then he died and was buried with his ancestors, and his son Nadav replaced him as king.
21 Meanwhile, Shelomoh’s (Solomon) son Rehav’am (Rehoboam) reigned in Yehudah (Judah). He was forty-one when he started reigning, and he reigned for seventeen years from Yerushalem (Jerusalem)—the city that Yahweh had chosen to associate his name with out of all the tribes of Yisrael (Israel). Rehav’am’s mother was Na’amah the Amoni.
22 The people of Yehudah did what Yahweh had decided was evil—in fact they made him more jealous (by worshipping other gods) than their ancestors ever had. 23 They even built hilltop temples and sacred pillars and poles on every high hill and under every large evergreen tree.[ref] 24 There were also male prostitutes associated with them,[ref] and the Israelis did the same abhorrent things as the nations that Yahweh had removed ahead of their entering the land.
25 In the fifth year of King Rehav’am’s reign, Mitsrayim’s (Egypt) King Shishak attacked Yerushalem[ref] 26 and took away the valuables from Yahweh’s temple, and the king’s palace. He took everything of value, including all the gold shields that Shelomoh had made.[ref] 27 To replace them, King Rehav’am made some bronze shields and assigned them to the officers who protect the entrance to the palace. 28 Whenever the king would enter the temple, the guards would quickly take the shields there, and when he left, they’d run them back to the palace.
29 Everything else that Rehav’am did is written in the book of the events of the kings of Yehudah. 30 Rehav’am and Yarov’am (Jeroboam) were in a continual state of war during their reigns. 31 Then Rehav’am (his mother was Na’amah the Amoni) died and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David, and his son Aviyam replaced him as king.
14:25 OSHB variant note: שושק: (x-qere) ’שִׁישַׁ֥ק’: lemma=7895 morph=HNp id=11HBS שִׁישַׁ֥ק
1 Kings 14:21-31; 2 Chronicles 11-12
At the start of his long and prosperous reign, King Solomon formed an alliance with Egypt and sealed their treaty by marrying Pharaoh’s daughter (1 Kings 3:1). While this ensured no overt military conflict between Israel and Egypt, behind the scenes Egypt was no doubt working to subtly undermine Solomon’s power, as evidenced by at least two occasions when Egypt granted asylum to Solomon’s enemies (1 Kings 11:14-40). After Solomon died, one of those enemies–Jeroboam–returned from Egypt and was made king over the northern tribes, while Solomon’s son Rehoboam continued to rule over Judah (1 Kings 12:16-20). Philistia also appears to have reestablished its independence after Solomon’s death. It must have been clear to Rehoboam that Egypt and Philistia, and perhaps Moab, could no longer be trusted as safe neighbors, because he immediately fortified a number of towns throughout Judah. Interestingly, none of these fortified towns were located between Judah and Israel. Instead, they guarded all routes leading to Jerusalem from the west, south, and southeast. In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, around 926 B.C., King Shishak of Egypt (also called Shoshenq I) launched a military campaign throughout Judah and Israel, attacking numerous towns. Shishak was of Libyan ancestry himself and was aided in his campaign by a vast army of Libyans, Sukkiim, and Cushites. He did not continue to occupy the towns of Israel and Judah, however, suggesting that his primary goal was simply to weaken both nations after the death of Solomon. Shishak recorded his campaign on sculptures in the temple of Karnak near the Egyptian capital of Thebes. Some of the towns noted in his list are difficult to identify with certainty, but those that have been somewhat firmly established are shown on this map. It should also be noted that a large portion of Shishak’s list pertaining to the Judahite towns has been severely damaged, so he likely attacked several other towns not shown on this map. The towns of Jerusalem, Libnah, and Beersheba also must have been among those missing from the Judahite list, because the Bible explicitly notes that Jerusalem was attacked (1 Kings 14:25-26; 2 Chronicles 12:9), and the destruction layers of Libnah and Beersheba suggest that Shishak had destroyed them as well. The Bible also notes that Shishak took away the treasures of the Temple and the king’s palace, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.
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