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1 Kings 14

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When Jeroboam’s son Abijah becomes sick, Jeroboam sends his disguised wife to the aged prophet Ahijah. Though blind, Ahijah knows who she is and announces judgment on Jeroboam’s house. The child will die, though he alone in the house is said to have something good toward the LORD. The chapter then turns south: Judah practices idolatry under Rehoboam, Shishak of Egypt plunders temple and royal treasures, and Rehoboam dies.

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Before you read 1 Kings 14

Coming from

Chapter 13 showed Jeroboam refusing to turn even after prophecy, signs, and judgment.

In this chapter

Judgment moves from Jeroboam’s altar to his dynasty, while Judah is shown to be corrupt as well.

Leads into

Chapter 15 traces the next kings of Judah and Israel, including Asa’s reforms and Baasha’s destruction of Jeroboam’s house.

Key understandingExplore deeper

Disguise cannot hide Jeroboam’s wife from God’s prophet. The child Abijah is distinguished positively from the rest of Jeroboam’s house, yet he still dies temporally—an important warning against equating physical judgment or early death automatically with eternal condemnation.

Major truths in this chapterExplore deeper

Truth 1

Jeroboam wants prophetic help in crisis while trying to conceal himself.

Truth 2

The child’s death occurs in dynastic judgment even though the text says something good was found in him toward the LORD.

Truth 3

Jerusalem and the temple do not protect Judah from idolatry or humiliation.

Truth 4

Both kingdoms are evaluated by covenant faithfulness, not political identity alone.

Connections to the rest of ScriptureExplore deeper

Connection 1

First Kings 11 records Ahijah’s original promise and warning to Jeroboam.

Connection 2

Second Chronicles 12 adds Rehoboam’s humbling during Shishak’s invasion.

Connection 3

Deuteronomy 28 provides the covenant framework for defeat and loss.

What is clear, and where care is neededExplore deeper

Keep this clear 1

Do not assume Abijah’s death means he was eternally lost; the text distinguishes him positively.

Keep this clear 2

A preserved Davidic lamp does not mean every Davidic king is righteous.

Keep this clear 3

Do not make Ahijah’s physical blindness symbolize spiritual blindness; the story shows the opposite.

Read 1 Kings 14 watching for…

Why Jeroboam sends his wife in disguise.

How Ahijah identifies her.

The child’s distinction from the rest of the house.

The sins attributed to Judah.

What Shishak removes from Jerusalem.

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Chapter outline6 sections
1-6Jeroboam sends his wife to Ahijah concerning their sick son7-16Ahijah announces judgment upon Jeroboam’s house and Israel17-20The child dies, and Jeroboam later dies21-24Rehoboam reigns while Judah does evil25-28Shishak takes the treasures of Jerusalem29-31Rehoboam dies, and Abijam reigns
1

At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

2

And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.

3

And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.

4

And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

5

And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.

6

And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.

7

Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,

8

And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast 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 mine eyes;

9

But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

10

Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.

11

Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it.

12

Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.

13

And all 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 the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

14

Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.

15

For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.

16

And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.

17

And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;

18

And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.

19

And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

20

And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.

21

And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.

22

And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.

23

For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

24

And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

25

And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:

26

And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, 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.

27

And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house.

28

And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.

29

Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

30

And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

31

And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.

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