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13 Everyone in Israel will mourn for him and will bury him, because he alone from Jeroboam’s family will receive a decent burial, because something good was observed in him with respect to the Lord God of Israel out of all the household of Jeroboam!

14 “In addition to this, the Lord will raise up for himself a king over Israel who will eliminate Jeroboam’s dynasty, starting today and from now on. 15 The Lord will attack Israel, and Israel will shake like a reed shakes in a river current! He will uproot Israel from this good land that he gave to their ancestors and he will scatter them beyond the Euphrates[a] River, because they erected their Asherim[b] and provoked the Lord to become angry!

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 14:15 The Heb. lacks Euphrates
  2. 1 Kings 14:15 I.e. cultic pillars erected in worship to Canaanite deities