you also have done more evil than all who were before you, and (A)have gone and made for yourself other gods and (B)molten images to provoke Me to anger, and have (C)cast Me behind your back— 10 therefore behold, I am bringing calamity on the house of Jeroboam, and (D)will cut off from Jeroboam [a]every male person, (E)both bond and free in Israel, and I (F)will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone. 11 (G)Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs will eat. And he who dies in the field the birds of the heavens will eat; for the Lord has spoken it.”’ 12 Now you, arise, go to your house. (H)When your feet enter the city the child will die. 13 All Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for [b]he alone of Jeroboam’s family will come to the grave, because in him (I)something good was found toward the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam. 14 Moreover, (J)the Lord will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam this day [c]and from now on.

15 “For the Lord will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and (K)He will uproot Israel from (L)this good land which He gave to their fathers, and (M)will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, (N)because they have made their [d]Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger. 16 He will give up Israel (O)on account of the sins of Jeroboam, which he [e]committed and with which he made Israel to sin.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 14:10 Lit him who urinates against the wall
  2. 1 Kings 14:13 Lit the one
  3. 1 Kings 14:14 Lit and what even now?
  4. 1 Kings 14:15 I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity
  5. 1 Kings 14:16 Lit sinned