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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! 16 He will give up Israel because of Jeroboam’s sins that he committed and by which Jeroboam[c] caused Israel to sin.”

17 Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and left for Tirzah. As soon as she set foot over the threshold of the house, the child died.

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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
  3. 1 Kings 14:16 Lit. he