Add parallel Print Page Options

15 Yahweh will strike Israel as one shakes the reed plant in the water, and he will root Israel up from this good land that he gave to their ancestors.[a] He will scatter them beyond the River[b] because they have made their sacred poles which are provoking Yahweh. 16 He will give up Israel because of the sin of Jeroboam which he sinned and which he caused Israel to sin.”

17 Then the wife of Jeroboam got up, went, and came to Tirzah. As she was coming to the threshold of the house, the boy died.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 14:15 Or “fathers”
  2. 1 Kings 14:15 That is, the Euphrates