you also have done more evil than all who were before you, and (A)you have gone and made for yourself other gods and (B)cast metal images to provoke Me to anger, and have (C)thrown Me behind your back— 10 therefore behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam, and (D)I will eliminate from Jeroboam [a]every male person, (E)both [b]bond and free in Israel, and I (F)will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, just 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 anyone who dies in the field, the birds of the sky 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 Then all Israel will mourn for him and bury him, for [c]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 eliminate the house of Jeroboam this day [d]and from now on.

15 “For the Lord will strike Israel, just as a reed sways 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 [e]Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger. 16 He will give up Israel (O)because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he [f]committed and with which he misled Israel into sin.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 14:10 Lit him who urinates against the wall
  2. 1 Kings 14:10 Or children and adults in
  3. 1 Kings 14:13 Lit this one
  4. 1 Kings 14:14 Lit and what even now?
  5. 1 Kings 14:15 I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)
  6. 1 Kings 14:16 Lit sinned

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