Judgment on the House of Jeroboam

14 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.

¹² Arise therefore, go to your own house. ^(A)When your feet enter the city, the child shall die. ¹³ And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he is the only one of Jeroboam who shall ^[a]come to the grave, because in him ^(B)there is found something good toward the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

^33 (A)After this event Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but again he made priests from every class of people for the high places; whoever wished, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places. ^34 (B)And this thing was the sin of the house of Jeroboam, so as ^(C)to exterminate and destroy it from the face of the earth.

¹⁵ Then Nathan departed to his house.

The Death of David’s Son

And the ^(A)Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and it became ill.

² Then the Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons. And the Philistines killed ^(A)Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul’s sons.

Ichabod

¹⁹ Now his daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, due to be delivered; and when she heard the news that the ark of God was captured, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth, for her labor pains came upon her. ²⁰ And about the time of her death ^(A)the women who stood by her said to her, “Do not fear, for you have borne a son.” But she did not answer, nor did she ^[a]regard it.