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I Kings Chapter 14

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I Kings

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In this chapter Solomon seeks counsel from many prophets and receives a great number of opinions before deciding which city shall host his temple. He ultimately chooses Jerusalem and begins the construction of the house of the Lord. The chapter highlights the importance of seeking wise counsel and the foundation of the temple as a symbol of God's presence.

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(1) At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
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I Kings 13:33I Kings 13:34I Kings 14:12I Kings 14:13Exodus 20:5I Samuel 4:19I Samuel 4:20I Samuel 31:2II Samuel 12:15

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Judges 5:27I Kings 14:10

(2) And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.
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I Kings 14:5I Kings 14:6I Kings 22:30I Samuel 28:8II Samuel 14:2II Chronicles 18:29Luke 12:2I Kings 11:29I Kings 11:30I Kings 11:31I Kings 11:32I Kings 11:33

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I Kings 14:10I Kings 15:29I Kings 11:29II Chronicles 9:29I Kings 11:40I Kings 12:2

(3) And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.
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I Kings 13:7I Samuel 9:7I Samuel 9:8II Kings 4:42II Kings 5:5II Kings 5:15II Kings 8:7II Kings 8:8II Kings 8:9II Kings 1:2Luke 7:2Luke 7:3

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II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11II Kings 4:34

(4) And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
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I Kings 11:29Joshua 18:1I Samuel 4:3I Samuel 4:4Jeremiah 7:12Jeremiah 7:13Jeremiah 7:14Genesis 27:1Genesis 48:10Deuteronomy 34:7I Samuel 3:2I Samuel 4:15

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I Kings 14:2

(5) And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.
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II Kings 4:27II Kings 6:8II Kings 6:9II Kings 6:10II Kings 6:11II Kings 6:12Psalms 139:1Psalms 139:2Psalms 139:3Psalms 139:4Proverbs 21:30Amos 3:7

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Proverbs 1:27II Kings 11:8II Chronicles 23:7Job 20:25Psalms 96:13Proverbs 11:2

(6) And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.
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Job 5:13Psalms 33:10I Kings 14:2I Kings 14:5Ezekiel 14:3Ezekiel 14:4Ezekiel 14:5Ezekiel 14:7Ezekiel 14:8Luke 20:20Luke 20:21Luke 20:22

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II Kings 6:32I Samuel 1:8Ezekiel 41:3Isaiah 52:7Ezekiel 1:7Luke 7:38

(7) Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,
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I Kings 12:24I Kings 16:2I Samuel 2:27I Samuel 2:28I Samuel 2:29I Samuel 2:30I Samuel 15:16II Samuel 12:7II Samuel 12:8

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I Kings 16:2I Kings 14:10

(8) And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes;
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I Kings 11:30I Kings 11:31I Kings 3:14I Kings 11:33I Kings 11:34I Kings 11:35I Kings 11:36I Kings 11:37I Kings 11:38I Kings 15:5II Chronicles 17:3II Chronicles 28:1

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John 15:10

(9) But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
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I Kings 14:16I Kings 12:28I Kings 13:33I Kings 13:34I Kings 15:34I Kings 16:31Deuteronomy 32:16Deuteronomy 32:17Deuteronomy 32:21Judges 5:8II Chronicles 11:15Psalms 106:19

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II Chronicles 34:4Judges 10:6Isaiah 42:17Nehemiah 12:39Psalms 97:9John 3:31

(10) Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
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I Kings 15:25I Kings 15:26I Kings 15:27I Kings 15:28I Kings 15:29I Kings 15:30Amos 3:6I Kings 16:11I Kings 21:21I Samuel 25:22I Samuel 25:34II Kings 9:8

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I Kings 11:40I Kings 12:2I Kings 14:2I Kings 14:13I Kings 15:29II Kings 17:21

(11) Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it.
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I Kings 16:4I Kings 21:19I Kings 21:23I Kings 21:24Isaiah 66:24Jeremiah 15:3Ezekiel 39:17Ezekiel 39:18Ezekiel 39:19Revelation 19:17Revelation 19:18

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I Kings 21:24I Kings 16:4Ecclesiastes 3:19I Samuel 17:44Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:25

(12) Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
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I Kings 14:3I Kings 14:16I Kings 14:17II Kings 1:6II Kings 1:16John 4:50John 4:51John 4:52

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II Kings 7:4II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11II Chronicles 25:4Jonah 4:8Romans 14:8

(13) And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
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Numbers 20:29Jeremiah 22:10Jeremiah 22:18II Chronicles 12:12II Chronicles 19:3Job 19:28Ezekiel 18:14Ezekiel 18:15Ezekiel 18:16Ezekiel 18:17Ezekiel 18:18Ezekiel 18:19

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I Kings 14:10I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:17Zechariah 14:4

(14) Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.
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I Kings 15:27I Kings 15:28I Kings 15:29Ecclesiastes 8:11Ezekiel 7:2Ezekiel 7:3Ezekiel 7:4Ezekiel 7:5Ezekiel 7:6Ezekiel 7:7Ezekiel 12:22Ezekiel 12:23

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I Kings 14:10

(15) For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
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I Samuel 12:25II Kings 17:6II Kings 17:7Matthew 11:7Luke 7:24Deuteronomy 29:28Psalms 52:5Proverbs 2:22Amos 2:9Zephaniah 2:4Matthew 15:13Leviticus 26:32

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Ezra 6:6Genesis 15:18Exodus 7:18Exodus 7:21Joshua 12:2Joshua 17:9

(16) And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
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Psalms 81:12Isaiah 40:24Hosea 9:11Hosea 9:12Hosea 9:16Hosea 9:17I Kings 12:30I Kings 13:34I Kings 15:30I Kings 15:34I Kings 16:2Exodus 32:21

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I Kings 14:10

(17) And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
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I Kings 15:21I Kings 15:33I Kings 16:6I Kings 16:8I Kings 16:9I Kings 16:15I Kings 16:23Joshua 12:24Song of Solomon 6:4I Kings 14:12I Kings 14:13I Samuel 2:20

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II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11Ezekiel 41:3II Kings 4:34Matthew 2:13Matthew 2:14

(18) And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.
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Genesis 49:31Jeremiah 28:9Jeremiah 28:12

(19) And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
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I Kings 14:30II Chronicles 13:2II Chronicles 13:3II Chronicles 13:4II Chronicles 13:5II Chronicles 13:6II Chronicles 13:7II Chronicles 13:8II Chronicles 13:9II Chronicles 13:10II Chronicles 13:11II Chronicles 13:12

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II Kings 14:28I Kings 15:7I Kings 22:45I Kings 11:41I Kings 14:29I Kings 15:23

(20) And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
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I Kings 2:10I Kings 11:43Job 14:12Psalms 3:5Psalms 4:8I Kings 15:25I Kings 15:26I Kings 15:27I Kings 15:28I Kings 15:29I Kings 15:30I Kings 15:31

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I Kings 2:11I Chronicles 29:27II Kings 14:16II Kings 14:29II Chronicles 20:31I Kings 11:43

(21) And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
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I Kings 11:43II Chronicles 12:13II Chronicles 13:7I Kings 8:16I Kings 8:44I Kings 11:36Psalms 78:68Psalms 78:69Psalms 87:1Psalms 87:2Psalms 132:13Psalms 132:14

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II Chronicles 12:13I Kings 14:31II Chronicles 20:31I Kings 2:11I Chronicles 29:27II Kings 12:1

(22) And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
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Judges 3:7Judges 3:12Judges 4:1II Kings 17:19II Chronicles 12:1Jeremiah 3:7Jeremiah 3:8Jeremiah 3:9Jeremiah 3:10Jeremiah 3:11I Kings 14:9Deuteronomy 4:24

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Nehemiah 12:39John 3:31Deuteronomy 32:16Deuteronomy 32:21

(23) For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
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I Kings 3:2Deuteronomy 12:2Isaiah 57:5Ezekiel 16:24Ezekiel 16:25Ezekiel 20:28Ezekiel 20:29Leviticus 26:1Micah 5:14II Kings 17:9II Kings 17:10II Kings 21:3

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II Kings 17:10Ezekiel 17:24I Kings 16:24II Chronicles 33:19Isaiah 41:19Joel 1:12

(24) And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
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I Kings 15:12I Kings 22:46Genesis 19:5Deuteronomy 23:17Judges 19:22II Kings 23:7Romans 1:24Romans 1:25Romans 1:26Romans 1:27I Corinthians 6:9

(25) And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
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I Kings 11:40II Chronicles 12:2II Chronicles 12:3II Chronicles 12:4

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II Chronicles 12:2II Chronicles 12:5

(26) And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
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I Kings 7:51I Kings 15:18II Kings 24:13II Chronicles 12:9II Chronicles 12:10II Chronicles 12:11Psalms 39:6Psalms 89:35Psalms 89:36Psalms 89:37Psalms 89:38Psalms 89:39

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II Chronicles 12:9II Kings 24:13I Kings 15:18Esther 8:8I Kings 7:51I Chronicles 26:20

(27) And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house.
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Lamentations 4:1Lamentations 4:2I Kings 14:1I Kings 14:5I Kings 18:46I Samuel 8:11I Samuel 22:17II Samuel 15:1

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II Chronicles 12:10Esther 2:21Esther 8:8Exodus 38:30Ezekiel 41:3John 18:16

(28) And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.
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II Chronicles 12:11

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II Chronicles 12:11Jeremiah 40:5II Kings 10:25II Kings 11:19Jeremiah 35:4

(29) Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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I Kings 14:19I Kings 11:41I Kings 15:23I Kings 22:45II Chronicles 12:15

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I Kings 11:41I Kings 14:19I Kings 15:7I Kings 15:23I Kings 15:31I Kings 16:5

(30) And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
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I Kings 12:24I Kings 15:6I Kings 15:7II Chronicles 12:15

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I Kings 15:6I Kings 14:10II Chronicles 12:15

(31) And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
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I Kings 14:20I Kings 11:43I Kings 15:3I Kings 15:24I Kings 22:50II Chronicles 12:16I Kings 14:21Matthew 1:7

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