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14 At that time, Abijah, the son of Jeroboam, fell sick.
2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Up, please, and disguise yourself, so that they do not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam. And go to Shiloh. For Ahijah the Prophet is there, who told me that I would be king over this people.
3 “And take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and a bottle of honey, and go to him. He shall tell you what shall become of the young man.”
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 sight was decayed because of his age.
5 Then the LORD said to Ahijah: “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to ask something of you for her son, for he is sick. (Thus and thus) shall you say to her when she comes in. She shall pretend to be another.”
6 Therefore, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be another? I am sent to you with heavy tidings.
7 “Go tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the LORD God of Israel: “Because I have exalted you among the people, and have made you prince over My people Israel,
8 “and have torn the kingdom away from the House of David and have given it to you. And you have not been as My servant David, who kept My Commandments and followed Me with all his heart and did only that which was right in My Eyes,
9 “but have done evil above all who were before you (for you have gone and made yourself other gods and molten images, to provoke Me, and have cast Me behind your back),
10 “therefore behold, I will bring evil upon the House of Jeroboam, and will cut off every male from Jeroboam, as well him who is shut up, as him who is left in Israel, and will sweep away the remnant of the House of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung until it is all gone.
11 “The dogs shall eat him of Jeroboam who dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat him who dies in the field. For the LORD has said it.”’
12 “Up, therefore, and get to your house! For when your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
13 “And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him. For only he of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some goodness toward the LORD God of Israel in the House of Jeroboam.
14 “Moreover, the LORD shall stir himself up a king over Israel, who shall destroy the House of Jeroboam on that day. What? Yea, even now!
15 “For the LORD shall strike Israel, as when a reed is shaken in the water. And He shall weed Israel out of this good land which He gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made themselves groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
16 “And He shall give Israel up, because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned and made Israel sin.”
17 And Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed and came to Tirzah. And when she came to the threshold of the house, the young man died.
18 And they buried him. And all Israel lamented him, according to the Word of the LORD which He spoke by the hand of his servant, Ahijah the Prophet.
19 And the rest of Jeroboam’s acts, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty-two years. And he slept with his fathers. And Nadab, his son, reigned in his place.
21 Also Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD chose out of all the tribes of Israel to put His Name. And his mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonite.
22 And Judah worked wickedness in the sight of the LORD. And they provoked Him more with their sins which they had committed than all that which their fathers had done.
23 For they also made themselves high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
24 There were also Sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD has cast out before the children of Israel.
25 And in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem
26 and took the treasures from the House of the LORD, and the treasures from the king’s house, and took it all away. So, he carried away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
27 And King Rehoboam made bronze shields for them and committed them into the hands of the chief of the guard, who waited at the door of the king’s house.
28 And when the king went into the House of the LORD, the guard bore them and brought them back into the guard chamber.
29 And 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?
30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. His mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonite. And Abijam, his son, reigned in his place.
15 And Abijam reigned over Judah in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.
2 He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him. And his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
4 But for David’s sake, the LORD his God gave him a light in Jerusalem, and set up his son after him, and established Jerusalem,
5 because David did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and turned from nothing that He Commanded him, all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam as long as he lived.
7 Also, the rest of the acts of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? There was also war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
8 And Abijam slept with his fathers. And they buried him in the City of David. And Asa, his son, reigned in his place.
9 And during the twenty years of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Asa reigned over Judah.
10 He reigned in Jerusalem for forty-one years. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
11 And Asa did right in the Eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.
12 And he took away the Sodomites from the land and put away all the idols that his fathers had made.
13 And he also put down Maachah, his mother, from her estate, because she had made an idol in a grove. And Asa destroyed her idols and burnt them by the brook Kidron.
14 But they did not pull down the high places. Nevertheless, Asa’s heart was upright with the LORD, all his days.
15 Also, he brought in the holy vessels of his father, and the things that he had dedicated to the House of the LORD, silver and gold and vessels.
16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.
17 Then Baasha, king of Israel, went up against Judah and built Ramah, so that he could let no one go out or in to Asa, king of Judah.
18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that was left in the treasures of the House of the LORD, and the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered them into the hands of his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Aram, who dwelt in Damascus, saying,
19 “A covenant between me and you, and between my father and your father! Behold, I have sent a present of silver and gold to you. Come. Break your covenant with Baasha, king of Israel, so that he may depart from me.”
20 So, Ben-Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the captains of the armies which he had against the cities of Israel and struck Ijon and Dan and Abel Beth Maachah and all Chinneroth, along with all the land of Naphtali.
21 And when Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah and dwelt in Tirzah.
22 Then, King Asa assembled all Judah. No exceptions. And they took the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had built. And King Asa built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah with them.
23 And the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But in his old age, he was diseased in his feet.
24 And Asa slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the City of David, his father. And Jehoshaphat, his son, reigned in his place.
10 Furthermore, there was a certain man in Caesarea named Cornelius - a captain of the band called the ‘Italian’ -
2 a devout man, and one who feared God with all his household, who gave many alms to the people, and prayed to God continually.
3 Evidently, he saw an angel of God in a vision (about the ninth hour of the day) coming in to him and saying, “Cornelius.”
4 But when he looked at him, he was afraid, and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have come up in remembrance before God.
5 “Now, therefore, send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter.
6 “He lodges with one Simon, a Tanner, whose house is by the seaside. He shall tell you what you ought to do.”
7 And when the angel who spoke to Cornelius had departed, he called two of his servants and a God-fearing soldier (one of those who waited on him continually).
8 And he told them all things and sent them to Joppa.
9 The next day, about the sixth hour, as they went on their journey and drew near to the city, Peter went up on the house to pray.
10 Then he became hungry and wished to eat. But while they prepared it, he fell into a trance.
11 And he saw the sky opened. And a certain vessel came down to him, like a great sheet, tied at the four corners, and being let down to the Earth.
12 Inside were all kinds of four-footed beasts of the Earth, and wild beasts and creeping things, and birds of the heaven.
13 And there came a voice to him, “Arise, Peter. Kill, and eat.”
14 But Peter said, “Not so, Lord. For I have never eaten anything that is polluted or unclean.”
15 And the voice spoke to him again a second time, “The things which God has cleansed, do not make common.”
16 This was done three times. And the vessel was drawn up again into Heaven.
17 Now, while Peter questioned in himself what this vision which he had seen meant, behold the men who were sent from Cornelius had inquired after Simon’s house, and stood at the gate,
18 calling and asking whether Simon (who was surnamed Peter) was lodged there.
19 And while Peter thought about the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men seek you.
20 “Therefore, rise up. And get down. And go with them. And doubt nothing. For I have sent them.”
21 Then Peter went down to the men who had been sent to him from Cornelius, and said, “Behold, I am he whom you seek. Why have you come?”
22 And they said, “Cornelius the Captain - a just man, and one who fears God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews - was warned from Heaven by a holy angel to summon you to his house, and to hear your words.”
23 Then he called them in and lodged them. And the next day, Peter went with them, and some brothers from Joppa accompanied him.
133 Behold, how good and how pleasant a thing it is for brothers to dwell together.
2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, which runs down upon the beard (even to Aaron’s beard, which went down on the border of his garments)
3 as the dew of Hermon which falls upon the mountains of Zion; for there the LORD appointed the blessing and life forever. A song of degrees
7 High talk does not become a fool; much less lying lips, a prince.
8 A reward is as a stone, pleasant in the eyes of those who have it. It prospers, wherever it turns.
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