At this time, Aviyah, the son of Yerovom, became sick.

And Yerovom said to his wife, “Please get up and disguise yourself so that it be not known that you are the wife of Yerovom, and go to Shilo, for Achiyoh, the prophet is there. He is the one who spoke to me that I would be king over this people.

And take with you ten loaves of bread, biscuits and a jar of honey, and come to him. He will tell you what will be the child.”

And the wife of Yerovom did so, and she got up and went to Shilo, and came to the house of Achiyoh. Achiyoh was unable to see because his eyes were stationary due to his old age.

Adonoy had [already] spoken to Achiyoh, “Behold the wife of Yerovom is comeing to ask of you about her son, for he is sick. Say this and this to her; and when she arrives, she will be in disguise.”

And so, when Achiyoh heard the sound of her footsteps coming in the door, he said “Come in wife of Yerovom, why are you in disguise? I have been sent to tell you harsh [tidings.]

Go say to Yerovom, ‘So has spoken, Adonoy, God of Yisroel, “Since I elevated you from the midst of the people and I made you the ruler over My people, Yisroel.

And I tore away the kingdom from the House of Dovid, and gave it to you. But you have not been like My servant, Dovid, who preserved My mitzvos and who followed after Me with his whole heart to do only what was upright in My eyes.

You have done more evil than all those who were before you; and have gone and made for yourself alien gods and molten statues to anger Me; and have thrown Me behind your back.

Therefore I will bring evil to the house of Yerovom, and I will cut off from Yerovom [every] male child; any that are restrained and any that are abandoned in Yisroel. I will completely remove the house of Yerovom [from existence] as one removes dung until is completely gone.

Those of Yerovom that die in the city will be consumed by dogs, and those who die in the field will be consumed by the birds of the sky; for Adonoy has spoken.’”

And now, get up and go to your house; as [soon] as your feet come to the city, the boy will die.

All of Yisroel will eulogise him, and they will bury him, for only he of Yerovom will be buried in a grave for in him alone was found something good in behalf of Adonoy, God of Yisroel, from the house of Yerovom.

And Adonoy will raise for Himself a king over Yisroel who will cut off the house of Yerovom this day, and also those that will be born.

And Adonoy will strike Yisroel [so that it will be] like a reed that sways in water. He will uproot Yisroel from this good land that He gave to their fathers, and He will scatter them across the river, because they made their trees of idol worship that bring Adonoy to anger.

He will hand over Yisroel [to punishment] because of sin of Yerovom, who sinned and caused Yisroel to sin.”

And the wife of Yerovom got up and she travelled and came to Tirtzah. She stepped on the doorstep of the house, and the boy died.

They buried him and all of Yisroel eulogized him, as was the word of Adonoy that He had spoken by the hand of his servant, Achiyohu, the prophet.

The rest of the events of Yerovom, how he fought and how he reigned, they are recorded in the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Yisroel.

And the days that Yerovom reigned were twenty two years; and he slept with his fathers, and his son, Nadav reigned in his place.

And Rechavom, the son of Shlomo reigned in Yehuda. Rechavom was forty one years old when he became king, and for seventeen years he reigned in Yerushalayim; the city that Adonoy had chosen to place His Name there from among all the tribes of Yisroel. His mother’s name was Naamoh, the Ammonite.

And Yehudah did what was evil in the eyes of Adonoy; and they angered Him more than their fathers did, with the sins that they sinned.

They too built for themselves altars and statues and trees for worship on every high hill and under every flourishing tree.

There was also prostitution in the land; they did the same as all the abominations of the nations that Adonoy had driven out from before the Bnei Yisroel.

And it was in the fifth year [of the reign] of king Rechavom, that Shishak, the king of Egypt, went up against Yerushlayim.

And he captured the treasures of the House of Adonoy and the treasures of the house of the king. He took everything; and he took all the golden shields that Shlomo had made.

King Rechavom made copper shields instead of them; and he made them the responsibility of the officers of the runners, who guarded the entrance of the kings house.

And whenever the king went to the House of Adonoy, the runners would carry them and then return them to the room of the runners.

The rest of the events of Rechavom, and all that he did; they are recorded in the Book of Chronicles of the kings of Yehudah.

There was war between Rechavom and Yerovom all the days.

And Rechavom slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of Dovid. His mother’s name was Naamoh the Ammonite. His son Aviyom reigned in his place.