Translation, 1 Kings 14
In that time became ill Aviyyah, son of Yarav?am. And said Yarav?am to his wife, ?Arise, please, And change yourself And they will not know that you [are] the wife of Yarav?am And walk/go to Shiloh. Behold there [is] Achiyyah the prophet He himself spoke concerning me as king over this people. And take in your hand ten bread and crumb-cake and a jar of honey. And enter to him. He himself will announce to you what will be to the lad.?E And she did thus, the wife of Yarav?am, And she arose and went to Shiloh And she entered to the house of Achiyyah.
Now Achiyyahu was not able to see, for his eyes arose from his gray-headedness.
Now Yahweh said to Ahiyyahu, ?Behold the wife of Yarav?am is entering to seek a word from you to her son For he himself is ill. According to this and according to this you shall speak to her. And it will be according to her coming Ad she herself will disguise herself.?E And it was according to the hearing of Achiyyahu the voice of her feet entering in the entrance And he said, ?Enter, wife of Yarav?am. Why is this disguising yourself? And I myself have been sent to you [with] a hard [thing]. Go, say to Yarav?am, thus says Yahweh, God of Israel, ?Because I cause you to rise from the midst of the people And I gave you [as] announced-one over My people Israel, And I tore the kingdom from the house of David And I gave her to you But you were not according to My servant David Who guarded My commandments and who walked after Me in all His heart To do only the right in My eyes. And you are useless to do from all which were before you And you walk and you made for yourselves gods, others, And cast images to cause me to become angry. But Me you have thrown after behind you. Therefore, behold, I am causing evil to enter to the house of Yarav?am And I will cut off to Yarav?am the one who pisses on the wall, The one-bound and the one-abandoned in Israel And I will burns after the house of Yarav?am just as one burns the s*** Until its completion. The ones who die to Yarav?am in the city, the dogs shall eat And the ones who die in the field the birds of the heavens shall eat. For Yahweh has spoken.?E Now you, arise, walk/go to your house. In the entering of your feet of the city, and the child shall die. And they shall beat the breast for him, all Israel And they shall bury him For this one alone shall enter to Yarav?am to the grave Because a good thing was found in him to Yahweh God of Israel in the house of Yarav?am. And Yahweh will cause to rise for himself a king over Israel Who will cut off the house of Yarav?am This day, and what even now? Now Yahweh will strike Israel just as a reed in shake in the water And He will uproot Israel from off the earth, this good, Which He gave to your fathers And He will scatter them from over to the river Because they did/made their Asherym causing Yahweh anger. And he will give Israel on account of the sins of Yarav?am Which he sinned And which he caused Israel to sin.?E And she arose, the wife of Yarav?am, And went/walked and entered Tirzatah. She herself entered in the threshold of the house And the lad died. And they buried him And the beat the bread for him, all Israel According to the word of Yahweh which He spoke by the hand of His servant Achiyyahu the prophet. Now the remnant of the things/words of Yarav?am which he warred and which he reigned-as-king Behold things written in the book of the things/words of the days to the kings of Israel. And the days which reigned-as-king Yarav?am, twenty-two years. And he slept with his fathers. And reigned-as-king Nadab his son after him.
Now Rechav?am, son of Shlomoh, reigned-as-king in Yehudah. A son of forty-and-one years [was] Rechav?am in his reigning-as-king. And seven-and-ten years he reigned-as-king in Yerushalaim, The city which Yahweh chose to set His name there from all the tribes of Israel. Now the name of his mother, Na?amah the Ammoniyt. And did Yehudah the evil in the eyes of Yahweh And Him they aroused?to-jealousy from all which their fathers did In their sins which they sinned. And they built also for themselves high places and pillars and Asherim On every high hill and under every leafy tree. Now also sacred ones were in the land. He made according to all the abominations of the nations Which Yahweh drove out before the face of the sons of Israel. And it was in the fifth year to king Rechav?am Ascended Shiwshaq, king of Mizraim, upon Yerushalaim And he took the stored-things of the house of Yahweh and the stored-things of the house of the king And all he took And he took all the shields of gold which Shlomoh made. And made the king Rechav?am in their places shields of bronce And he entrusted them into the hand of the princes of the runner Who guarded the opening of the house of the king. And it was as often as [there was an] entering of the king [to] the house of Yahweh The runners lifted them and would cause them to return to the room of the runners.
Now the remnant of the things/words of Rechav?am and all which he did Are they not things-written on the books of the words/things of the days to the kingdom of Yehudah. Now war was between Rechav?am and between Yarav?am all the days. And slept Rechav?am with his fathers. And they buried with his fathers in the city of David. Now the name of his mother, Naa?mah the Ammoniyt. And reigned-as-king his son in his place.
Peter Leithart
Peter J. Leithart is President of Theopolis Institute. He is the author of numerous books on theology, literature, and culture, including Theopolitan, Defending Constantine, and Baptized Body.
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