2-3. Jeroboam told his wife:Disguise yourself so no one will know you're my wife, then go to Shiloh, where the prophet Ahijah lives. Take him ten loaves of bread, some small cakes, and honey, and ask him what will happen to our son. He can tell you, because he's the one who told me I would become king.
15. The people of Israel have made the Lord angry by setting up sacred poles for worshipping the goddess Asherah. So the Lord will punish them until they shake like grass in a stream. He will take them out of the land he gave to their ancestors, then scatter them as far away as the River Euphrates.
16. Jeroboam sinned and caused the Israelites to sin. Now the Lord will desert Israel.
17. Jeroboam's wife left and went back home to the town of Tirzah. As soon as she set foot in her house, her son died.
18. Everyone in Israel came and mourned at his funeral, just as the Lord's servant Ahijah had said.
19. Everything else Jeroboam did while he was king, including the battles he won, is written in The History of the Kings of Israel.
20. He was king of Israel for twenty-two years, then he died, and his son Nadab became king.