8. I even took David's kingdom away from his family and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David. He always obeyed me and did what was right.
9. “You have made me very angry by rejecting me and making idols out of gold. Jeroboam, you have done more evil things than any king before you.
10. “Because of this, I will destroy your family by killing every man and boy in it, whether slave or free. I will wipe out your family, just as fire burns up rubbish.
11. Dogs will eat the bodies of your relatives who die in town, and vultures will eat the bodies of those who die in the country. I, the Lord, have spoken and will not change my mind!”
12. That's the Lord's message to your husband. As for you, go back home, and straight after you get there, your son will die.
13. Everyone in Israel will mourn at his funeral. But he will be the last one from Jeroboam's family to receive a proper burial, because he's the only one the Lord God of Israel is pleased with.
14. The Lord will soon choose a new king of Israel, who will destroy Jeroboam's family. And I mean very soon.
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.
21. Rehoboam son of Solomon was forty-one years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled seventeen years from Jerusalem, the city where the Lord had chosen to be worshipped. His mother Naamah was from Ammon.