I Kings - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 363
The History of the People of Israel
The wife of jerabam has come to inquire about her sou from you,———for he is sick,-—answer ber so and s0,——f0r when she arrives she So when Akhiah heard the sound of her steps coming to the door he said, Come in, wife of jerabaml Why
make yourself thus like a stranger? However, I will explain your di$culty. l`hus asks the Evan-·r.1v11~1c; Gor: of Israel! Answer Him.-When I raised you from among the People, and ap- pointed you a leader over My People Israel, and tore the kingship from the house of David, and gave it to you,——when you were nothing except ' an o&icer of David, who kept My Commands, who walked after Me with all his heart, doing what was right in My sight,··-whilst you have done wrong in everything which has come before you; and you have gone and made for yourself other gods,and metal images to insult Me,-··—but have cast Me behind your back. Therefore I will bring evil on the House of jerabam, and I will cut off from jerabam the pisser again-st the private wall, and he shall be forsaken in Israel,·——and I will burn the House of jerabam as dung is burnt to destroy it. The dogs shall eat the dead of jerabam in the city, and the birds of the sky shall eat them in the fields, for the Evan~r.1v1x~rc has said it. But you I Arise! Go to your home, while your feet go to the city the
lad shall die. But all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him. He alone of jerabam shall come to the tomb, because there was found in him something good by the Evmv LIVING Gon of Israel among those of the house of jerabamr And the Evan—1.1vmo will raise up for him» self a king over Israel who will destroy the House of jerabam from this day. But what? Even now} Yes! the Evzranxvxnc strikes Israel as a reed is shaken by the waters, and will pull Israel up from this beautiful countrwhich He ave t y %o their fathers, and scatter them eyond the River. because they have made shrines! to insult the EvaR~1.1v1nG.
were in reality
brothels for prostitutes, erected in heathen And He will make fugitives of Israel for the sin of jerabam that he sinned, and which he induced all Israel to Then the wife of jerabam arose
and departed, and came to Thirtzath, but when she came to the threshold of the house, the youth died. And they buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, as the Evmz·L1vING commanded when He spoke by the means of Akhiah the Reciter, His servant. The rest of the doings of jerabam,
how he warred, and how he reigned, they are written in the records ofthe events of the times of the kings of Israel. But the periodthat jerabam reigned was twenty·two years, when he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son succeeded him. 16 18 (B·°· 975·) Bisinrg nf iizlynlmmg Rekhabam, the son of Solomon,
however, reigned injudah. Rekhabam was forty-one years of age when elected king, and he reigned seven·4 teen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Evan·r.1vr1~:<; has chosen from all the tribes of Israel to place His Name in, and his mother’s namewas Namah an Amonitess. But Judah did wrong in the sight of
the Evan-1.1v1no,and offended him more than all their ancestors with the sins that they sinned; for they also built for themselves Columns, and Pillars, and Shrines, on every high hill, and under every leafy tree. And there were Sodomites in the country; and they practised all the abomina- tions of the heathen whom the EvER· LIVING had driven out before the children of Israel. Consequently in the nfteenth year of the reign of Rekhabam, Shishak, King of the Mitzerairn, advanced against ]erusa~ lem, and took the treasures of the House of the Evan·t.1v1No,and the s palace, all that was seizable, with all the golden shields that Solomon had made. But King Rekhabam made shields of
brass in theirplace, and put them into the hands of the generals of the infantry who kept guard at the door of the Palace. When the king came 2r 22 26 28
temples to the Goddess of Lust, as they are in lndla to this day. Hence the constant denunclation of them in the Sacred Scrip- (lll;5 gs the- greatest of sins and depravities. 363
