You Cannot Hide from God

Jeroboam's son Abijah became sick. Jeroboam told his wife to disguise herself. She went to Ahijah, the prophet who had said Jeroboam would be king. She brought bread, cakes, and honey.

Ahijah was old and blind. But God told him who was coming. When he heard her steps, he called her Jeroboam's wife. He said Jeroboam had done more evil than all before him. He had made idols and turned his back on God. Judgment would come on his house. The child would die. But he was the only one in whom God found something good.

The child died, and all Israel mourned him. In Judah, Rehoboam's people did evil too. They built idols on every high hill. Shishak king of Egypt came. He took the treasures from God's house and all the gold shields. Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place.