1 Kings 14:12-17

14:12 “As for you, get up and go home. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die. 14:13 All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family ¹  who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the Lord God of Israel found anything good. 14:14 The Lord will raise up a king over Israel who will cut off Jeroboam’s dynasty. ²  It is ready to happen! ³  14:15 The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. ⁴  He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors ⁵  and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, ⁶  because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles. ⁷  14:16 He will hand Israel over to their enemies ⁸  because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit.”

14:17 So Jeroboam’s wife got up and went back to ⁹  Tirzah. As she crossed the threshold of the house, the boy died.

[14:13]  ¹ tn Heb “house.”

[14:14]  ¹ tn Heb “house.”

[14:14]  ² tn Heb “This is the day. What also now?” The precise meaning of the second half of the statement is uncertain.

[14:15]  ¹ tn The elliptical Hebrew text reads literally “and the Lord will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water.”

[14:15]  ² tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 22, 31).

[14:15]  ³ tn Heb “the River.” In biblical Hebrew this is a typical reference to the Euphrates River. The name “Euphrates” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[14:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “because they made their Asherah poles that anger the Lord”; or “their images of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “their Asherim”; NCV “they set up idols to worship Asherah.”

[14:16]  ¹ tn Heb “and he will give [up] Israel.”

[14:17]  ¹ tn Heb “went and entered.”