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.