15. For the Lord will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the Lord to anger.
16. He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.”
17. Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
18. All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the Lord’s word, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.
19. The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.