1. At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill,
2. and Jeroboam said to his wife,
   "Go, disguise yourself, so you won't be recognized as the wife of Jeroboam.
   Then go to Shiloh. Ahijah the prophet is there--the one who told me I would be king over this people.
3. Take ten loaves of bread with you, some cakes and a jar of honey,
   and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy."
4. So Jeroboam's wife did what he said and went to Ahijah's house in Shiloh.
   Now Ahijah could not see; his sight was gone because of his age.
5. But the LORD had told Ahijah,
   "Jeroboam's wife is coming to ask you about her son, for he is ill, and you are to give her such and such an answer.
   When she arrives, she will pretend to be someone else."
6. So when Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps at the door,
   he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why this pretense? I have been sent to you with bad news.
7. Go, tell Jeroboam that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:
   'I raised you up from among the people and made you a leader over my people Israel.
8. I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you,
   but you have not been like my servant David,
   who kept my commands and followed me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes.
9. You have done more evil than all who lived before you.
   You have made for yourself other gods, idols made of metal;
   you have provoked me to anger and thrust me behind your back.
10. "'Because of this, I am going to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam.
   I will cut off from Jeroboam every last male in Israel--slave or free.
   I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns dung, until it is all gone.
11. Dogs will eat those belonging to Jeroboam who die in the city,
   and the birds of the air will feed on those who die in the country.
   The LORD has spoken!'
12. "As for you, go back home. When you set foot in your city, the boy will die.
13. All Israel will mourn for him and bury him.
   He is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will be buried,
   because he is the only one in the house of Jeroboam in whom the LORD, the God of Israel, has found anything good.
14. "The LORD will raise up for himself a king over Israel who will cut off the family of Jeroboam.
   This is the day! What? Yes, even now.
15. And the LORD will strike Israel, so that it will be like a reed swaying in the water.
   He will uproot Israel from this good land that he gave to their forefathers and scatter them beyond the River,
   because they provoked the LORD to anger by making Asherah poles.
16. And he will give Israel up because of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit."
17. Then Jeroboam's wife got up and left and went to Tirzah.
   As soon as she stepped over the threshold of the house, the boy died.
18. They buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, as the LORD had said through his servant the prophet Ahijah.
19. The other events of Jeroboam's reign, his wars and how he ruled,
   are written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel.
20. He reigned for twenty-two years and then rested with his fathers.
   And Nadab his son succeeded him as king.
21. Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah.
   He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem,
   the city the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name.
   His mother's name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite.
22. Judah did evil in the eyes of the LORD.
   By the sins they committed they stirred up his jealous anger more than their fathers had done.
23. They also set up for themselves high places,
   sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.
24. There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land;
   the people engaged in all the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
25. In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.
26. He carried off the treasures of the temple of the LORD and the treasures of the royal palace.
   He took everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made.
27. So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned these
   to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.
28. Whenever the king went to the LORD'S temple, the guards bore the shields,
   and afterward they returned them to the guardroom.
29. As for the other events of Rehoboam's reign, and all he did,
   are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
30. There was continual warfare between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
31. And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David.
   His mother's name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite. And Abijah his son succeeded him as king.




여로보암과 르호보암의 치세
하나님의 징계로 둘로 나위어진 이스라엘
하나님의 나라로 하나님이 세우시고
다스리시며 축복하신 이스라엘이
하나님을 떠나 이방신을 섬김으로
그 나라를 둘로 나누신 하나님

그냥 징계하신 것이 아니라
신실하신 하나님이
다윗과의 언약을 기억하시고
다윗을 인해서
그 아들들의 위를 지키시고자
유다지파를 빼내어 한 나라를 세우시고
그 왕위를 다윗의 후손으로 세우신다.

그리고
범죄한 솔로몬의 죄를 물어
이스라엘의 남은 지파들을 찢어 여로보암에게 주신다.

그러나 그 결과는 더욱 참담할 뿐이다.

여로보암은 하나님의 도우심으로
그 말씀을 인하여 이스라엘의 왕이 되었음에도
자신의 눈으로 치세하고 하나님을 떠나
우상을 섬기며 산당과 신전들을 짖고 만다.
그러므로 하나님은 그를 벌하시되
그의 아들을 죽이시고 그의 위를 끊으신다.

하나님의 주권은 정확하고 명확하다.
우리에게 부탁하신 일들을 온전히 할 수 없다면
하나님은 그를 돌아보지 않으신다.
실패하고 실수할 수 있지만

하나님의 명령을 어기고
그 말씀을 따르지 않으며
우상을 섬기고 하나님을 멸시하는 것을
하나님은 그대로 놓아두지 않으시는 것이다.

르호보암 역시 다르지 않다.
아버지의 실패와
하나님의 징꼐가 결코
그에게 회개와 돌이킴을 주지 않기때문이다.

하나님의 나라가
하나님의 택하시고 세우시는 나라가 이러할 진데

하나님의 교회라 할지라도
하나님의 자녀라 불리는 성도라 할지라도
우리의 삶이 너무도 쉽게 무너질 수 있음을 잊어서는 않되겠다.

솔로몬도
여로보암과 르호보암도
하나님의 손에 올려져 재어보신 것 처럼

우리의 삶도 우리의 역활도
하나님의 손에 재어질 터이다.

두렵고 떨리는 마음으로..............