made bucklers and shields
of brass, instead of those of gold, and delivered the same number
of them to the keepers of the king's palace. So, instead of warlike
expeditions, and that glory which results from those public actions, he
reigned in great quietness, though not without fear, as being always an
enemy to Jeroboam, and he died when he had lived fifty-seven years, and
reigned seventeen. He was in his disposition a proud and a foolish
man, and lost [part of his] dominions by not hearkening to his father's
friends. He was buried in Jerusalem, in the sepulchers of the kings; and
his son Abijah succeeded him in the kingdom, and this in the eighteenth
year of Jeroboam's reign over the ten tribes; and this was the
conclusion of these affairs. It must be now our business to relate the
affairs of Jeroboam, and how he ended his life; for he ceased not nor
rested to be injurious to God, but every day raised up altars upon high
mountains, and went on making priests out of the multitude.

CHAPTER 11. Concerning The Death Of A Son Of Jeroboam. How Jeroboam Was
Beaten By Abijah Who Died A Little Afterward And Was Succeeded In
His Kingdom By Asa. And Also How, After The Death Of Jeroboam Baasha
Destroyed His Son Nadab And All The House Of Jeroboam.

1. However, God was in no long time ready to return Jeroboam's wicked
actions, and the punishment they deserved, upon his own head, and upon
the heads of all his house. And whereas a soil of his lay sick at that
time, who was called Abijah, he enjoined his wife to lay aside her
robes, and to take the garments belonging to a private person, and to
go to Ahijah the prophet, for that he was a wonderful man in foretelling
futurities, it having been he who told me that I should be king. He also
enjoined her, when she came to him, to inquire concerning the child, as
if she were a stranger, whether he should escape this distemper. So she
did as her husband bade her, and changed her habit, and came to the city
Shiloh, for there did Ahijah live. And as she was going into his house,
his eyes being then dim with age, God appeared to him, and informed
him of two things; that the wife of Jeroboam was come to him, and what
answer he should make to her inquiry. Accordingly, as the woman was
coming into the house like a private person and a stranger, he cried
out, "Come in, O thou wife of Jeroboam! Why concealest thou thyself?
Thou art not concealed from God, who hath appeared to me, and info