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11 Dogs will eat the members of your family[a] who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”’ Indeed, the Lord has announced it!

12 “As for you, get up and go home. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die. 13 All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family[b] who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the Lord God of Israel found anything good.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 14:11 tn The Hebrew text has “belonging to Jeroboam” here.
  2. 1 Kings 14:13 tn Heb “house.”