1 Kings 14 · Verse 12

1 Kings 14:12

Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
1 Kings 14:12, King James Version

1 Kings 14:12 in other translations

BSBAs for you, get up and go home. When your feet enter the city, the child will die.
WEBArise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child will die.
ASVArise thou therefore, get thee to thy house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
YLT‘And thou, rise, go to thy house; in the going in of thy feet to the city--hath the lad died;
DARBYAnd thou, arise, go to thine own house; when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
BBEUp, then! go back to your house; and in the hour when your feet go into the town, the death of the child will take place.
WebsterArise thou therefore, depart to thy own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.

What does 1 Kings 14:12 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
12. the child shall die--The death and general lamentation felt through the country at the loss of the prince were also predicted. The reason for the profound regret shown at his death arose, according to Jewish writers, from his being decidedly opposed to the erection of the golden calves, and using his influence with his father to allow his subjects the free privilege of going to worship in Jerusalem.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 14:7-20

Whether we keep an account of God's mercies to us or not, he does; and he will set them in order before us, if we are ungrateful, to our greater confusion. Ahijah foretells the speedy death of the child then sick, in mercy to him. He only in the house of Jeroboam had affection for the true worship of God, and disliked the worship of the calves. To show the power and sovereignty of his grace, God saves some out of…

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1 Kings 14:12 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְאַ֥תְּve.'Atand youH859
ק֖וּמִיKu.miariseH6965
לְכִ֣יle.KhigoH1980
לְבֵיתֵ֑ךְle.vei.Tekhto house yourH1004
בְּבֹאָ֥הbe.vo.'Ahwhen goH935
רַגְלַ֛יִךְrag.La.yikhfeet yourH7272
הָעִ֖ירָהha.'I.rahthe city towardsH5892
וּמֵ֥תu.Metand he will dieH4191
הַיָּֽלֶד\׃hai.Ya.ledthe childH3206

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 1 Kings 14:12

  • John 4:50-52

    Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way. And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth. Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

  • 2 Kings 1:16

    And he said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baal–zebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to enquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

  • 1 Kings 14:3

    And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.

  • 1 Kings 14:16-17

    And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin. And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;

  • 2 Kings 1:6

    And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of Baal–zebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
when thy feet.
3,16,17; 2Ki 1:6,16; Joh 4:50-52

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 1 Kings 14:11

    Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the Lord hath spoken it.

  • 1 Kings 14:12

    Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.

  • 1 Kings 14:13

    And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

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1 Kings 14:12 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y tú levántate, y vete á tu casa; que en entrando tu pie en la ciudad, morirá el mozo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et toi, lève-toi, va-t’en dans ta maison: quand tes pieds entreront dans la ville, l’enfant mourra.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und du, mache dich auf, gehe nach deinem Hause; wenn deine Füße in die Stadt eintreten, wird das Kind sterben.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Tu igitur surge, et vade in domum tuam: et in ipso introitu pedum tuorum in urbem, morietur puer,