1 Kings 14:17
Good News Translation
Jeroboam's wife went back to Tirzah. Just as she entered her home, the child died.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and went away, and she came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.

Contemporary English Version
Jeroboam's wife left and went back home to the town of Tirzah. As soon as she set foot in her house, her son died.

New American Bible
So Jeroboam’s wife left and went back; when she came to Tirzah and crossed the threshold of her house, the child died.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the wife of Jeroboam arose, and departed, and came to Thersa: and when she was coming in to the threshold of the house, the child died,

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And the wife of Jeroboam arose, and departed, and came to Thersa: and when she was coming in to the threshold of the house, the child died,

1 Kings 6:4 And he made in the temple oblique windows.

, `Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah,' though its precise situation cannot now be ascertained. it seems to have been the {royal city}, and the seat of government for a long time after the revolt of the ten tribes, till Omri built Samaria.

1 Kings 15:21,33 And when Baasa had heard this, he left off building Rama, and returned into Thersa. . . .

1 Kings 16:6,8,9,15,23 So Baasa slept with his fathers, and was buried in Thersa: and Ela, his son, reigned in his stead. . . .

Joshua 12:24 The king of Thersa one: all the kings thirty and one.

Songs 6:4 Thou art beautiful, O my love, sweet and comely as Jerusalem terrible as an army set in array.

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1 Kings 14:12,13 Arise thou, therefore, and go to thy house: and when thy feet shall be entering into the city, the child shall die, . . .

1 Samuel 2:20-34 And Heli blessed Elcana and his wife: and he said to him: The Lord give thee seed of this woman, for the loan thou hast lent to the Lord. And they went to their own home. . . .

1 Samuel 4:18-20 And when he had named the ark of God, he fell from his stool backwards by the door, and broke his neck and died. For he was an old man, and far advanced in years: And he judged Israel forty years. . . .

Context
Ahijah's Prophecy Against Jeroboam
16And the Lord shall give up Israel for the sins of Jeroboam, who hath sinned, and made Israel to sin. 17And the wife of Jeroboam arose, and departed, and came to Thersa: and when she was coming in to the threshold of the house, the child died,18And they buried him. And all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant Ahias, the prophet.…
Cross References
1 Kings 14:12
Arise thou, therefore, and go to thy house: and when thy feet shall be entering into the city, the child shall die,

1 Kings 15:21
And when Baasa had heard this, he left off building Rama, and returned into Thersa.

1 Kings 15:33
In the third year of Asa, king of Juda, Baasa, the son of Ahias, reigned over all Israel, in Thersa, four and twenty years.

1 Kings 16:6
So Baasa slept with his fathers, and was buried in Thersa: and Ela, his son, reigned in his stead.

1 Kings 16:15
In the seven and twentieth year of Asa, king of Juda, Zambri reigned seven days in Thersa: now the army was besieging Gebbethon, a city of the Philistines.

2 Kings 15:14
And Manahem, the son of Gadi, went up from Thersa, and he came into Samaria, and struck Sellum, the son of Jabes, in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

Songs 6:4
Thou art beautiful, O my love, sweet and comely as Jerusalem terrible as an army set in array.

1 Kings 14:16
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