“As soon as he was king, he struck all the house of Jeroboam. He didn’t leave to Jeroboam any who breathed, until he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite;”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.