1 Kings 14:14
Good News Translation
The LORD is going to place a king over Israel who will put an end to Jeroboam's dynasty.

New Revised Standard Version
Moreover the LORD will raise up for himself a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam today, even right now!

Contemporary English Version
The LORD will soon choose a new king of Israel, who will destroy Jeroboam's family. And I mean very soon.

New American Bible
The LORD will raise up for himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam—today, at this very moment!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord hath appointed himself a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam in this day, and in this time:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord hath appointed himself a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam in this day, and in this time:

the Lord

1 Kings 15:27-29 And Baasa, the son of Ahias, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him, and slew him in Gebbethon, which is a city of the Philistines: for Nadab and all Israel besieged Gebbethon. . . .

but what

Ecclesiastes 8:11 For because sentence is not speedily pronounced against the evil, the children of men commit evils without any fear.

Ezekiel 7:2-7 And thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God to the land of Israel: The end is come, the end is come upon the four quarters of the land. . . .

Ezekiel 12:22-28 Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel? saying: The days shall be prolonged, and every vision shall fail. . . .

James 5:9 Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you may not be judged. Behold the judge standeth before the door.

2 Peter 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not: and their perdition slumbereth not.

Context
Ahijah's Prophecy Against Jeroboam
13And all Israel shall mourn for him, and shall bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall be laid in a sepulchre, because in his regard there is found a good word from the Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam. 14And the Lord hath appointed himself a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam in this day, and in this time:15And the Lord God shall strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water: and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river: because they have made to themselves groves, to provoke the Lord.…
Cross References
1 Kings 15:27
And Baasa, the son of Ahias, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him, and slew him in Gebbethon, which is a city of the Philistines: for Nadab and all Israel besieged Gebbethon.

1 Kings 16:7
And when the word of the Lord came in the hand of Jehu, the son of Hanani, the prophet, against Baasa, and against his house, and against all the evil that he had done before the Lord, to provoke him to anger by the works of his hands, to become as the house of Jeroboam: for this cause he slew him; that is to say, Jehu, the son of Hanani, the prophet.

1 Kings 14:13
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