1 Kings 14:17

14:17 So Jeroboam’s wife got up and went back to ¹  Tirzah. As she crossed the threshold of the house, the boy died.

1 Kings 14:4

14:4 Jeroboam’s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah. ²  Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age. ³ 

1 Kings 9:16

9:16 (Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer. He burned it and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city. He gave it as a wedding present to his daughter, who had married Solomon.)

1 Kings 14:2

14:2 Jeroboam told his wife, “Disguise ⁴  yourself so that people cannot recognize you are Jeroboam’s wife. Then go to Shiloh; Ahijah the prophet, who told me I would rule over this nation, lives there. ⁵ 

1 Kings 14:5-6

14:5 But the Lord had told Ahijah, “Look, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to find out from you what will happen to her son, for he is sick. Tell her so-and-so. ⁶  When she comes, she will be in a disguise.” 14:6 When Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door, he said, “Come on in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you pretending to be someone else? I have been commissioned to give you bad news. ⁷ 

¹ tn Heb “went and entered.”

² tn Heb “and the wife of Jeroboam did so; she arose and went to Shiloh and entered the house of Ahijah.”

³ tn Heb “his eyes were set because of his old age.”

³ tn Heb “Get up, change yourself.”

⁴ tn Heb “look, Ahijah the prophet is there, he told me [I would be] king over this nation.”

⁴ sn Tell her so-and-so. Certainly the Lord gave Ahijah a specific message to give to Jeroboam’s wife (see vv. 6-16), but the author of Kings here condenses the Lord’s message with the words “so-and-so.” For dramatic effect he prefers to have us hear the message from Ahijah’s lips as he speaks to the king’s wife.

⁵ tn Heb “I am sent to you [with] a hard [message].”