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. 1
1 Kings 18:26
18:26 So they took a bull, as he had suggested, 2 and prepared it. They invoked the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “Baal, answer us.” But there was no sound and no answer. They jumped 3 around on the altar they had made. 4
1 tnHeb “I am sent to you [with] a hard [message].”
2 tnHeb “and they took the bull which he allowed them.”
3 tnHeb “limped” (the same verb is used in v. 21).
4 tc The MT has “which he made,” but some medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions have the plural form of the verb.