<p class="bodytext">So Jeroboam&#8217;s wife got up and went back to<n id="1" /> Tirzah. As she crossed the threshold of the house, the boy died.

As she went to get it, he called out to her, &#8220;Please bring me a piece of bread.&#8221;<n id="1" />

She went and did as Elijah told her; there was always enough food for Elijah and for her and her family.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">Jeroboam&#8217;s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah.<n id="1" /> Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age.<n id="2" />

You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me.<n id="1" />

Elijah<n id="1" /> replied, &#8220;I have not brought disaster<n id="2" /> on Israel. But you and your father&#8217;s dynasty have, by abandoning the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s commandments and following the Baals.

King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, besides what he had freely offered her.<n id="1" /> Then she left and returned<n id="2" /> to her homeland with her attendants.p>

&#8220;I raised you up<n id="1" /> from the dust and made you ruler over my people Israel. Yet you followed in Jeroboam&#8217;s footsteps<n id="2" /> and encouraged my people Israel to sin; their sins have made me angry.<n id="3" />