<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.

<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" />

(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.)

Jeroboam told his wife, &#8220;Disguise<n id="1" /> yourself so that people cannot recognize you are Jeroboam&#8217;s wife. Then go to Shiloh; Ahijah the prophet, who told me I would rule over this nation, lives there.<n id="2" />

But the <sc>Lordsc> had told Ahijah, &#8220;Look, Jeroboam&#8217;s wife is coming to find out from you what will happen to her son, for he is sick. Tell her so-and-so.<n id="1" /> When she comes, she will be in a disguise.&#8221;

When Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door, he said, &#8220;Come on in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you pretending to be someone else? I have been commissioned to give you bad news.<n id="1" />