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1 Kings 14:4-6
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4 Jeroboam’s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah.[a] Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age.[b] 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 such and such.[c] When she comes, she will be in a disguise.” 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.[d]

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  1. 1 Kings 14:4 tn Heb “and the wife of Jeroboam did so; she arose and went to Shiloh and entered the house of Ahijah.”
  2. 1 Kings 14:4 tn Heb “his eyes were set because of his old age.”
  3. 1 Kings 14:5 tn Heb “like this and like this.”sn Tell her such and such. 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.
  4. 1 Kings 14:6 tn Heb “I am sent to you [with] a hard [message].”
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