And Jeroboam’s wife did so; she arose (A)and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were [a]glazed by reason of his age.

Now the Lord had said to Ahijah, “Here is the wife of Jeroboam, coming to ask you something about her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus you shall say to her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman.

And so it was, when Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be another person? For I have been sent to you with bad news.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 14:4 Lit. set

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