But when (A)Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be another? For I am charged with unbearable news for you. Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: (B)“Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over my people Israel and (C)tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you, and yet you have not been (D)like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, doing only that which was right in my eyes,

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