Study it in the app“Jeroboam’s wife did so: she got up and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes had become fixed because of his old age.”
Jeroboam’sיָרָבְעָםwifeאֵשֶׁתdidוַתַּעַשׂso:כֵּןshe got upוַתָּקָםand wentוַתֵּלֶךְto Shilohשִׁלֹהand cameוַתָּבֹאto the houseבֵּיתof Ahijah.אֲחִיָּהNow Ahijahוַאֲחִיָּהוּcould notלֹא יָכֹלsee,לִרְאוֹתforכִּיhis eyesעֵינָיוhad become fixedקָמוּbecause of his old age.מִשֵּׂיבוֹ
Jeroboam
Jeroboam: the name of two kings of Israel: Jeroboam son of Nebat, first king of the ten northern tribes (1 Kings 11–14), and Jeroboam son of Joash, much later (2 Kings 14:23-29).
Where else “yaravam” appearswife
Literally "his woman": the one married to him.
Where else “eshet” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “taas” appearsrise
To go from sitting or lying to standing, or to set out.
Where else “takam” appearsgo
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “telech” appearsShiloh
See it on the mapWhere else “shilo” appearsenter
To go into a place.
Where else “tavo” appearshouse
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “bet” appearsAhijah
Ahijah: the name of several people; among them the priest who carried the ephod in Saul's time (1 Samuel 14:3) and the prophet from Shiloh (1 Kings 11:29). It means "brother of YHWH."
Where else “achiya” appearsbe able
To have the strength, the permission or the opportunity to do something.
Where else “yachol” appearssee
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “reot” appearseye
The organ with which one sees; so "lift the eyes" means to look.
Where else “enay” appearsold age
Old age: the age of gray hair.
Where else “sev” appearsShiloh
Today: Khirbet Seilun (Tel Shiloh), West Bank
A town in the hills of Ephraim, about 19 miles (30 km) north of Jerusalem.
The tabernacle stood there in the days of Joshua and Eli (Josh 18:1; 1 Sam 1:3). Hannah prayed there, and Samuel was born (1 Sam 1:9-20).
3Take in your hand ten loaves of bread, and cakes, and a jar of honey, and go in to him; he will tell you what will happen to the boy.”
4 · This verse (above)
5But YHWH had said to Ahijah, “Look, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to seek a word from you about her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus you shall speak to her. And it will be, when she comes in, that she will be pretending to be another woman.”
