14:1-3
Having gone against the Lord Jeroboam is now in a mess, and he is leading the nation in a wrong direction. We now see that his sin Abijah is ill. Despite his disobedience he knows that Gis is his only hope. Yet he is scared of God, much like Adam and Eve hid from God after they had sinned. So he gets his wife to go to Ahijah the prophet, who had earlier spoken to Jeroboam (1 Kings 11)
Ahijah was blind, but God could still speak to him, and told him what was happening. A man dedicated to God can see better than any rebellious man. So he knew that Jeroboam's wife was coming, pretending to be someone else, he also gave him a word for the king.
14:4-16
So Jeroboam’s wife did as her husband had told her, disguised. Although Ahijah could not see, the Lord had told him that she would come. So when she arrived he knew exactly who she was and why she had come. He also told her that he had bad news for her. The boy would die when she went back home, Israel would mourn for him and bury him. The Lord would raise up a new king, who would cut off the family of Jeroboam. He would also strike Israel and uproot it from the land. This would happen because of idolatry.
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