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Jeroboam said to his wife, Please get up and disguise yourself, that you not be known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get you to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who spoke concerning me that I should be king over this people.
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A Guilty King's Deception
Commentators agree that Jeroboam's decision to disguise his wife was driven by a guilty conscience. He knew he had broken his covenant with God by leading Israel into idolatry. As Albert Barnes notes, he feared that Ahijah, the very prophet who foretold his kingship, would now deliver a harsh judgment. This shows how sin can lead people to use deception rather than approaching God with honest repentance.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Disguise yourself - Jeroboam fears that even Ahijah the Shilonite, who in a way made him king, will scarcely give his queen a favorable answ…
19th Century
Anglican
Shiloh, the regular dwelling place of Ahijah, is hardly mentioned in Scripture after the time of Eli, and the destruction that the…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Jeroboam said to his wife Who she was is not known:
arise, I pray you, and disguise yourself<…
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