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1 Kings 14:2 Explained in Context
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Verse 2. 2And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.
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Quick Meaning
This verse advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence: “And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Jeroboam sends his disguised wife to the blind Ahijah.”
A sick child sends Jeroboam's wife toward Shiloh in disguise
This verse is one part of that explanation in 1 Kings 14:1–6. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- 1 Kings 14:1–6
Read 1 Kings 14:2 with 14:1–6. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Opens with the illness of Jeroboam's son Abijah; has Ahijah recognize Jeroboam's wife by her footsteps and announce painful news.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Jeroboam sends his disguised wife to the blind Ahijah,” 1 Kings 14:2 advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence through the wording “And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known….” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: 1 Kings 13:33–34 establishes this prior movement: Reports that Jeroboam still appointed any willing person to high-place priesthood; connects that continuing policy with the coming destruction of Jeroboam's house. 1 Kings 14:1–6 continues the same royal, temple, household, prophetic, or military movement; that demonstrated relationship, rather than database adjacency alone, explains its placement.
Read 1 Kings 14:1–6 together
Why these verses belong together: Jeroboam sends his disguised wife to the blind Ahijah is the complete reviewed scene, prayer, oracle, list, or regnal notice bounded at 14:1–14:6.
Verse 1. 1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
Verse 2. 2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.
Verse 3. 3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.
Verse 4. 4 And Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
Verse 5. 5 And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.
Verse 6. 6 And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.
What Remains True
Public power and worship remain accountable to truth, covenant faithfulness, affected people, and consequences rather than title, success, wealth, or majority support. This unit tests that truth through opens with the illness of Jeroboam's son Abijah; has Ahijah recognize Jeroboam's wife by her footsteps and announce painful news. In 1 Kings 14:2, the concrete line “And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known…” keeps that truth accountable to the narrated evidence.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read 1 Kings 14:1–6 — Jeroboam sends his disguised wife to the blind AhijahSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: 1 Kings 14:1–6, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Kings
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording and morphology used for lexical, grammatical, name, clause, and older-English checks; this is not a critical apparatus or historical proof.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Kgs.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 14:1–6
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: 1 Kings with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Only printed unit-level translation, lexical, grammatical, textual, historical, and verse-numbering notes; silence is not evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible 1 Kings PDF, printed pp. 612–614, translation and translator notes for 14:1–6
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