Jeroboam's Wife Comes to the Blind Prophet Ahijahby emmanuel_higgins

1 Kings 14:2

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.

The verse belongs to the history of Israel and Judah after the ten tribes revolted into a separate kingdom, falling within a span of about eighty years of the two kingdoms covering several kings and ending with Jehoshaphat's death. It identifies Ahijah as the prophet at Shiloh who had told Jeroboam that he should become king over this people, over Israel. The surrounding account also contains Ahijah's prediction concerning Jeroboam's descendants. The event recorded in 1 Kings 14 is told more completely in 2 Chronicles 12, and the ruins of the temple at Karnak on the Nile in Africa have been examined for evidence confirming that event.

In the larger passage of 1 Kings 14:1-13, Abijah of Jeroboam's family stands as an example connected with this history. He exemplifies a godly person living amid wickedness. His case shows that God's grace can preserve a righteous person in an ungodly household.