Jeroboam said to his wife, “Please get up and disguise yourself, so that you won’t be recognized as Jeroboam’s wife. Go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said that I would be king over this people.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 2. Dress. As if the prophet, who could dive into futurity, could be thus imposed upon. Jeroboam was aware that he would be full of indignation at the changes which had been introduced. He might also fear, lest his wife might be exposed to danger in ( Calmet.) or near ( Bible.) the enemy’s country, ( Calmet.) and the people would have been more convinced of the vanity of their idols, if they had seen that it was necessary to have recourse to a prophet of the true God. Menochius.—The mother might ask without the least suspicion, “Will my son recover?”—Silo might still be attached to the service of God, in consequence of the ark residing there so long, and the presence of the revered Ahias; so that, if it formed a part of the dominions of Israel, ( Tirinus.) as it was in the tribe of Ephraim, though nearer Jerusalem than Sichem, ( Calmet.) Jeroboam might reasonably fear lest his wife should be treated with indignity. Tirinus.