This document is about Ahijah (Prophet). For other homonyms, please refer to the Ahijah document. He was a prophet who foretold the division of the kingdom of Israel after the death of Solomon.
1 Kings 11:29Ahijah took the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces.1 Kings 11:30He said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you1 Kings 11:31(but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);1 Kings 11:32because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon. They have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did.1 Kings 11:33“ ‘However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant’s sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;1 Kings 11:34but I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it to you, even ten tribes.1 Kings 11:35I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.1 Kings 11:36I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires, and shall be king over Israel.1 Kings 11:37It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David) my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.1 Kings 11:38I will afflict the offspring of David for this, but not forever.’ ”1 Kings 11:39Therefore Solomon) sought to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt)), to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
1 Kings 14:1Jeroboam 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.1 Kings 14:2Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the child.”1 Kings 14:3Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.1 Kings 14:4Yahweh said to Ahijah, “Behold, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick. Tell her such and such; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman.”1 Kings 14:5So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, Jeroboam’s wife! Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news.1 Kings 14:6Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Yahweh, the God of Israel), says: “Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,1 Kings 14:7and tore the kingdom away from David)’s house, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,1 Kings 14:8but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back;1 Kings 14:9therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it is all gone.1 Kings 14:10The dogs will eat he who belongs to Jeroboam who dies in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field: for Yahweh has spoken it.” ’1 Kings 14:11Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child will die.1 Kings 14:12All Israel) will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.1 Kings 14:13Moreover Yahweh will raise up a king for himself over Israel, who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day! What? Even now.1 Kings 14:14For Yahweh will strike Israel), as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking Yahweh to anger.1 Kings 14:15He will give Israel) up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.”1 Kings 14:16Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.1 Kings 14:17All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.1 Kings 14:18The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
2 Chronicles 9:29Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.