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if these subjects of mine are allowed to go and sacrifice in the Lord’s house at Jerusalem. Their loyalties will go out again to their old master, king Roboam of Juda; they will kill me, and return to his allegiance. (1 Kings 12, 27)
And this was the plan he devised; he made two golden calves, and said to the men of Israel, Here are your gods; the same gods that rescued you from the land of Egypt; no need to make pilgrimage to Jerusalem any more. (1 Kings 12, 28)
And he offered them proof, there and then; Here is a sign, he told them, to prove that this message comes from the Lord; see if this altar does not fall apart, and spill the ashes it holds! (1 Kings 13, 3)
There was an old seer dwelling at Bethel, whose sons came and told him what deeds the prophet of God had done in the town that day; told what words had passed, too, between him and the king. (1 Kings 13, 11)
Passers-by told how they had seen it, a lion standing beside a dead man’s body that lay in the road, when they reached the township where the old seer lived, (1 Kings 13, 25)
So the old seer took up the prophet’s body and put it on the ass, and returned with it to his own city, to mourn over the dead. (1 Kings 13, 29)
Whereupon Jeroboam said to his wife, Here is a journey needs to be made; but first disguise thyself, so that none may know thou art the wife of Jeroboam. It is to Silo thou must go, where Ahias lives, the prophet who foretold that I should be king of this realm; (1 Kings 14, 2)
So Jeroboam’s wife did his bidding; to Silo she made her way, and found Ahias’ house. Ahias had no sight left now, so dim were his eyes grown with old age; (1 Kings 14, 4)
but the Lord made it known to him that Jeroboam’s wife was coming to ask him about her son, that had fallen sick, and told him what words he must use to her. She, as she entered, would have given herself out to be other than she was; (1 Kings 14, 5)
but Ahias, as soon as he heard the fall of her feet on the threshold, cried out, Come in, wife of Jeroboam; why dost thou feign thyself to be another? I am charged with bitter tidings for thee. (1 Kings 14, 6)
Up, then, betake thyself home, and as thy feet cross the threshold of the city, thy son will die. (1 Kings 14, 12)
So Jeroboam’s wife left him, and made her way back to Thersa, where her feet no sooner crossed the threshold than her son died. (1 Kings 14, 17)
