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Ahijah tells the mother the child will die when she enters the city and all Israel will mourn him; her grief is immediate.
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1 Kings 14:12-13

The child and a grave

Judgment on Jeroboam and Rehoboam · 1 Kings 14

Story guide: Ahijah tells Jeroboam's wife that her son will die when she reaches the city, and her grief shows at once; the passage does not describe her expression.

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12But as for you, arise, go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the child will die.

13All Israel will mourn for him and bury him, because he alone of Jeroboam’s house will come to the grave, since in him something good toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, has been found in the house of Jeroboam.

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