[[1 Kings-14]] Prev: [[Prophecies in 1 Kings-13]] | Next: [[Prophecies in 1 Kings-15]] --- ### When your feet enter into the city, the child will die. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: The prophet Ahijah predicts that Jeroboam's son, Abijah, will die at the exact moment his mother returns and enters the city of Tirzah. *Historical context*: This prophecy is fulfilled immediately within the same chapter of the biblical narrative ([[1 Kings-14#v17|1 Kings 14:17]]-18). *Related to*: ### As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died. All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to Yahweh's word, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet. *Type*: fulfillment *Summary*: Jeroboam's wife returns home, and her son dies just as she enters the house, fulfilling the specific sign given by the prophet Ahijah. *Historical context*: The fulfillment of this immediate 'short-range' prophecy served as a sign to Jeroboam that the 'long-range' prophecies regarding his dynasty and the nation would also come to pass. *Related to*: [[1 Kings-14#v12|1 Kings 14:12]] - When your feet enter into the city, the child will die. ### 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. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: God declares the complete and violent end of Jeroboam's royal lineage because of his idolatry. *Historical context*: The house of Jeroboam was historically extinguished approximately two years after Jeroboam's death when his son Nadab was assassinated. *Related to*: ### Moreover 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. *Type*: fulfillment *Summary*: The prophecy identifies that a future king will be the instrument of judgment to destroy Jeroboam's family. *Historical context*: This was fulfilled by King Baasha of the tribe of Issachar, who conspired against Nadab (Jeroboam's son) and killed the entire house of Jeroboam as recorded in [[1 Kings-15#v27|1 Kings 15:27]]-29, leaving none alive. *Related to*: [[1 Kings-14#v10|1 Kings 14:10]] - I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone... ### For 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. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: Ahijah predicts the eventual national destruction and exile of the Northern Kingdom of Israel across the Euphrates River. *Historical context*: This was fulfilled in 722 BCE when the Assyrian Empire, under Shalmaneser V and Sargon II, conquered the capital city of Samaria and deported the Israelites to territories 'beyond the River' (Euphrates) in Upper Mesopotamia and Media. *Related to*: ### He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin. *Type*: fulfillment *Summary*: The prophecy states that Israel will be abandoned by God and handed over to their enemies due to the persistent sins established by Jeroboam. *Historical context*: The historical account in [[2 Kings-17#v21|2 Kings 17:21]]-23 explicitly cites the sins of Jeroboam as the primary cause for the Assyrian Captivity, confirming the completion of Ahijah's prediction roughly 250 years later. *Related to*: [[1 Kings-14#v15|1 Kings 14:15]] - For Yahweh will strike Israel... and will scatter them beyond the River. --- #ai_prophecy