translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET study note

text: Tell her so-and-so . Certainly the Lord gave Ahijah a specific message to give to Jeroboam’s wife (see vv. 6-16 ), but the author of Kings here condenses the Lord ’s message with the words “so-and-so.” For dramatic effect he prefers to have us hear the message from Ahijah’s lips as he speaks to the king’s wife.


text: Disaster . There is a wordplay in the Hebrew text. The word translated “disaster” ( רָעָה , ra ’ ah ) is from the same root as the expression “you have sinned” in v. 9 ( וַתָּרַע [ vattara ’], from רָעַע , [ ra ’ a ’]). Jeroboam’s sins would receive an appropriate punishment.