Ahijah the Shilonite
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biblical prophet in the Old Testament (First Book of Kings)
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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite Ahijah the Shilonite (Hebrew: אֲחִיָּה הַשִּׁילֹנִי, romanized: ʾĂḥiyyā hašŠilōnī; Latin: Achias) is a Levite prophet of Shiloh in the Hebrew Bible's First Books of Kings. Ahijah foretold to Jeroboam that he would become king (1 Kings 11:29).
The Hebrew Bible records two of his prophecies. In 1 Kings 11:31–39, he announced the separation of the Northern ten tribes from Solomon's United Kingdom of Israel, forming the Northern Kingdom. In 1 Kings 14:6–16, Ahijah's prophecy, delivered to the wife of Jeroboam, foretold the death of the king's son, the destruction of the House of Jeroboam, and the fall and captivity of Israel "beyond the River", a stock expression for the land east of the Euphrates.
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