14:4 Jeroboam’s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah. 3 Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age. 4
1 tn Heb “King Solomon.” The name and title have been replaced by the pronoun (“you”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
2 tn Or “swear an oath to.”
3 tn Heb “and the wife of Jeroboam did so; she arose and went to Shiloh and entered the house of Ahijah.”
4 tn Heb “his eyes were set because of his old age.”
5 tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”
6 tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”