Editing Jeroboam (section)

=== Identity of related figures ===
[[File:Ahijahs and Jeroboam.jpg|thumb|[[Gerard Hoet]], ''[[Ahijah the Shilonite|Ahijah]]'s prophecy to Jeroboam'', 1728.]]
[[Josephus]] and [[Jerome]] identify the "man of God" who warned Jeroboam as the seer named [[Iddo (prophet)|Iddo]].<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=74&letter=I&search=Jeroboam |title= IDDO - JewishEncyclopedia.com|website= www.jewishencyclopedia.com}}</ref>

The [[wife of Jeroboam]] is a character in the [[Hebrew Bible]]. Though unnamed in the [[Masoretic text]], she appears in the [[Septuagint]] as an [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]]ian princess called Ano:
:''And [[Shishak|Sousakim]] gave to Jeroboam Ano the eldest sister of [[Thekemina]] his wife, to him as wife; she was great among the king's daughters...'' <ref name=LXX>[http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/nets/edition/11-3reigns-nets.pdf 1 Kings 12:24e], [[New English Translation of the Septuagint]]</ref>

In 1 Kings,<ref>''Bible'' {{bibleverse|1 Kings|14|NKJV}}</ref> Jeroboam's son [[Abijah]] falls ill, and Jeroboam sends his wife to the prophet Ahijah. Ahijah's message, however, is that Abijah will die, which he does. According to ''[[The Jewish Encyclopedia]]'', the good that Abijah did for which he would be laid in the grave ("Rabbinical Literature: The passage, I Kings, xiv. 13, in which there is a reference to "some good thing [found in him] toward the Lord God of Israel") is interpreted (M. Ḳ. 28b) as an allusion to Abijah's courageous and pious act in removing the sentinels placed by his father on the frontier between Israel and Judah to prevent pilgrimages to Jerusalem. Some assert that Abijah himself undertook a pilgrimage."<ref>[http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/300-abijah Jewish Encyclopedia] - "The passage, I Kings, xiv. 13, in which there is a reference to 'some good thing [found in him] toward the Lord God of Israel,' is interpreted (M. Ḳ. 28b) as an allusion to Abijah's courageous and pious act in removing the sentinels placed by his father on the frontier between Israel and Judah to prevent pilgrimages to Jerusalem. Some assert that he himself undertook a pilgrimage."</ref> Nevertheless, these sentinels on the frontier were not removed until the reign of [[Hoshea]], last king of the northern Kingdom of Israel. The Rabbis explain the description of Hoshea "And he did what was evil in the eyes of the L‑rd, though not like the kings of Israel who had preceded him."<ref>[https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1679684/jewish/The-Exile-of-the-Ten-Lost-Tribes-of-Israel.htm The Exhile of the Ten Lost Tribes Chabbad library]</ref>