Shilonite

Ahijah the Shilonite appears only briefly, yet the books of Kings keep coming back to his word. This prophet finds Jeroboam alone in a field, when Jeroboam has “clad himself with a new garment” (1 Kings 11:29). Later, when the king turns a deaf ear to the people, the writer says “the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying” (1 Kings 12:15). The end of Jeroboam’s house is again traced to what the LORD spoke “by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.” Chronicles even lists his prophecy among the records of Solomon’s reign. Start with 1 Kings 11:29.

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1 Kings

1 Kings 11:29

And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:

1 Kings 12:15

Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

1 Kings 15:29

And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:

2 Chronicles

2 Chronicles 9:29

Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

From Easton's Bible Dictionary

Matthew George Easton, 1897

Ahijah the prophet, whose home was in Shiloh, is so designated (1 Kings 11:29; 15:29). The plural form occurs (1 Chr. 9:5), denoting the descendants of Shelah, Judah’s youngest son.

Based on Nave's Topical Bible by Orville J. Nave (1896). Dictionary entries from Easton's Bible Dictionary. Public domain. KJV scripture text, public domain.