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28 Jeroboam showed that he was a very capable man. When Solomon saw that the young man was a capable worker, he appointed him over all the forced labor of the house of Joseph.[a] 29 At that time, when Jeroboam left Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah from Shiloh met him on the road.[b] Ahijah was wearing a new cloak. The two of them were alone in the field.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 11:28 That is, the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh
  2. 1 Kings 11:29 The Greek Old Testament has the additional words marked by the half-brackets: Ahijah from Shiloh met him on the roadand caused him to turn aside out of the road⎦. The additional words are found between two occcurrences of the road.