Ahijah HaShiloni

Ahijah commissions Jeroboam as the future king of Israel.

Ahijah HaShiloni, also known as Ahijah the Shilonite, was a prophet of Shiloh (1 Kings 11:29 in the Old Testament. 14:2). He was called "the Shilonite" in the days of Rehoboam, to distinguish him from other men named Ahijah.

After King Solomon offended the prophetic ideal by erecting altars to non-Israelite gods, Ahijah was instrumental in the division of Solomon's domain into the northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah. He commissioned the northern labor leader Jeroboam to become the future king of Israel, promising him that the blessings originally intended for the Davidic kings would be fulfilled in Jeroboam's lineage 1 Kings 11:31-39. However, when Jeroboam displeased Ahijah by bypassing Shiloh in favor or northern sanctuaries at Bethel and Dan, and when Jeroboam erected golden bull statues at these shrines, Ahijah broke with his protege and predicted God's doom upon his lineage 1 Kings 14:6-16.

Jeroboam gave testimony to the high esteem in which he was held as a prophet of God (1 Kings 14:2,3).

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