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A VIEW OF SICHEM, BETWEEN MT. GARIZIM AND MT. H AL
he pointed became instantly withered. At the same moment the altar was broken in two, and the ashes were scattered on the ground. The prophet prayed, at Jeroboam's request, and the withered hand was l1ealed.
Ahia was the son of Jeroboam. Once he became very Di and his mother, the queen, disguised herself and fo o went to see the prophet Ahias, who lived at Silo. When Ahias she knocked at his door, God told the prophet that it
was the queen, and that she had come to ask about her
son, who was ill. The prophet addressed her as the
wife of Jeroboam, and gave her this message for the
king: Because Jeroboam had made false gods for the kingdom which God had given him, his family would