2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.

Not that Ahijah was a fortune-teller. It was the idea of Jeroboam, who was an unenlightened man, that as Ahijah had correctly informed him of his elevation to the throne at a time when such an event was most improbable, he would likely be able to inform him about the destiny of his son.

Ahijah's correct prophecy of the kingdom was a direct message from God, and not a reading of the future by Ahijah: but Jeroboam probably did not understand, and sent his wife to Ahijah as anyone would send a messenger to a soothsayer.

The Christadelphian, June 1898