1 Re 11:29

29 Ora, essendo in quel tempo Geroboamo uscito fuor di Gerusalemme, il profeta Ahia Silonita lo trovò per la via, vestito d’una vesta nuova; ed erano amendue soli in su la campagna.

1 Re 11:29 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 11:29

And it came to pass at that time, when Jeroboam went out of
Jerusalem
Either to enter upon his new office: or having been with Solomon to pay in the revenues, and to make up his accounts with him was going back to the country to do the duty of his office:

that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way;
not accidentally, but purposely was in the way to meet him, and converse with him; this prophet was of the city of Shiloh, and where was now his abode, see ( 1 Kings 14:2 )

and he had clad himself with a new garment;
not Jeroboam, but the prophet, and that by the direction of the Lord, for the following purpose:

and they two were alone in the field:
it is possible Jeroboam might have some servants with him; but Ahijah desiring some private conversation with him, he sent them onwards, or bid them stay at some distance; who yet might be capable of observing what was done, though not of hearing what was said; or otherwise how should Solomon come to the knowledge of it? ( 1 Kings 11:40 ) .

1 Re 11:29 In-Context

27 E questa fu la cagione, per la quale si levò contro al re: Salomone edificava Millo, e chiudeva la rottura della Città di Davide, suo padre.

28 Or quell’uomo Geroboamo era valente e prode; e Salomone, veggendo il giovane che lavorava, l’ordinò sopra quelli della casa di Giuseppe, che portavano pesi.

29 Ora, essendo in quel tempo Geroboamo uscito fuor di Gerusalemme, il profeta Ahia Silonita lo trovò per la via, vestito d’una vesta nuova; ed erano amendue soli in su la campagna.

30 Ed Ahia prese la vesta nuova ch’egli avea indosso, e la stracciò in dodici pezzi.

31 E disse a Geroboamo: Prenditene dieci pezzi; perciocchè il Signore Iddio d’Israele ha detto così: Ecco, io straccio il reame d’infra le mani di Salomone, e te ne darò dieci tribù.