1 Koningen 14:4

Staten Vertaling

En Jerobeams huisvrouw deed alzo, en maakte zich op, en ging naar Silo, en kwam in het huis van Ahia. Ahia nu kon niet zien, want zijn ogen stonden stijf vanwege zijn ouderdom.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
En Jerobeams huisvrouw deed zo, en maakte zich op en ging heen naar Silo, en kwam in het huis van Aha. Aha nu kon niet zien, want zijne ogen stonden stijf van ouderdom.

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
De vrouw van Jerobeam deed alzo: zij maakte zich op, ging naar Sjilo en kwam in het huis van Ahia. Ahia nu kon niet meer zien, want zijn ogen stonden star van ouderdom;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Shiloh: 1 Kings 11:29, Joshua 18:1, 1 Samuel 4:3, 1 Samuel 4:4, Jeremiah 7:12-14

for his eyes: Genesis 27:1, Genesis 48:10, Deuteronomy 34:7, 1 Samuel 3:2, 1 Samuel 4:15, Psalms 90:10, Ecclesiastes 12:3

were set by reason of his age: Heb. stood for his hoariness

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 14:2 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Jeroboam's wife did so, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Abijah,.... Disguised herself, and took this long journey, and found the prophet's house; which she did partly in obedience to her husband, and partly from affection to her child: but Abijah could not see; her or anybody else that came into the room to him:

for his eyes were set by reason of his age; or "stood" fixed and immovable, as the eyes of blind men are; or the nerves and muscles of his eyes stood within the holes thereof, so that he could not see objects.