Verse 2
2. Disguise thyself He would not have it known in Israel that his queen went on such an errand. It would show that neither his calves nor his self-made priests could help him in the time of trouble. His heart had become so infatuated and clouded by his false worship as to imagine that Jehovah’s prophet might not detect his guile. He dared not meet the old prophet, but sent his wife, for a sense of his own sins admonished him that he deserved condemnation, and would receive it if he went in person to Ahijah.
The prophet which told me that I should be king He now remembered, when his son seemed about to die, that the prophet had spoken of his having a sure house like David, (compare 1 Kings 11:38,) and he fondly clung to that hope, though he had failed in meeting its conditions.
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