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Selected Verse: 1 Kings 14:5 - Strong Concordance

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1Ki 14:5 Strong Concordance And the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto Ahijah [0281], Behold, the wife [0802] of Jeroboam [03379] cometh [0935] to ask [01875] a thing [01697] of thee for her son [01121]; for he is sick [02470]: thus [02090] and thus shalt thou say [01696] unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in [0935], that she shall feign herself to be another [05234] woman.
  King James And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Feign herself to be another woman - literally, "she shall make herself strange," i. e., "she shall come in disguised." So Kg1 14:6.
 
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6 And it was so, when Ahijah [0281] heard [08085] the sound [06963] of her feet [07272], as she came in [0935] at the door [06607], that he said [0559], Come in [0935], thou wife [0802] of Jeroboam [03379]; why feignest thou thyself to be another [05234]? for I am sent [07971] to thee with heavy [07186] tidings.