Jeroboam's Wife Arose and Departed and Came to the Threshold of the House, the Child Died

Jeroboam's wife didn't say anything. There was no speech by her. She arose and departed. It's like she listened to the prophet, she went home, walked into the house, the child died. How much better would it have been to tear your garments, put on sackcloth, throw ashes and dirt on your head, cry out, confess, lament, repent, all that stuff that is supposed to happen? And maybe it would have changed things. Maybe it wouldn't have. But that's the biblical model. You don't just simply hear the prophet's words, acquiesce, and in a kind of a Spartan sort of way. So I guess that's what