So act consistently with your wisdom, and don't let him die as a peaceful old man.

"Yes," he replied. "I have something to ask you about." "Talk," she told him.

"Because you asked for this, and you didn't ask for a long life for yourself, and you didn't ask for the lives of your enemies, but instead you've asked for discernment so you can understand how to govern, look how I'm going to do precisely what you asked. I'm giving you a wise and discerning mind, so that there will have been no one like you before you and no one will arise after you like you.

Meanwhile, the LORD had spoken to Ahijah, "Be on your guard! Jeroboam's wife is coming to ask you about her son, because he is ill. You're to say such and such to her. When she arrives, she will pretend to be someone else!"

So she went out and did precisely what Elijah told her to do. As a result, Elijah, the widow, and her son were fed for days.