Ahijah

A prophet from Shiloh who played a decisive role in the division of Israel's monarchy. He met Jeroboam on a road outside Jerusalem, tore his own new cloak into twelve pieces, and gave ten to Jeroboam — a vivid symbolic act prophesying that God would tear ten tribes from Solomon's son because of Solomon's idolatry (1 Kings 11:29-39). Years later, when Jeroboam's son fell ill, Jeroboam sent his wife in disguise to consult the now-blind Ahijah, who recognized her immediately and pronounced the total destruction of Jeroboam's dynasty as judgment for his establishment of golden-calf worship at Dan and Bethel.