1 Kings 14:18
And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet. And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.
The verse closes the story of Jeroboam's wife coming in disguise to the prophet Ahijah. It records the fulfillment of the word the Lord had spoken through Ahijah about Jeroboam's offspring, that the child Abijah died and was buried and all Israel mourned for him. Ahijah lived at Shiloh, about six hours south of Nablus, on high ground beside a fertile valley. Shiloh was once central for Israel as the place where the tabernacle was set up under Joshua and the land was divided by lot, where Eli officiated and Samuel served, and from which the ark was taken to battle and captured by the Philistines never to return, and it is now nothing but a wilderness of rocks and stones.
The verse falls within the history of the separate kingdoms of Judah and Israel, covering roughly eighty years from the revolt of the ten tribes to the death of Jehoshaphat. It belongs to a sad historical record of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel marked by general moral decline from David's time, though there were periods of revival. That record teaches that when the people sought God He worked abundantly for and through them, and that leaders bore great responsibility because their faithfulness or failure strongly shaped the people.
The chapter containing the verse gives an account of an event. That same event is also described more fully in 2 Chronicles 12. The event is connected with Shishak's campaign as recorded on the walls of the Karnak temple.