Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.’ For the LORD has spoken.
When those that set up idols, and keep them up, go to enquire of the Lord, he determines to answer them, not according to the pretensions of their enquiry, but according to the multitude of their idols, Eze 14:4. So Jeroboam is answered here. I. The prophet anticipates the enquiry concerning the child, and foretels the ruin of Jeroboam's house for the wickedness of it.
Commenting on 1 Kings 14:7-20
Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house,.... With all haste, as soon as she could: and when thy feet enter the city; the city of Tirzah, very probably the king's palace stood at the entry of it, see Kg1 14:17, the child shall die; this is an answer to the question she was to ask, and at the same time a token of...
Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken [it]. (i) They will lack the honour of burial in token of God's curse.