Jeroboam's wife

She is unnamed in the Masoretic Text, but according to the Septuagint, she was an Egyptian princess called Ano: She is mentioned in 1 Kings 14, which describes how she visited the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite.

This included the death of her son, who was to die as soon as Jeroboam's wife came back home to Tirzah.

13, in which there is a reference to "some good thing [found in him] toward the Lord God of Israel," is interpreted (M. Ḳ.

28b) as an allusion to Abijah's courageous and pious act in removing the sentinels placed by his father on the frontier between Israel and Judah to prevent pilgrimages to Jerusalem.

Robin Gallaher Branch calls her "flat, vapid, and overwhelmingly sad",[3] while Adele Berlin says that she is "intentionally not portrayed as a real individual in her own right", but that her characterization should be viewed as "the effective use of an anonymous character to fill an important literary function".