And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
Tirzah - the residence of an ancient king of Canaan; a place of pre-eminent beauty (Song of Solomon 6:4), and probably of great salubrity also, three hours traveling east of Samaria; chosen, when Israel became a separate kingdom, by the first monarch, in whose reign, 'it was to Shechem what Windsor is to London' (Porter's 'Handbook,' p.
348), and used during three short reigns (about 40 years) as a residence of the royal house (Joshua 12:24; 1 Kings 15:17-21). The fertile plains and wooded hills in that part of the territory of Ephraim gave an opening to the formation of parks and pleasure grounds similar to those which were the 'paradises' of Assyrian and Persian monarchs (Stanley, 'Sinai and Palestine,' p. 240). Its site is occupied by the large village of Tulluzah, next to Thebez (Tubas), district of Haritheh, north of Nabulus (Robinson's 'Biblical Researches,' 3:, p. 158; also Second Appendix). As soon as the queen reached the gate of the palace, she received the intelligence that her son was dying, according to the prophet's prediction.