_BUT KING SOLOMON LOVED MANY STRANGE WOMEN, TOGETHER WITH THE DAUGHTER OF PHARAOH, WOMEN OF THE MOABITES, AMMONITES, EDOMITES, ZIDONIANS, AND HITTITES;_ But king Solomon loved many strange women, х_ NAAKRIYOWT_ (H5237), foreign women; Septuagint, Vatican, een filogunees; Alexandrine, philogunaios e... [ Continue Reading ]
_OF THE NATIONS CONCERNING WHICH THE LORD SAID UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, YE SHALL NOT GO IN TO THEM, NEITHER SHALL THEY COME IN UNTO YOU: FOR SURELY THEY WILL TURN AWAY YOUR HEART AFTER THEIR GODS: SOLOMON CLAVE UNTO THESE IN LOVE._ Solomon clave unto these in love - х_ DAABAQ_ (H1692)] - was at... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE HAD SEVEN HUNDRED WIVES, PRINCESSES, AND THREE HUNDRED CONCUBINES: AND HIS WIVES TURNED AWAY HIS HEART._ Wives, princesses. They were probably, according to an existing custom, the daughters of tributary chiefs, given as hostages for the good conduct of their fathers. CONCUBINES - were le... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN SOLOMON WAS OLD, THAT HIS WIVES TURNED AWAY HIS HEART AFTER OTHER GODS: AND HIS HEART WAS NOT PERFECT WITH THE LORD HIS GOD, AS WAS THE HEART OF DAVID HIS FATHER._ When Solomon was old. He could not have been more than 50. But his love of splendour was intense; and a long... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR SOLOMON WENT AFTER ASHTORETH THE GODDESS OF THE ZIDONIANS, AND AFTER MILCOM THE ABOMINATION OF THE AMMONITES._ Ashtoreth - plural, Ashtaroth (Astarte), a female divinity worshipped by the Sidonians (1 Kings 11:33; 2 Kings 23:13) [Septuagint, tee Astratee (cf. Genesis 14:5), the moon]. MILCOM... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SOLOMON DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, AND WENT NOT FULLY AFTER THE LORD, AS DID DAVID HIS FATHER._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN DID SOLOMON BUILD AN HIGH PLACE FOR CHEMOSH, THE ABOMINATION OF MOAB, IN THE HILL THAT IS BEFORE JERUSALEM, AND FOR MOLECH, THE ABOMINATION OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON._ Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh [Septuagint, Chamoos]. He was the tutelary divinity, the national idol of the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND LIKEWISE DID HE FOR ALL HIS STRANGE WIVES, WHICH BURNT INCENSE AND SACRIFICED UNTO THEIR GODS._ Burnt incense, and sacrificed unto their gods. The first was considered a higher act of homage, and is often used as synonymous with worship (2 Kings 22:17; 2 Kings 23:5). Thus the wisdom of the uxo... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD WAS ANGRY WITH SOLOMON, BECAUSE HIS HEART WAS TURNED FROM THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL,_ _ WHICH HAD APPEARED UNTO HIM TWICE,_ The Lord was angry with Solomon. The divine appearance, first at Gibeon, and then at Jerusalem, after the dedication of the temple, with the warnings given him on b... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HAD COMMANDED HIM CONCERNING THIS THING, THAT HE SHOULD NOT GO AFTER OTHER GODS: BUT HE KEPT NOT THAT WHICH THE LORD COMMANDED._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_HOWBEIT I WILL NOT REND AWAY ALL THE KINGDOM; BUT WILL GIVE ONE TRIBE TO THY SON FOR DAVID MY SERVANT'S SAKE, AND FOR JERUSALEM'S SAKE WHICH I HAVE CHOSEN._ I will give one tribe to thy son - i:e., the large and populous tribe of Judah, including the small tribe of Benjamin, which was contiguous,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD STIRRED UP AN ADVERSARY UNTO SOLOMON, HADAD THE EDOMITE: HE WAS OF THE KING'S SEED IN EDOM._ The Lord stirred up an adversary ... Hadad the Edomite х_ HªDAD_ (H1908), or _ 'ADAD_ (H1908) (1 Kings 11:17); Septuagint, Adad (the dynasty of the Hadads continued until the reign of David, th... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN DAVID WAS IN EDOM, AND JOAB THE CAPTAIN OF THE HOST WAS GONE UP TO BURY THE SLAIN, AFTER HE HAD SMITTEN EVERY MALE IN EDOM;_ When David was in Edom, [Septuagint, en too exolothreusai Dauid, ton Edoom] - when David had laid waste Edom. AND JOAB THE CAPTAIN OF THE HOST WAS... [ Continue Reading ]
_(FOR SIX MONTHS DID JOAB REMAIN THERE WITH ALL ISRAEL, UNTIL HE HAD CUT OFF EVERY MALE IN EDOM:)_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY AROSE OUT OF MIDIAN, AND CAME TO PARAN: AND THEY TOOK MEN WITH THEM OUT OF PARAN, AND THEY CAME TO EGYPT, UNTO PHARAOH KING OF EGYPT; WHICH GAVE HIM AN HOUSE, AND APPOINTED HIM VICTUALS, AND GAVE HIM LAND._ They arose out of Midian. [Thenius, in his 'Commentary,' suggests that instead of... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HADAD FOUND GREAT FAVOUR IN THE SIGHT OF PHARAOH, SO THAT HE GAVE HIM TO WIFE THE SISTER OF HIS OWN WIFE, THE SISTER OF TAHPENES THE QUEEN._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN PHARAOH SAID UNTO HIM, BUT WHAT HAST THOU LACKED WITH ME, THAT, BEHOLD, THOU SEEKEST TO GO TO THINE OWN COUNTRY? AND HE ANSWERED, NOTHING: HOWBEIT LET ME GO IN ANY WISE._ Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me ... ? The king of Egypt endeavoured in vain to dissuade him,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND GOD STIRRED HIM UP ANOTHER ADVERSARY, REZON THE SON OF ELIADAH, WHICH FLED FROM HIS LORD HADADEZER KING OF ZOBAH:_ God stirred ... up another adverse, Rezon the son of Eliadah, ... This man, who had probably been general of Hadadezer, and on the defeat of that great king (2 Samuel 8:3) had suc... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE GATHERED MEN UNTO HIM, AND BECAME CAPTAIN OVER A BAND, WHEN DAVID SLEW THEM OF ZOBAH: AND THEY WENT TO DAMASCUS, AND DWELT THEREIN, AND REIGNED IN DAMASCUS._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT, AN EPHRATHITE OF ZEREDA, SOLOMON'S SERVANT, WHOSE MOTHER'S NAME WAS ZERUAH, A WIDOW WOMAN, EVEN HE LIFTED UP HIS HAND AGAINST THE KING._ And Jereboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda х_ YAARAABª`AAM_ (H3379), Jarobeam (whose people is many)] - "son of Nebat,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THIS WAS THE CAUSE THAT HE LIFTED UP HIS HAND AGAINST THE KING: SOLOMON BUILT MILLO, AND REPAIRED THE BREACHES OF THE CITY OF DAVID HIS FATHER._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE MAN JEROBOAM WAS A MIGHTY MAN OF VALOUR: AND SOLOMON SEEING THE YOUNG MAN THAT HE WAS INDUSTRIOUS, HE MADE HIM RULER OVER ALL THE CHARGE OF THE HOUSE OF JOSEPH._ And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour х_ GIBOWR_ (H1368) _ CHAAYIL_ (H2428)] - mighty, in power, as of Nimrod (Genesis... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS AT THAT TIME WHEN JEROBOAM WENT OUT OF JERUSALEM, THAT THE PROPHET AHIJAH THE SHILONITE FOUND HIM IN THE WAY; AND HE HAD CLAD HIMSELF WITH A NEW GARMENT; AND THEY TWO WERE ALONE IN THE FIELD:_ The prophet Ahijah the Shilonite, х_ HA-SHIYLONIY_ (H7888)] (see the notes at 2 Samue... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AHIJAH CAUGHT THE NEW GARMENT THAT WAS ON HIM, AND RENT IT IN TWELVE PIECES:_ And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces. This is the first symbolical action recorded of a prophet. From the rude and imperfect state of language in early times, men would inse... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID TO JEROBOAM, TAKE THEE TEN PIECES: FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, BEHOLD, I WILL REND THE KINGDOM OUT OF THE HAND OF SOLOMON, AND WILL GIVE TEN TRIBES TO THEE:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND UNTO HIS SON WILL I GIVE ONE TRIBE, THAT DAVID MY SERVANT MAY HAVE A LIGHT ALWAY BEFORE ME IN JERUSALEM, THE CITY WHICH I HAVE CHOSEN ME TO PUT MY NAME THERE._ That David my servant may have a light, х_ NEEYR_ (H5216)] - a lamp; i:e., posterity (1 Kings 15:4; 2 Samuel 14:7); literally, that th... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I WILL TAKE THEE, AND THOU SHALT REIGN ACCORDING TO ALL THAT THY SOUL DESIRETH, AND SHALT BE KING OVER ISRAEL._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I WILL FOR THIS AFFLICT THE SEED OF DAVID, BUT NOT FOR EVER._ I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever. This affliction refers principally to the Babylonian captivity, from which few Israelites except those of the house of Judah, returned. The house of David was in successiv... [ Continue Reading ]
_SOLOMON SOUGHT THEREFORE TO KILL JEROBOAM. AND JEROBOAM AROSE, AND FLED INTO EGYPT, UNTO SHISHAK KING OF EGYPT, AND WAS IN EGYPT UNTIL THE DEATH OF SOLOMON._ Shishak - or Shishonk, according to the Egyptian monuments, who harboured and encouraged the rebellious refugee, was of a different dynasty... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE REST OF THE ACTS OF SOLOMON, AND ALL THAT HE DID, AND HIS WISDOM, ARE THEY NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE ACTS OF SOLOMON?_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SOLOMON SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS, AND WAS BURIED IN THE CITY OF DAVID HIS FATHER: AND REHOBOAM HIS SON REIGNED IN HIS STEAD._ Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead. Yahweh who was the head of the theocracy had (2 Samuel 7:1) REHOBOAM HIS SON REIGNED IN HIS STEAD. Yahweh, who was the head of the... [ Continue Reading ]