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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

1 Kings 13:33

CHAPTER XIII.

Way. Every thing promotes the salvation of the just, while the wicked pervert the most gracious designs of Providence to their own ruin. The king concluded that the prediction deserved no regard, ver. 18. (Calmet) --- Meanest. Chap. xii. 31. Thus he wished to eradicate all sense of religion. (Haydock) --- His, suam, "own." Any person who brought the oil and the necessary victims, might assume the office of priest. See Exodus xxviii. 41. (Haydock)

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See also 1 Kings 13:33 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Kings 13:33. _JEROBOAM RETURNED NOT FROM HIS EVIL WAY_] There is something exceedingly obstinate and perverse, as well as blinding and infatuating, in idolatry. The prediction lately delivere...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHOSOEVER WOULD, HE CONSECRATED HIM - i. e., he exercised no discretion, but allowed anyone to become a priest, without regard to birth, character, or social position. We may suspect from this that th...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. JEROBOAM AND REHOBOAM AND THEIR REIGN CHAPTER 13 The Man of God from Judah _ 1. The man of God and Jeroboam (1 Kings 13:1)_ 2. The temptation and lying message (1 Kings 13:11) 3. Judgment annou...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    1 Kings 12:25 to 1 Kings 13:34. THE SIN OF JEROBOAM. THE PROPHET AT BETHEL. The sources cannot be exactly determined. Some (see Cent.B) may belong to the annals of the northern kingdom, but the tone i...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BECAME ONE OF THE PRIESTS. Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulg, reads "became priest"....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jeroboam goes on in his evil way (Not in Chronicles) 33. _made again of the lowest of the people_ R.V. MADE AGAIN FROM AMONG ALL THE PEOPLE. See note on 1 Kings 12:31 above. _he consecrated him_ The...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    E. THE DEPRECATION OF JEROBOAM 13:33-34 TRANSLATION (33) After this thing, Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but again made priests of the high places from all classes of the people. Anyone w...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    13:33 classes (b-16) Lit. 'the ends,' as in ch. 12.31....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    CONSECRATED] see on Exodus 28:41; Exodus 29:24....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DISOBEDIENT PROPHET 2. Josiah] for the fulfilment see 2 Kings 23:15. Some 300 years separated the prediction from the event, and the mention by name of the king destined to accomplish it is unlike...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WHOSOEVER WOULD. — See 1 Kings 12:32. The emphatic tone of the words, “whosoever would, he consecrated him,” possibly indicates that, in spite of all that Jeroboam and his prophet could do, there was...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אַחַר֙ הַ דָּבָ֣ר הַ זֶּ֔ה לֹֽא ־שָׁ֥ב

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _JEROBOAM’S SIN_ ‘After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way.’ 1 Kings 13:33 ‘After this thing,’ viz., such a succession of miracles and prophecies as we can hardly find elsewhere in...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Ieroboams hand, that offered violence to him that prophesied against his altar at Bethel, withereth, 6 and at the prayer of the Prophet is restored. 7 The Prophet, refusing the kings intertainment...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PROPHET PUNISHED FOR HIS DISOBEDIENCE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    A SOLEMN MESSAGE FROM GOD (vs.1-10) God would not leave Jereboam without clear witness to God's abhorrence of the evil that Jereboam had introduced in Israel. The Lord sent a man of God from Judah to...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    MADE AGAIN: _ Heb._ returned and made CONSECRATED HIM: _ Heb._ filled his hand...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    23-34 God is displeased at the sins of his own people; and no man shall be protected in disobedience, by his office, his nearness to God, or any services he has done for him. God warns all whom he em...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Kings 13:33 After H310 event H1697 Jeroboam H3379 turn H7725 (H8804) evil H7451 way H1870 again H7725 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A SUMMARY EMPHASISING JEROBOAM'S FAILURE TO REPENT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES (1 KINGS 13:33). Having told the full story of Jeroboam's failure to obey YHWH, and the prophetic witness that had cast condemna...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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