George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
1 Kings 14:23
High hill. Such places of devotion had been tolerated, before the temple was built: but now they were deemed profane. (Calmet)
High hill. Such places of devotion had been tolerated, before the temple was built: but now they were deemed profane. (Calmet)
The words “they also” are emphatic. Not only did the Israelites make themselves high places 1Ki 12:31; 1 Kings 13:32, but the people of Judah also. The “high places,” which are said to have been “buil...
CHAPTER 14 THE PASSING OF JEROBOAM AND REHOBOAM _ 1. Sickness and death of Jeroboam's son (1 Kings 14:1)_ 2. Jeroboam's reign and death (1 Kings 14:19) 3. Rehoboam's apostasy, punishment and death...
REIGN OF REHOBOAM. The formula in 1 Kings 14:21 is regularly employed in Kings. The LXX make his age sixteen, and gives him twelve years. The name of the king's mother is given, since she, and not the...
GROVES. See note on Exodus 34:13, and App-42....
_high places_ We read constantly of -houses" of the high places, and it is to these erections on some lofty hills that the -building" here spoken of applies. See above, 1 Kings 12:31. _images_ The R.V...
I. THE FIRST THREE KINGS OF JUDAH 14:21-15:24 (931-870 B.C.) The first three kings of Judah ruled for sixty-one years. In this section the author speaks of (1) the apostasy of Rehoboam (1 Kings 14:21-...
_FOR THEY ALSO BUILT THEM HIGH PLACES, AND IMAGES, AND GROVES, ON EVERY HIGH HILL, AND UNDER EVERY GREEN TREE._ Groves, х_ 'ASHEERIYM_ (H842)] - Asherah, wooden or stone images of a symbolical tree,...
14:23 columns, (a-10) Or 'statues,' see Leviticus 26:1 ; Deuteronomy 7:5 ....
THE SINS OF JEROBOAM AND REHOBOAM AND THEIR PUNISHMENT 2. Shiloh] The modern Seilûn, N. of Bethel and E. of the road leading from Bethel to Shechem (Judges 21:19)....
IMAGES] RV 'pillars': for their significance see on 1 Kings 7:15....
GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 14 AHIJAH *PROPHESIES THE END OF JEROBOAM’S RULE OVER *ISRAEL V1 At that time, King Jeroboam’s son Abijah became ill. V2 Jeroboam said t...
HIGH PLACES, AND IMAGES, AND GROVES. — On the “high places,” see 1 Kings 3:2, and Note there. The “images” of this passage seem undoubtedly to have been stone pillars, as the “groves” (_i.e._, the ash...
וַ יִּבְנ֨וּ גַם ־הֵ֧מָּה לָהֶ֛ם בָּמֹ֥ות וּ
THE EARLIER KINGS OF JUDAH 1 Kings 14:21; 1 Kings 15:1 THE history of "the Jews" begins, properly speaking, from the reign of Rehoboam, and for four centuries it is mainly the history of the Davidic...
SOUTH RIVALS WORTH IN SINNING 1 Kings 14:17 Rehoboam's mother's name signifies _beauty_, and she may have been attractive in her person; but we are twice told that she was an Ammonitess, as if to emp...
In the story now recorded God is seen acting in judgment. The sickness of the son of Jeroboam was the first stroke of punishment and in connection therewith the prophet Ahijah uttered the doom of the...
(22) And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done. (23) For they also built them high...
Solomon was now at the height of his glory, a vivid type of a greater than Solomon. And it is only when we see that he really does thus prefigure the Lord Jesus as King that we can understand the impo...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 14, 15, AND 16. In spite of this testimony, Jeroboam perseveres in his sin. The only one of his sons in whom any piety is seen dies; and the judgment of God...
FOR THEY ALSO BUILT THEM HIGH PLACES,.... Which, though allowed of, or at least connived at, before the temple was built, and when the tabernacle was unfixed, yet afterwards unlawful; and the tribe of...
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. Ver. 23. _For they also built them high places._] They fell to foul idolatry and sodomy,...
_Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord_ In contempt and in defiance of him, and the tokens of his special presence. _They provoked him to jealousy_ By joining other gods together with him, as the ad...
1 Abijah being sicke, Ieroboam sendeth his wife disguised with Presents to the prophet Ahijah at Shiloh. 5 Ahijah forewarned by God, denounceth Gods iudgement. 17 Abijah dieth and is buried. 19 Nad...
THE RULE OF REHOBOAM...
For they also built them high places, altars for the purpose of idolatrous worship on prominent hills, AND IMAGES, memorial stones usually consecrated to the heathen idol Baal, AND GROVES, the wooden...
JEREBOAM WARNED THROUGH HIS SON'S DEATH Though God had sought to reach Jereboam's conscience by the message and actions of the man of God, this produced no effect. So God used another means, by the se...
IMAGES: Or, standing images, or statues...
21-31 Here is no good said of Rehoboam, and much said to the disadvantage of his subjects. The abounding of the worst crimes, of the worst of the heathen, in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen f...
THEY ALSO BUILT THEM HIGH PLACES; they followed the example of the Israelites, although they were better instructed, and had the temple in their kingdom, and liberty of access to it, which was denied...
1 Kings 14:23 built H1129 (H8799) places H1116 pillars H4676 images H842 high H1364 hill H1389 green H7488 tree...
THE REIGN OF REHOBOAM OF JUDAH C. 930-913 BC (1 KINGS 14:21). The sad thing about Rehoboam's reign would be its extreme bankruptcy. He reigned over a country which went to the excess in religious apos...
CONTENTS: Prophecy against Jeroboam and partial fulfillment. Judah's apostacy under Rehoboam and his death. CHARACTERS: God, Ahijah, Jeroboam, Rehoboam, Shishak, wife and son of Jeroboam. CONCLUSION:...
1 Kings 14:2. _Ahijah the prophet;_ an illustrious man of God, now full of days, and full of grace. 1 Kings 14:3. _Ten loaves._ A rustic present, that it might not excite suspicion of a royal visit. I...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 14:21__ The text now returns to Rehoboam’s reign and what has been happening in Judah. ⇐...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 14:22 JUDAH DID WHAT WAS EVIL. The whole nation has become involved in idolatrous worship. ⇐...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 14:23 HIGH PLACES and ASHERIM (see notes on 3:2; 14:15) are aspects of Judah’s idolatrous worship....
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 14:21. From incidents associated with the kingdom of ISRAEL, the historian now turns to JUDAH. 1 Kings 14:28. NAAMAH AN AMMONITESS—_Sept._ reads: “Daughter of...
EXPOSITION THE REIGN OF REHOBOAM.— 1 KINGS 14:21 AND REHOBOAM, THE SON OF SOLOMON, REIGNED IN JUDAH. REHOBOAM WAS FORTY [or twenty. See on 1 Kings 12:1] and one years old when he
So at that time his son Abijah became sick. And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that they won't know you as the wife of Jeroboam; and go to Shiloh: for there is a...
1 Kings 3:2; 2 Chronicles 28:4; 2 Kings 17:10; 2 Kings 17:9; 2 K
They also — Followed the example of the Israelites, although they were better instructed, and had the temple in their kingdom, and liberty of access to it, and the privilege of worshipping God in his...