The effeminate. Catamites, or men addicted to unnatural lust. (Challoner) --- This crime had been punished in the Sodomites, and in the people of Chanaan, and of Benjamin. Yet they continued prevalent in the country, chap. xv. 12., and 4 Kings xxiii. 7., and Isaias ii. 6., and 2 Machabees iv. 12. (Calmet) --- These were perpetrated in honour of Venus, Priapus, &c. (Menochius) See Deuteronomy xxiii. 17. (Haydock)
Verse 1 Kings 14:24. _THERE WERE ALSO SODOMITES IN THE LAND_] קדשים _kedeshim,_ _consecrated persons_; persons who had devoted themselves, in practices of the greatest impurity, to the service of the...
SODOMITES - literally, ” (men) consecrated.” The men in question were in fact “consecrated” to the mother of the gods, the famous “Dea Syra,” whose priests, or rather devotees, they were considered to...
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...
SODOMITES. Committers of the sin of Sodom (Genesis 19). Male prostitutes, dedicated to idolatry involving this sin. Connected with the _'Asherah._ App-42. Compare Deuteronomy 23:17; Deuteronomy 15:12....
_which the Lord cast_(R.V. DRAVE) _out_ The change of R.V. brings the expression into harmony with nearly all the rest of the places where this verb occurs. The same alteration is needed in 1 Kings 21...
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-...
_AND THERE WERE ALSO SODOMITES IN THE LAND: AND THEY DID ACCORDING TO ALL THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE NATIONS WHICH THE LORD CAST OUT BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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)....
SODOMITES] Persons who dedicated themselves to the impure rites which were observed in honour of certain deities in the neighbourhood of their temples....
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...
SODOMITES. — See 1 Kings 15:12; 2 Kings 23:7. There is a horrible significance in the derivation of this word, which is properly “consecrated,” or “devoted;” for it indicates the license, and even the...
וְ גַם ־קָדֵ֖שׁ הָיָ֣ה בָ † אָ֑רֶץ...
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...
And there were also sodomites in the (q) land: [and] they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. (q) Where idolatry reigns, all ho...
(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...
AND THERE WERE ALSO SODOMITES IN THE LAND, e.] Such as were addicted to unnatural lusts between men and men, which the men of Sodom were guilty of, from whence they had their name: Jarchi interprets t...
And there were also sodomites in the land: [and] they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. Ver. 24. _And there were also sodomit...
_There were also sodomites in the land_ The kind of wickedness here referred to often attended idolatry, 1 Kings 15:12; 2 Kings 23:7; for among the heathen the most filthy things were practised in the...
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...
And there were also Sodomites in the land, men or boys from the surrounding nations who permitted themselves to be prostituted in honor of the gods; AND THEY DID ACCORDING TO ALL THE ABOMINATIONS OF T...
THE RULE OF REHOBOAM...
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...
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...
SODOMITES, i.e. males, who prostituted their bodies to the filthy lusts of others; of whom SEE POOLE ON "DEUTERONOMY 23:17"; who also did this in the worship and to the honour of their idols as also t...
1 Kings 14:24 persons H6945 land H776 did H6213 (H8804) abominations H8441 nations H1471 LORD H3068 out H3423 ...
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 14:24 MALE CULT PROSTITUTES. Worship under Rehoboam included prostitution. The people may have seen it as a way to persuade the gods and goddesses to deliver fertility to the l...
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 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Kings 15:12; 1 Kings 22:46; 2 Kings 23:7;...
Abomination — They dishonoured God by one sin, and then God left them to dishonour themselves by another....