George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
1 Kings 16:26
With their vanities. That is, their idols, their golden calves, vain, false, deceitful things.
With their vanities. That is, their idols, their golden calves, vain, false, deceitful things.
4. KINGS OF ISRAEL Chapter S 15:25-16 _ 1. Nadab, King of Israel (1 Kings 15:25)_ 2. Baasha, King of Israel (1 Kings 15:34; 1 Kings 16:1) 3. Elah, King of Israel ...
1 KINGS 15:33 TO 1 KINGS 16:34. BAASHA'S DYNASTY. RISE OF THE HOUSE OF OMRI. Nothing is told us of Baasha except the usual annalistic details, and, that a prophet named Jehu foretold the destruction o...
MADE ISRAEL TO SIN. See note on 1 Kings 14:16....
_in his sin_[R.V. SINS]. In the Hebrew text there is a various reading, the margin (_Keri_) having the singular, the text (_Kethib_) the plural, which the R.V. always translates where it can be done....
D. THE OMRI DYNASTY 16:21-34 The Omri dynasty ruled Israel for forty-four years. The closing verses of chapter 16 contain brief notices concerning (1) Omri's rise to power (1 Kings 16:21-22); (2) the...
_FOR HE WALKED IN ALL THE WAY OF JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT, AND IN HIS SIN WHEREWITH HE MADE ISRAEL TO SIN, TO PROVOKE THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL TO ANGER WITH THEIR VANITIES._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE...
THE REIGNS OF ELAH, ZIMRI, AND OMRI 1. Jehu the son of Hanani] Hanani is mentioned in 2 Chronicles 16:7. Jehu's denunciation of Baasha is similar to Ahijah's denunciation of Jeroboam (1 Kings 14:7)....
GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 16 V1 Then the *Lord spoke to Jehu the son of Hanani. He gave him this message for Baasha. V2 ‘You were not an important person, but I ma...
וַ יֵּ֗לֶךְ בְּ כָל ־דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ יָרָבְעָ֣ם בֶּ
THE KINGS OF ISRAEL FROM ZIMRI TO AHAB 1 Kings 16:11 As far as we can understand from our meager authorities-and we have no independent source of information-we infer that Elah, son of the powerful B...
PERSISTENCE IN SINFUL WAYS 1 Kings 16:15 These Chapter s afford a dreary record of apostasy and revolution, of idolatry and national disaster. Perhaps the great mass of the people-the peasantry-were...
Here we have the account of how Jehu was called on to exercise judgment against Baasha. This being accomplished, Elah succeeded Baasha on the throne of Israel. He was so corrupt as to be found "drinki...
(23) In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah. (24) And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of s...
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 HE WALKED IN THE WAY OF JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT, IN HIS SIN WHEREWITH HE MADE ISRAEL TO SIN,.... Worshipping the calves; TO PROVOKE THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL TO ANGER WITH THEIR VANITIES; these, a...
For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities. Ver. 26. _For he walked in a...
1.7 Iehus prophesie against Baasha. 5 Elah succeedeth him. 8 Zimri conspiring against Elah, succeedeth him. 11 Zimri executeth Iehus prophesie. 15 Omri made King by the souldiers, forceth Zimri de...
For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities, the idolatry and the calf-wo...
THE RULE OF OMRI AND OF AHAB...
The Lord had another servant to bring a solemn message to Baasha. Jehu, the son of Hanani, was the messenger at this time (v.1). Though the history records that Baasha had murdered his master to take...
15-28 When men forsake God, they will be left to plague one another. Proud aspiring men ruin one another. Omri struggled with Tibni some years. Though we do not always understand the rules by which G...
HE WALKED IN ALL THE WAY OF JEROBOAM, i.e. did not only promote the worship of the calves, as Jeroboam and all his successors hitherto had done; but did also imitate all Jeroboam's other sins, which d...
1 Kings 16:26 walked H3212 (H8799) ways H1870 Jeroboam H3379 son H1121 Nebat H5028 sin H2403 Israel H3478 sin...
THE REIGN OF OMRI KING OF ISRAEL C. 884-872 BC. (1 KINGS 16:21). We now come to the reign of one of Israel's greatest kings humanly speaking, even though from the divine viewpoint he was a disaster. Y...
CONTENTS: Evil reigns of Baasha, Elah, Zimri, Omri, Ahab kings of Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Baasha, Jehu, Elah, Zimri, Omri, Ahab, Jezebel, Tibni, Hiel, Segub. CONCLUSION: Destruction, when it comes,...
1 Kings 16:2. _I exalted thee._ Baasha was raised from the ranks to regal dignity. 1 Kings 16:7. _Jehu son of Hanani_ the prophet; the only case I think in which a Father and a son were so favoured....
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 16:15. DID ZIMRI REIGN SEVEN DAYS—A brief possession of a throne won by such criminal deeds! The Israelites repudiated the villainous usurper. 1 Kings 16:18....
EXPOSITION This division of chapters, immediately after the commencement of the narrative of the reign of Baasha, is somewhat unfortunate, inasmuch as it obscures the close connexion between the sin...
So the word of the LORD came to Jehu the prophet unto Baasha, saying, Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, made thee prince over my people Israel; and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, a...
1 Kings 12:26; 1 Kings 13:33; 1 Kings 13:34; 1 Kings 16:13;...
Did worse — Perhaps he made severer laws concerning the calf worship; whence we read of the statutes of Omri, Micah 6:16....