A light, i.e. a son and successor, to preserve his name and memory, and to give light to the people in his stead. Kings are oft called lights, partly from their great splendour, and partly for the counsel and comfort which their people have or should have from them. Compare 2 Samuel 21:17 1 Kings 15:4 Psalms 132:17. Alway before me; in my presence, which is in Jerusalem, and under my favour and protection.
Verse 36. _THAT DAVID MY SERVANT MAY HAVE A LIGHT ALWAY_] That his posterity may never fail, and the regal line never become extinct. This, as we have already seen, was in reference to the Messiah. He...
THAT DAVID MAY HAVE A LIGHT - Compare the marginal references. The exact meaning of the expression is doubtful. Perhaps the best explanation is, that “light” here is taken as the essential feature of...
7. SOLOMON'S FAILURE: JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED AND THE BEGINNING OF DISRUPTION CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Solomon's polygamy and departure from God (1 Kings 11:1)_ 2. Hadad the Edomite (1 Kings 11:14) 3. Rezon the...
SIN OF SOLOMON, AND THE ADVERSARIES RAISED UP IN CONSEQUENCE. From various differences in the arrangement of the earlier verses in the LXX and Heb., it has been supposed that in its original form the...
LIGHT. lamp. Compare the "furnace" of 1 Kings 8:51, and see note on Genesis 15:17. Compare 2 Kings 8:19; Psalms 18:28;...
_one tribe_ Here again, as in 32, the LXX. has -two tribes." _a light_ Literally -a lamp." The idea is quite an Oriental one. In the tent was hung the lamp, for constant lighting, and the permanency o...
D. THE REBELLION OF JEROBOAM 11:26-40 TRANSLATION (26) And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, even he raised up a hand aga...
_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 l...
SOLOMON'S ERRORS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES. HIS DEATH This chapter furnishes an account of Solomon's marriages with numerous foreign princesses, and traces the evil effect of such in the toleration of i...
A LIGHT] cp. Psalms 132:17 and contrast Job 18:6. The figure is drawn from the fire or lamp which is usually associated with a permanent habitation....
GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 11 SOLOMON *WORSHIPS FALSE GODS V1 Solomon, however, loved many foreign women. He married the daughter of the king of Egypt. He also mar...
TAKE THEE TEN PIECES. — The message delivered by Ahijah first repeats exactly the former warning to Solomon (1 Kings 11:9), marking, by the two reserved pieces of the garment, the duality of the “one...
וְ לִ בְנֹ֖ו אֶתֵּ֣ן שֵֽׁבֶט ־אֶחָ֑ד לְמַ֣עַן
HOLLOW PROSPERITY 1 Kings 11:1 "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity." - Ecclesiastes 1:2 "At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass of ra...
THE WIND AND THE WHIRLWIND 1 Kings 11:14 "He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption." - Galatians 6:8 SUCH degeneracy could not show itself in the king without danger to his pe...
THE KINGDOM PROMISED TO HIS SERVANT 1 Kings 11:26 The opening Chapter s of Jeroboam's life were very promising. He sprang from the ranks of the toilers, but his business talent attracted the notice o...
BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
At this point the story of Solomon suddenly changes. The glory passes away, and we observe his rapid degeneracy and doom. The nature of the man had ever a strong animal side. His commercial enterprise...
And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a (q) light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there. (q) He refers to the Messiah, wh...
_A lamp. Posterity, (2 Kings xxi. 17.) power, and glory, 4 Kings viii. 19._...
(29) 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 alo...
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 11 AND 12. Till now we have had the beautiful picture of God's blessing resting upon the son of David, whose only desire it had been to possess wisdom from Go...
AND UNTO HIS SON WILL I GIVE ONE TRIBE,.... Judah and Benjamin reckoned as one; 1 Kings 11:13, that David my servant may have a light always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to...
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. Ver. 36. _May have a light alway._]...
1 Solomons wiues and concubines. 4 In his old age they draw him to idolatry. 9 God threatneth him. 14 Solomons aduersaries were Hadad, who was intertained in Egypt, 23 Rezon who reigned in Damascu...
And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David, my servant, for whose sake all these merciful concessions were made, MAY HAVE A LIGHT ALWAY BEFORE ME IN JERUSALEM, for the upholding of his family,...
Solomon's Adversaries and Death...
MANY MARRIAGES LEADING TO IDOLATRY (vs.1-13) Solomon also disobeyedDeuteronomy 17:17 in making many marriages with foreign women, from the Moabites, Alnmonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites (v.1)...
LIGHT: _ Heb._ lamp or candle...
26-40 In telling the reason why God rent the kingdom from the house of Solomon, Ahijah warned Jeroboam to take heed of sinning away his preferment. Yet the house of David must be supported; out of it...
1 Kings 11:36 son H1121 give H5414 (H8799) one H259 tribe H7626 servant H5650 David H1732 always H3117 lamp...
JEROBOAM THE REBEL (1 KINGS 11:26). Because Solomon had not responded to YHWH's chastening and had grievously sinned YHWH, now raised up one who was to be given the large part of Solomon's kingdom. H...
YHWH RAISES UP THREE ADVERSARIES TO SOLOMON (1 KINGS 11:14). At the commencement of his reign Solomon had had to deal with three rebels against the throne, Adonijah, Abiathar and Joab and Shimei (1 Ki...
CONTENTS: Solomon's heart turned. Chastened of God. Rise of Jeroboam. Death of Solomon. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, Hadad, Pharaoh, Rezon, Jeroboam, Adoram, Ahijah. CONCLUSION: The way of sin is down h...
1 Kings 11:1. _Solomon loved many strange women,_ of gentile nations, and was connected with them. To this day thousands of women in India are married to great men merely as a mark of honour, and they...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 11:1 Throughout chs. 1 Kings 1:1 there have been hints that all is not well with Solomon’s heart. Now comes the inevitable conclusion: Solomon’s sins have led him to apostasy.
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 11:34 A LAMP BEFORE ME IN JERUSALEM. Solomon will lose no tribes during his lifetime. His son is to have one tribe, to preserve the line of Davidic kings....
_HOMILETICS OF 1 Kings 11:14_ THE AGENTS OF DIVINE RETRIBUTION I. ARE SECRETLY PREPARING WHEN LEAST SUSPECTED. Hadad and Rezon on the frontier, and Jeroboam under the shadow of the throne, were plott...
EXPOSITION SOLOMON'S ADVERSARIES.—As the historian has collected together in 1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 7:1; 1 Kings 8:1, all the information he can convey respecting the _temple, _and
Chapter eleven. But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughters of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites (1 Kings 11:1); Now turn back fo...
1 Kings 11:13; 1 Kings 15:4; 1 Kings 9:3; 2 Chronicles 21:7; 2 Kin