Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Kings 13:3
Gave a sign — That is, he then wrought a miracle, to assure them of the truth of his prophecy.
Gave a sign — That is, he then wrought a miracle, to assure them of the truth of his prophecy.
Verse 1 Kings 13:3. _AND HE GAVE A SIGN_] A miracle to prove that the prophecy should be fulfilled in its season....
HE GAVE A SIGN - A sign of this kind - an immediate prophecy to prove the divine character of a remote prophecy - had scarcely been given before this. In the later history, however, such signs are not...
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...
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...
A SIGN. We have similar signs in Exodus 3:12; 2 Kings 19:29; 2 Kings 20:8; Isaiah 7:14;...
_And he gave a sign the same day_ The sign was necessary because the event foretold was to be at so remote a date that none who were living in Jeroboam's day would be alive to see it. Hence to assure...
THERE CAME A MAN OF GOD— Commentators are not agreed who this prophet was, neither is there any foundation for so much as a conjecture. The prophesy, however, is one of the most remarkable that we hav...
I. DENUNCIATION OF JEROBOAM 13:1-32 Chapter 13 narrates a thought-provoking episode from the early history of the Northern Kingdom. The historical message of the chapter is clear. Because Jeroboam ha...
_AND HE GAVE A SIGN THE SAME DAY, SAYING, THIS IS THE SIGN WHICH THE LORD HATH SPOKEN; BEHOLD, THE ALTAR SHALL BE RENT, AND THE ASHES THAT ARE UPON IT SHALL BE POURED OUT._ No JFB commentary on these...
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...
A SIGN] The fulfilment of the prediction in 1 Kings 13:3 would be a warranty for the fulfilment of the prediction in 1 Kings 13:2 : cp. 1 Samuel 2:34; Isai
GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 13 A *PROPHET WARNS JEROBOAM The *kingdom that David and Solomon used to rule had divided into two *kingdoms. The northern *tribes were...
THE SIGN. — Both the signs, like most miraculous signs, shadow forth plainly the thing signified. The sign, announced to secure credence to the prediction, is itself a visible type of what that predic...
וְ נָתַן֩ בַּ † יֹּ֨ום הַ ה֤וּא...
JEROBOAM AND THE MAN OF GOD 1 Kings 13:1 "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God." - 1 John 4:1 WE are told that Jeroboam, whose position probably made him r...
JUDGMENT UPON WORTHLESS WORSHIP 1 Kings 13:1 What a noble name for anyone to bear- _a man of God!_ Yet we all might so bear the impress of God in our character that those who come in contact with us...
BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
In this chapter are two lessons of supreme value; first, the patient grace of God, and, second, the solemn responsibility of such as bear His message. The first of these is brought out in the story of...
And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This [is] the (c) sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that [are] upon it shall be poured out. (c) By this sign you...
_Sign. This would take place immediately, to convince the king that what he had said would be accomplished. So Moses and Achaz were treated, Exodus iii. 2, 12., and Isaias vii. 14, 16. (Calmet)_...
(2) And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he...
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 PROPHET OF JUDAH_ ‘The prophet of Judah.’ 1 Kings 13:1 The altar at Beth-el was an ill-omened altar. The shadow of ruin was on it from the first. On the very morning of its inauguration, when...
But the testimony and the judgment of God tarried not according to the mercy of God towards His people. Prophecy immediately re-appears; for the faithful love of God to His people never grows weary. H...
AND HE GAVE A SIGN THE SAME DAY, SAYING, THIS IS THE SIGN WHICH THE LORD HATH SPOKEN,.... As a confirmation of the truth of what the prophet had said, and for the proof of his being a true prophet of...
And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This [is] the sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that [are] upon it shall be poured out. Ver. 3. _Behold, the alt...
_He gave a sign the same day_ That is, he then wrought a miracle to assure them of the truth of his prophecy. _Saying, this is the sign,_ &c. A proof that I speak from God, and not from myself. _The a...
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...
JEROBOAM REPROVED FOR HIS SIN...
And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the Lord hath spoken: Behold, the altar shall be rent, utterly destroyed, torn to pieces, AND THE ASHES THAT ARE UPON IT SHALL BE POURED...
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...
1-10 In threatening the altar, the prophet threatens the founder and worshippers. Idolatrous worship will not continue, but the word of the Lord will endure for ever. The prediction plainly declared...
HE GAVE A SIGN THE SAME DAY, i. e. he then wrought a miracle, to assure them of the truth of his prophecy....
1 Kings 13:3 gave H5414 (H8804) sign H4159 day H3117 saying H559 (H8800) sign H4159 LORD H3068 spoken...
CONTENTS: Warning of punishment for idolatry. Disobedience and death of the prophet. CHARACTERS: God, Jeroboam, disobedient prophet, lying prophet. CONCLUSION: If we offer to God that which is an ab...
1 Kings 13:1. _Bethel._ See the notes on 1 Kings 12 1 Kings 12. The man of God from Judah is called Jaddo by Josephus. 1 Kings 13:2. _Josiah._ Cyrus is m
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 13:1 Just as Solomon had stood at his altar in Jerusalem (1 Kings 8:22), Jeroboam now stands at the altar of his new temple in Bethel, ready to dedicate it to his gods. However
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 13:3 Since Josiah’s reign is still a long way off, a SIGN is also described and then acted out. This indicates that the prophecy is true....
THE MYSTERIOUS PROPHET OF JUDAH CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 13:1. THERE CAME A MAN OF GOD: an unknown prophet. Josephus suggests _Jadon_, confounding him with Iddo (2 Chronicles 13:22),...
EXPOSITION THE TESTIMONY OF GOD AGAINST THE CALF WORSHIP.—We have in this chapter, which some commentators consider to be derived from a different source from the narratives which precede and follow i...
And so there came a young man out of Judah by the word of the LORD to Bethel: where Jeroboam was standing by the altar ready to burn incense. And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, an...
1 Corinthians 1:22; 1 Samuel 2:34; 2 Kings 20:8; Deuteronomy 13:1;...