When I am dead, &c — Tho' he was a lying prophet, yet he desired to die the death of a true prophet. Gather not my Soul with the sinners of Beth — el, but with this man of God: Because what he cried against the altar of Beth — el, shall surely come to pass. Thus by the mouth of two witnesses was it established, if possible to convince Jeroboam.
Verse 1 Kings 13:31. _LAY MY BONES BESIDE HIS BONES_] This argues a strong conviction in the mind of the old prophet, that the deceased was a good and holy man of God; and he is willing to have place...
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...
LAY MY BONES: i.e. lay them not with the bones of those referred to in 1 Kings 13:2. Compare 2 Kings 23:18....
_lay my bones beside his bones_ Here the LXX. adds -in order that my bones may be preserved along with his bones." And Josephus expands this idea thus: "for he would not be outraged after his death if...
D. THE LAMENTATION FOR THE MAN OF GOD 13:27-32 TRANSLATION (27) Then he spoke unto his sons, saying, saddle for me the donkey, and they saddled it. (28) And he went and found his carcass cast in the...
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, AFTER HE HAD BURIED HIM, THAT HE SPAKE TO HIS SONS, SAYING, WHEN I AM DEAD, THEN BURY ME IN THE SEPULCHRE WHEREIN THE MAN OF GOD IS BURIED; LAY MY BONES BESIDE HIS BONES:_ Bury...
LAY MY BONES, etc.] To prevent them from sharing the dishonour which the man of God had said would befall the graves at Bethel: see 2 Kings 23:17; 2 Kings 23:18. The moral conveyed by the fate of the...
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...
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...
(30-32) THEY MOURNED. — The mourning of the old prophet, and the burial of the body in his own sepulchre, probably show some touch of remorse and personal compassion for the victim of his treacherous...
וַ יְהִי֮ אַחֲרֵ֣י קָבְרֹ֣ו אֹתֹו֒ וַ יֹּ֤אמֶ
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...
SIGN UPON SIGN UNHEEDED 1 Kings 13:20 There is a tragic note in this paragraph. The man of God had performed God's errand bravely and well, and his words were verified by the result; but he perished...
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...
_Bones. Septuagint add, "that my bones may be saved along with his." The conduct and faith of this man would lead us to conclude that he had done wrong, without any malicious design, ver. 18. (Haydock...
(12) And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah. (13) And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled hi...
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...
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 IT CAME TO PASS, AFTER HE HAD BURIED HIM, THAT HE SPOKE TO HIS SONS, SAYING,.... He gave them the following charge: WHEN I AM DEAD, THEN BURY ME IN THE SEPULCHRE WHEREIN THE MAN OF GOD IS BURIED;...
And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God [is] buried; lay my bones beside his bones: Ver....
1 Kin. 13:31, 32. The old prophet orders that his corpse might be laid in the sepulcher of the man of God, and his bones by that prophet's bones, that so they might not be disturbed, and burnt on the...
_When I am dead_, &c. Though he was a lying prophet, yet he desired to die the death of a true prophet. Gather not my soul with the sinners of Beth-el, but with this man of God: because, _what he crie...
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...
And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulcher wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones;...
THE PROPHET PUNISHED FOR HIS DISOBEDIENCE...
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...
23-34 God is displeased at the sins of his own people; and no man shall be protected in disobedience, by his office, his nearness to God, or any services he has done for him. God warns all whom he em...
That I may be secured from that judgment threatened 1 KINGS 13:2....
1 Kings 13:31 after H310 buried H6912 (H8800) spoke H559 (H8799) sons H1121 saying H559 (H8800) dead...
THE OLD PROPHET AND THE MAN OF GOD (1 KINGS 13:11). Meanwhile dwelling in Bethel was an old prophet who had served YHWH for many years. The fact that he was not present at the celebrations taking pla...
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
_And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof._ ON THE CHARACTER OF THE OLD PROPHET OF BETHEL The most careful review of this man’s conduct does not make it easy to comprehen...
_Now there dwelt an old man in Bethel _ THE NAMELESS PROPHET This passage forms part of a very remarkable narrative. The miraculous element is so prominent that certain critics would have the chapte...
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 13:7 Jeroboam’s invitation to the MAN OF GOD to dine and receive a REWARD is an attempt to buy his loyalty, perhaps hoping for the curse on the altar to be reversed. The invita...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 13:11. AN OLD PROPHET IN BETHEL: who had been faithless amid surrounding faithlessness. His alertness to win the prophet of Judah to his house arose from (1)...
EXPOSITION THE DISOBEDIENCE AND DEATH OF THE MAN OF GOD.—The seduction of the man of God, who has borne such fearless witness against Jeroboam's ecclesiastical policy, and his tragical end, are now na...
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...
Ecclesiastes 8:10; Luke 16:22; Luke 16:23; Numbers 23:10; Psalms 26:9