Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Kings 14:22
In the sight of the Lord — In contempt and defiance of him, and the tokens of his special presence. Jealousy — As the adulterous wife provokes her husband, by breaking the marriage covenant.
In the sight of the Lord — In contempt and defiance of him, and the tokens of his special presence. Jealousy — As the adulterous wife provokes her husband, by breaking the marriage covenant.
This defection of Judah did not take place until Rehoboam’s fourth year (marginal reference). THEY PROVOKED HIM TO JEALOUSY - Compare Exodus 20:5; and on the force of the metaphor involved in the wor...
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...
JEALOUSY. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6....
_did evil_ R.V. DID THAT WHICH WAS EVIL. The Hebrew text is better represented by this fuller translation. _provoked him to jealousy_ Jehovah had called himself a _jealous_God, when the Law was given...
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 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._ 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)....
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...
FORTY AND ONE YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN. — It has been noticed that the age of forty-one assigned to Rehoboam at his accession, here and in the Chronicles (both in the Hebrew text and the ancie...
וַ יַּ֧עַשׂ יְהוּדָ֛ה הָ רַ֖ע בְּ עֵינֵ֣י
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...
(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 JUDAH DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD,.... At the end of three years, from the beginning of the reign of Rehoboam: AND THEY PROVOKED HIM TO JEALOUSY, WITH THEIR SINS WHICH THEY HAD COMMITTED, A...
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. Ver. 22. _And Judah did evil._] _Qualis...
_Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord_ In contempt and in defiance of him, and the tokens of his special presence. _They provoked him to jealousy_ By joining other gods together with him, as the ad...
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 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. Cf 2 Chronicles 11:5; 2 Chronicles 12:1....
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...
JUDAH DID EVIL, after a little time, 2 CHRONICLES 11:17....
1 Kings 14:22 Judah H3063 did H6213 (H8799) evil H7451 sight H5869 LORD H3068 jealousy H7065 (H8762) sins...
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. ⇐...
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 10:22; 1 Kings 14:9; 1 Kings 16:30; 2 Chronicles 12:1;...