Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Kings 22:53
His father, &c. — Most unhappy parents, that thus help to damn their own children's souls!
His father, &c. — Most unhappy parents, that thus help to damn their own children's souls!
CHAPTER 22 THE DEATH OF AHAB _ 1. Jehoshaphat and Ahab (1 Kings 22:1)_ 2. The prophet Micaiah (1 Kings 22:13) 3. The battle and Ahab's death (1 Kings 22:29) 4. Jehoshaphat of Judah ...
_for_[R.V. AND] _he served Baal_ This is an additional count in his wickedness, not an explanation of what is contained in the verse before. Hence the change. The LXX., instead of -according to all th...
III. FAITHLESS AHAZIAH AND FEARLESS ELIJAH 1 Kings 22:52, 2 Kings 1:18 The last public, i.e., official, prophetic appearance of Elijah occurred during the brief reign of Ahaziah the son of Ahab. Afte...
AHAB AND MICAIAH. AHAB'S DEATH AT RAMOTH-GLLEAD. REIGN OF JEHOSHAPHAT, KING OF JUDAH 1. Three years] probably calculated from the peace described in 1 Kings 20:34....
GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 22 THE *PROPHET MICAIAH V1 There was peace between Syria and *Israel for almost three years. V2 In the third year Jehoshaphat, king of *...
_[1 Kings 22:54]_ וַֽ יַּעֲבֹד֙ אֶת ־הַ בַּ֔עַל...
“BROKEN SHIPS” 1 Kings 22:41 Further details of Jehoshaphat's good reign are given in 2 Chronicles 17:1; 2 Chronicles 18:1;...
The final movement in the downfall of Ahab is here chronicled. Jehoshaphat visited Ahab, who suggested the alliance against the king of Syria. Jehoshaphat suggested an appeal to Jehovah. Ahab produced...
(51) Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel. (52) And he did evil in the sight of the LORD,...
REFLECTIONS READER! let us not close this first book of the Kings without taking with it into our minds the many gracious lessons the great author of it evidently intended that the church in all ages...
The days were very dark in Israel. Not only rebellion. And rebellion, always serious, was peculiarly so in Israel, for there it was insubordination in a direct manner against not only God's providence...
The last chapter presents another element of this history, namely, the guilty alliances which were formed between the royal families of Israel and Judah. Both of them prosperous at this period, they s...
FOR HE SERVED BAAL, AND WORSHIPPED HIM,.... That is, Ahaziah served him, as his father had done, and his mother still did: AND PROVOKED TO ANGER THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, ACCORDING TO ALL THAT HIS FATH...
For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done. Ver. 53. _According to all, &c._] An ill egg of an ill bird, as they s...
1 Ahab seduced by false prophets, according to the word of Micaiah, is slaine at Ramoth Gilead. 37 The dogges licke vp his blood, and Ahaziah succeedeth him. 41 Iehoshaphats good reigne, 45 his act...
for he served Baal, and worshiped him, and provoked to anger the Lord God of Israel, according to all that his father had done. The terrible end of his father had not taught this idolater the lesson w...
JEHOSHAPHAT IN JUDAH, AHAZIAH IN ISREAL...
AHAB WARNED BUT DETERMINED (vs.1-28) Three years later the show of repentance on Ahab's part had worn off. There had been no war between Israel and Syria, but rather than leaving matters as they were...
51-53 Ahaziah's reign was very short, not two years; some sinners God makes quick work with. A very bad character is given of him; he listened not to instruction, took no warning, but followed the ex...
No text from Poole on this verse....
1 Kings 22:53 served H5647 (H8799) Baal H1168 worshiped H7812 (H8691) provoked H3707 LORD H3068 God H430 Israel...
THE REIGN OF AHAZIAH KING OF ISRAEL C. 853-852 BC (1 KINGS 22:51 - 2 KINGS 1:18). Ahaziah, Ahab's son and king of Israel, only had a short reign of a few months (two part years) but he amply succeeded...
CONTENTS: Alliance of Ahab and Jehosophat. Ahab's ultimate defeat. CHARACTERS: God, Jehoshaphat, Ahab, Micaiah, Zedekiah, Syrian king, false prophets, Ahaziah. CONCLUSION: He who joins himself in af...
1 Kings 22:2. _Jehoshaphat_ had married his son Jehoram to Athaliah, daughter of Jezebel; probably from the idea that the connection would prevent internal war for the future: oh fatal mistake! 1 King...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 22:41 Jehoshaphat and Ahaziah. Both Jehoshaphat and Ahaziah have already appeared in 1 Kings 1:1 as characters in Ahab’s story. They are, respect
_HOMILETICS OF 1 Kings 22:51_ THE POWER OF EVIL TO PERPETUATE ITSELF I. THAT EVIL PERPETUATES ITSELF BY THE FORCE OF PARENTAL TRAINING AND EXAMPLE (1 Kings 22:52). Ahaziah was cursed with a wicked an...
EXPOSITION THE EXPEDITION OF AHAB AND JEHOSHAPHAT AGAINST HRAMOTH-GILEAD. THE DEATH OF AHAB. THE REIGNS OF JEHOSHAPHAT AND AHAZIAH....
So they went for three years without war between Syria and Israel. And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat who was the king of the southern tribes Judah, he came up to visit Ahab. And...
1 Kings 16:31; 1 Kings 16:7; 1 Kings 21:29; 2 Kings 1:2; 2 Kings 3:2;...