disobedient unto the word The R.V. gives here as the A.V. in 1 Kings 13:21 unto the mouth. This is the literal rendering, and is as intelligible as the other. The LXX. (Vat.) gives for this verse only: -And he who brought him back from the way heard it and said, This is the man of God who rebelled against the word of the Lord." The next verse (27) is not represented at all in that version.
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...
DISOBEDIENT, by listening to the alleged word of an angel, instead of obeying the voice of Jehovah. See note on 1 Kings 13:18. WHICH HE SPAKE. Compare 1 Kings 13:22....
DISCOURSE: 340 THE DISOBEDIENT PROPHET SLAIN 1 Kings 13:26. _And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of...
C. THE CONDEMNATION OF THE MAN OF GOD 13:20-26 TRANSLATION (20) And it came to pass as they were sitting at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet who brought him back; (21) and h...
_AND, BEHOLD, MEN PASSED BY, AND SAW THE CARCASE CAST IN THE WAY, AND THE LION STANDING BY THE CARCASE: AND THEY CAME AND TOLD IT IN THE CITY WHERE THE OLD PROPHET DWELT._ 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...
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...
HE SAID, IT IS THE MAN OF GOD. — The old prophet did not know how his prediction was to be fulfilled, but recognised at once its supernatural fulfilment. There is in his words a characteristic reticen...
וַ יִּשְׁמַ֣ע הַ נָּבִיא֮ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הֱשִׁיבֹ֣ו...
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...
BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
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...
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...
(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 WHEN THE PROPHET THAT BROUGHT HIM BACK FROM THE WAY HEARD THEREOF,.... The old prophet, that had deceived him, by telling him a lie: HE SAID, IT IS THE MAN OF GOD, WHO WAS DISOBEDIENT UNTO THE WO...
And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard [thereof], he said, It [is] the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the...
_They came and told it in the city_ As a wonderful thing that the lion should neither fall upon his prey, nor hurt them who passed by, but suffer them to go on quietly, _Who was disobedient unto the w...
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 when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God who was disobedient unto the word of the Lord; therefore the Lord hath delivered him unto the lion,...
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...
TORN: _ Heb._ broken...
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...
Or rather, CONCERNING HIM; for so the particle _lamed_ is oft used, as GENESIS 10:13 PSALMS 3:2, PSALMS 91:11, compared with MATTHEW 4:6
1 Kings 13:26 prophet H5030 back H7725 (H8689) way H1870 heard H8085 (H8799) said H559 (H8799) man...
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...
1 Corinthians 11:30; 1 Kings 13:9; 1 Peter 4:17; 2 Samuel 12:10;...