Verse 1 Kings 13:2. _HE CRIED AGAINST THE ALTAR_] He denounced the destruction of this idolatrous system. _A CHILD SHALL BE BORN - JOSIAH BY NAME_] This is one of the most remarkable and most singul...
A CHILD SHALL BE BORN ... JOSIAH BY NAME - Divine predictions so seldom descend to such particularity as this, that doubts are entertained, even by orthodox theologians, with respect to the actual men...
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...
O ALTAR, ALTAR. Figures of speech _Apostrophe_ and _E_ pizeuxis. CHILD. son. JOSIAH BY NAME. Cyrus is the only other so foretold (177 years before). Josiah knew (2 Kings 23:17; 2 Kings 23:18). Cyrus...
_he cried against the altar in the word of the Lord_ The Hebrew is the same as in the preceding verse. Render therefore (with R.V.) -by the word." The meaning is that both the journey from Judah and t...
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 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 OF...
13:2 sacrifice (a-39) Or 'slay,' same as Deuteronomy 12:15 ....
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...
THUS SAITH THE LORD. — This is one of those rather unfrequent prophecies found in Holy Scripture, which, not content to foreshadow the future in general outline, descend to striking particularity of d...
וַ יִּקְרָ֤א עַל ־הַ מִּזְבֵּ֨חַ֙ בִּ דְבַ֣ר
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...
Altar, in which the prodigy was to take place, for the instruction of all. (Menochius) --- Name: 340 (Calmet) or 350 years after. (Salien) --- This prediction proves the truth of the religion; for, th...
(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 CRIED AGAINST THE ALTAR IN THE WORD OF THE LORD,.... By his order and command: AND SAID, O ALTAR, ALTAR; addressing himself not to Jeroboam, but the altar, thereby reproving his stupidity, the...
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 off...
_He cried against the altar_ And consequently against all the worship performed at it. _O altar, altar_ He directs his speech against the altar, because the following signs were to be wrought upon it....
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 he, the prophet, CRIED AGAINST THE ALTAR IN THE WORD OF THE LORD, his addressing the altar making his words all the more significant and emphatic, AND SAID, O ALTAR, ALTAR, THUS SAITH THE LORD: BE...
JEROBOAM REPROVED FOR HIS SIN...
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 CRIED AGAINST THE ALTAR; and consequently, against all that worship, which is oft signified by the name of the _altar_. See Isaiah 19:19 1 Corinthians 9:13 Hebrews 7:13,...
1 Kings 13:2 out H7121 (H8799) altar H4196 word H1697 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) altar H4196 altar...
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
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...
2 Chronicles 34:1; 2 Chronicles 34:4; 2 Kings 22:1; 2 Kings 22:2;...
The altar — And consequently, against all that worship. O altar — He directs his speech to the altar, because the following signs were wrought upon it. Josiah — Which being done above three hundred ye...