Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
1 Kings 13:18
But he lied unto him - It is always to be remembered that the prophetic gift might co-exist with various degrees of moral imperfection in the person possessing it. Note especially the case of Balaam.
But he lied unto him - It is always to be remembered that the prophetic gift might co-exist with various degrees of moral imperfection in the person possessing it. Note especially the case of Balaam.
Verse 1 Kings 13:18. _AN ANGEL SPAKE UNTO ME_] That _he lied unto him_ is here expressly asserted, and is amply proved by the event. But why should he deceive him? The simple principle of curiosity t...
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...
AN ANGEL SPAKE.. solemn warning for all who listen to any revelation outside Scripture which purports to come from God, even though an "old prophet" asserts it. Compare Galatians 1:1; Galatians 1:8; G...
_He said unto him_ The Hebrew has the conjunction - AND he said": there is no reason for its omission in the English. _I_am _a prophet also_ The order of the R.V. is to be preferred. -I also am a pro...
B. THE DECEPTION OF THE MAN OF GOD 13:11-19 TRANSLATION (11) Now a certain old prophet lived in Bethel; and his son[347] came and related to him all which the man of God had done that day in Bethel;...
_HE SAID UNTO HIM, I AM A PROPHET ALSO AS THOU ART; AND AN ANGEL SPAKE UNTO ME BY THE WORD OF THE LORD, SAYING, BRING HIM BACK WITH THEE INTO THINE HOUSE, THAT HE MAY EAT BREAD AND DRINK WATER. BUT HE...
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...
AN ANGEL SPAKE UNTO ME. — The lie was gross, and ought to have been obvious to one who had received a plain command, and must have known that “God was not a man that He should lie, or the son of man t...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר לֹ֗ו גַּם ־אֲנִ֣י נָבִיא֮ כָּמֹוך
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;...
LED ASTRAY BY A FALSE MESSENGER 1 Kings 13:11 The unnamed prophet from Judah had received distinct instructions not to eat bread nor drink water while on his divinely-commissioned errand. He was ther...
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...
He said unto him, I [am] a prophet also as thou [art]; and an (h) angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water....
An angel spoke to me, &c. This old man of Bethel was indeed a prophet, but he sinned in thus deceiving the man of God; the more, because he pretended a revelation for what he did; (Challoner; Worthing...
(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...
_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 SAID UNTO HIM,.... That is, the old prophet said to the man of God: I AM A PROPHET ALSO AS THOU ART; meaning, that he was a prophet of the true God, and not of any idol deity; that he not only...
He said unto him, I [am] a prophet also as thou [art]; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. [Bu...
_But he lied unto him_ And yet, probably, not with any evil design, but out of curiosity, to know from his own mouth the truth and all the particulars of the message which he had just delivered to Jer...
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...
He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art, and an angel spake unto me by the word of the Lord, by His express command, SAYING, BRING HIM BACK WITH THEE INTO THINE HOUSE THAT HE MAY EAT BREAD A...
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...
11-22 The old prophet's conduct proves that he was not really a godly man. When the change took place under Jeroboam, he preferred his ease and interest to his religion. He took a very bad method to...
Not with evil design against him, but out of curiosity to know all the truth and circumstances from his own mouth, and to express his kindness to him, and to relieve his pressing hunger; whereby possi...
1 Kings 13:18 said H559 (H8799) prophet H5030 angel H4397 spoke H1696 (H8765) word H1697 LORD H3068 saying...
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
_He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art._ TRUTHS ABOUT CONSCIENCE I. Conscience, of itself alone, is not a sufficient guide for life. Every night, set in the front of the locomotive as it...
_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 John 4:1; 2 Corinthians 11:13; 2 Corinthians 11:3; 2 Peter 2:1;...