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Verse 1 Kings 13:34. _AND THIS THING BECAME SIN_] These abominations
were too glaring, and too insulting to the Divine Majesty, to be
permitted to last; therefore his house was cut off, and destroyed...
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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...
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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...
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BECAME SIN. became the sin. See note on 1 Kings 12:30....
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The Hebrew text here also is not clear. Literally it is -in this thing
there came to be &c." But the A.V. and all other versions translate as
though the Hebrew were the same as in the beginning of 1 K...
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AND THIS THING BECAME SIN— Nothing can be more striking than the
blindness and ingratitude of Jeroboam. Instead of relying on the
promises which God had made him, to preserve the kingdom in his
family...
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E. THE DEPRECATION OF JEROBOAM 13:33-34
TRANSLATION
(33) After this thing, Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but
again made priests of the high places from all classes of the people.
Anyone w...
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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...
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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...
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AND THIS THING. — The comment of the author of the book, evidently
based on the prophetic denunciation of Ahijah in 1 Kings 14:9, and its
subsequent fulfilment. (See 1 Kings 15:25.)...
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וַ יְהִי֙ בַּ † דָּבָ֣ר הַ זֶּ֔ה...
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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...
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BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS
1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
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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...
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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...
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_Earth. Hebrew, "to destroy it from the face of the earth." The
Vulgate insinuates that it had taken place before the author wrote. In
the third year of Asa, 22 years after this revolt, Bansa slew the...
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REFLECTIONS
My soul! pause over the perusal of this chapter, and contemplate in
what a variety of views thou mayest gather spiritual improvement from
it under the blessed Spirit's teaching.
In the a...
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(33) After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but
made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places:
whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the prie...
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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...
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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...
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AND THIS THING BECAME SIN UNTO THE HOUSE OF JEROBOAM,.... All the
above things were sins in themselves, as building high places, and
putting priests in them, whoever would; but the sense is, that thes...
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And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut [it]
off, and to destroy [it] from off the face of the earth.
Ver. 34. _And this thing became sin._] This his obstinacy and
pertinacy...
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_This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam_ An occasion of sin,
and a mean of hardening all his posterity in their idolatry; or,
rather, _it became a punishment_, as the word sin often signifies....
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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...
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And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, it was charged
against him, EVEN TO CUT IT OFF, AND TO DESTROY IT FROM OFF THE FACE
OF THE EARTH. His guilt brought upon him and upon his entire f...
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THE PROPHET PUNISHED FOR HIS DISOBEDIENCE...
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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...
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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...
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THIS THING BECAME SIN; either an occasion of sin, and means of
hardening all his posterity in their idolatry; or, a _punishment_, for
so the word _sin_ is oft used. This his obstinate continuance in h...
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1 Kings 13:34 thing H1697 sin H2403 house H1004 Jeroboam H3379
exterminate H3582 (H8687) destroy H8045 (H8687) fa
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A SUMMARY EMPHASISING JEROBOAM'S FAILURE TO REPENT AND ITS
CONSEQUENCES (1 KINGS 13:33).
Having told the full story of Jeroboam's failure to obey YHWH, and the
prophetic witness that had cast condemna...
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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...
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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
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_Jeroboam turned not from his way._
JEROBOAM: A CHARACTER STUDY
Jeroboam had decidedly a fine start with a flattering prospect of
success, a rare opportunity for excelling both temporally and
spiritu...
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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
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_HOMILETICS OF 1 Kings 13:33_
AN INVETERATE SINNER
I. THAT AN INVETERATE SINNER IS INDIFFERENT ALIKE TO ENTREATY AND
WARNING. “After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil
way.” There is some...
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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...
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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...
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1 Kings 12:26; 1 Kings 12:30; 1 Kings 14:10; 1 Kings 15:29; 1
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Sin — Either, an occasion of sin, and means of hardening all his
posterity in their idolatry: or, a punishment, for so the word sin is
often used. This his obstinate continuance in his idolatry, after...