Whosoever would. — See 1 Kings 12:32. The emphatic tone of the words, “whosoever would, he consecrated him,” possibly indicates that, in spite of all that Jeroboam and his prophet could do, there was some difficulty in securing candidates for his unauthorised priesthood.
Verse 1 Kings 13:33. _JEROBOAM RETURNED NOT FROM HIS EVIL WAY_] There is something exceedingly obstinate and perverse, as well as blinding and infatuating, in idolatry. The prediction lately delivere...
WHOSOEVER WOULD, HE CONSECRATED HIM - i. e., he exercised no discretion, but allowed anyone to become a priest, without regard to birth, character, or social position. We may suspect from this that th...
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...
BECAME ONE OF THE PRIESTS. Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulg, reads "became priest"....
Jeroboam goes on in his evil way (Not in Chronicles) 33. _made again of the lowest of the people_ R.V. MADE AGAIN FROM AMONG ALL THE PEOPLE. See note on 1 Kings 12:31 above. _he consecrated him_ The...
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...
_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 PRIESTS...
13:33 classes (b-16) Lit. 'the ends,' as in ch. 12.31....
CONSECRATED] see on Exodus 28:41; Exodus 29:24....
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...
אַחַר֙ הַ דָּבָ֣ר הַ זֶּ֔ה לֹֽא ־שָׁ֥ב
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...
After this thing Jeroboam (u) 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 pri...
CHAPTER XIII. _ Way. Every thing promotes the salvation of the just, while the wicked pervert the most gracious designs of Providence to their own ruin. The king concluded that the prediction deserve...
(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...
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...
_JEROBOAM’S SIN_ ‘After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way.’ 1 Kings 13:33 ‘After this thing,’ viz., such a succession of miracles and prophecies as we can hardly find elsewhere in...
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...
AFTER THIS THING JEROBOAM RETURNED NOT FROM HIS EVIL WAY,.... From the idolatrous practices he had started, and was establishing; though he had seen his altar rent, and the ashes poured out as the man...
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 priests...
_After this_ That is, after all these things; the singular number being put for the plural; after so many evident and successive miracles; _Jeroboam returned not from his evil ways_ He was not at all...
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...
After this thing, this happening, JEROBOAM RETURNED NOT FROM HIS EVIL WAY, he was not repentant, BUT MADE AGAIN OF THE LOWEST OF THE PEOPLE, from the mass, from all classes, PRIESTS OF THE HIGH PLACES...
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...
MADE AGAIN: _ Heb._ returned and made CONSECRATED HIM: _ Heb._ filled his hand...
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...
AFTER THIS THING, i.e. after all these things; the singular number put for the plural; after so many, and evident, and successive miracles; which is noted to aggravate his infidelity and apostacy. MAD...
1 Kings 13:33 After H310 event H1697 Jeroboam H3379 turn H7725 (H8804) evil H7451 way H1870 again H7725 ...
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...
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
_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...
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
_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...
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 Kings 12:31; 2 Chronicles 11:15; 2 Chronicles 13:9; 2 Timothy 3:13;...
After this — That is, after all these things: the singular number put for the plural; after so many, and evident, and successive miracles. Made again — He abated not so much as a circumstance in his i...