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UNDER AN OAK - literally, “under the oak,” or “the
terebinth-tree.” There was a single well-known tree of the kind,
standing by itself in the vicinity of Bethel, which the author
supposed his readers...
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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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AN OAK. the oak....
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_under an oak_ The tree named in the Hebrew is probably the terebinth.
The noun has the article in the original, and it refers perhaps to
some well-known tree which was a landmark in the neighbourhood...
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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;...
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_AND WENT AFTER THE MAN OF GOD, AND FOUND HIM SITTING UNDER AN OAK:
AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, ART THOU THE MAN OF GOD THAT CAMEST FROM JUDAH?
AND HE SAID, I AM._
Went after the man of God, and found him...
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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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AN OAK. — Properly, _the oak_, or _terebinth;_ supposed to be known
in that comparatively treeless country, like the oak at Shechem
(Genesis 35:4; Genesis 35:8; Joshua 24:26;...
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וַ יֵּ֗לֶךְ אַֽחֲרֵי֙ אִ֣ישׁ הָ
אֱלֹהִ֔ים וַ
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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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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...
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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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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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(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...
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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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_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...
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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 WENT AFTER THE MAN OF GOD, AND FOUND HIM SITTING UNDER AN OAK,....
To shelter him from the heat, and being faint, hungry, and thirsty; so
the ancients of old made use of oaks for a covering, befor...
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And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and
he said unto him, [Art] thou the man of God that camest from Judah?
And he said, I [am].
Ver. 14. _Sitting under an oak._] Or, A...
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_And found him sitting under an oak_ Being faint and weary with his
journey, and possibly with the heat also, (which made him choose to
rest in this shady place,) and especially with hunger and thirst...
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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 went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak,
under the terebinth which was afterward connected with the happening
here related. AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, ART THOU THE MAN OF GOD THAT...
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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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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...
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SITTING UNDER AN OAK; being faint and weary with his journey, and
possibly with the heat, which makes him choose this shady place; and
especially with hunger and thirst, 1 KINGS 13:9. And he might eas...
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1 Kings 13:14 went H3212 (H8799) after H310 man H376 God H430 found
H4672 (H8799) sitting H3427 ...
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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...
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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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_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...
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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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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...
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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)...
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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 Corinthians 4:11; 1 Corinthians 4:12; 1 Kings 13:1; 1 Kings 19:4;...