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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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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...
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_AND THE MAN OF GOD SAID UNTO THE KING, IF THOU WILT GIVE ME HALF
THINE HOUSE, I WILL NOT GO IN WITH THEE, NEITHER WILL I EAT BREAD NOR
DRINK WATER IN THIS PLACE:_
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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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וַ יֵּ֖לֶךְ בְּ דֶ֣רֶךְ אַחֵ֑ר וְ לֹֽא
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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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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...
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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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Bethel, which was defiled, 1 Kings xxi. 5. God would thus caution us
to keep at the greatest distance (Tirinus) possible from evil company,
(Haydock) and from whatever may lead to sin. (Menochius) ---...
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(7) And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and
refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward. (8) And the man of God
said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I wi...
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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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So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to
Bethel.
Ver. 10. _So he went another way._] This was well done, though
afterwards he failed and flinched; as did likewise Gropperus...
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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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So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to
Bethel. It is God's will, most emphatically expressed, that His
servants should not fellowship with such as teach, or adhere to, fal...
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JEROBOAM REPROVED FOR HIS SIN...
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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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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...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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1 Kings 13:10 went H3212 (H8799) another H312 way H1870 return H7725
(H8804) way H1870 came H935 ...
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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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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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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),...
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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...
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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...