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CHAPTER 14 THE PASSING OF JEROBOAM AND REHOBOAM
_ 1. Sickness and death of Jeroboam's son (1 Kings 14:1)_
2. Jeroboam's reign and death (1 Kings 14:19)
3. Rehoboam's apostasy, punishment and death...
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REIGN OF REHOBOAM. The formula in 1 Kings 14:21 is regularly employed
in Kings. The LXX make his age sixteen, and gives him twelve years.
The name of the king's mother is given, since she, and not the...
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_brasen shields_ R.V. - SHIELDS OF BRASS " (or, rather, -bronze")
which is the form in 2 Chronicles 12:10, and which represents the
original more precisely.
_chief of the guard_ The margin of A.V. giv...
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REHOBOAM MADE IN THEIR STEAD BRASEN SHIELDS— This shews to what a
low condition the kingdom of Judah was reduced. Those shields were a
matter of state and grandeur; and therefore it concerned them, if...
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I. THE FIRST THREE KINGS OF JUDAH 14:21-15:24
(931-870 B.C.)
The first three kings of Judah ruled for sixty-one years. In this
section the author speaks of (1) the apostasy of Rehoboam (1 Kings
14:21-...
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_AND KING REHOBOAM MADE IN THEIR STEAD BRASEN SHIELDS, AND COMMITTED
THEM UNTO THE HANDS OF THE CHIEF OF THE GUARD, WHICH KEPT THE DOOR OF
THE KING'S HOUSE._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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THE SINS OF JEROBOAM AND REHOBOAM AND THEIR PUNISHMENT
2. Shiloh] The modern Seilûn, N. of Bethel and E. of the road leading
from Bethel to Shechem (Judges 21:19)....
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GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY
1 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 14
AHIJAH *PROPHESIES THE END OF JEROBOAM’S RULE OVER *ISRAEL
V1 At that time, King Jeroboam’s son Abijah became ill. V2 Jeroboam
said t...
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IN THEIR STEAD. — The notice of this substitution is not only a
curious point of accurate detail, but perhaps intended as a symbolic
representation of the change which had passed upon Judah, by which...
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וַ יַּ֨עַשׂ הַ מֶּ֤לֶךְ רְחַבְעָם֙
תַּחְתָּ֔ם...
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THE EARLIER KINGS OF JUDAH
1 Kings 14:21; 1 Kings 15:1
THE history of "the Jews" begins, properly speaking, from the reign of
Rehoboam, and for four centuries it is mainly the history of the
Davidic...
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SOUTH RIVALS WORTH IN SINNING
1 Kings 14:17
Rehoboam's mother's name signifies _beauty_, and she may have been
attractive in her person; but we are twice told that she was an
Ammonitess, as if to emp...
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In the story now recorded God is seen acting in judgment. The sickness
of the son of Jeroboam was the first stroke of punishment and in
connection therewith the prophet Ahijah uttered the doom of the...
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_Hand. Symmachus, "the place where the courtiers" (guards) stood,
(Haydock) in the hall; (Calmet) or he made the guards carry these
shields before him, ver. 28. (Haydock)_...
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(25) And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that
Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: (26) And he took away
the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of th...
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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 FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 14, 15, AND 16.
In spite of this testimony, Jeroboam perseveres in his sin. The only
one of his sons in whom any piety is seen dies; and the judgment of
God...
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And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed
[them] unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door
of the king's house.
Ver. 27. _Brazen shields._] "The faithful...
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_Rehoboam made in their stead brazen shields_ This was an emblem of
the diminution of his glory. Sin makes the gold become dim: it changes
the most fine gold, and turns it into brass. _And committed t...
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1 Abijah being sicke, Ieroboam sendeth his wife disguised with
Presents to the prophet Ahijah at Shiloh.
5 Ahijah forewarned by God, denounceth Gods iudgement.
17 Abijah dieth and is buried.
19 Nad...
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And King Rehoboam made in their stead brazen shields, and committed
them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, the king's runners,
WHICH KEPT THE DOOR OF THE KING'S HOUSE, the watch at the palace...
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THE RULE OF REHOBOAM...
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JEREBOAM WARNED THROUGH HIS SON'S DEATH
Though God had sought to reach Jereboam's conscience by the message
and actions of the man of God, this produced no effect. So God used
another means, by the se...
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GUARD:
_ Heb._ runners...
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21-31 Here is no good said of Rehoboam, and much said to the
disadvantage of his subjects. The abounding of the worst crimes, of
the worst of the heathen, in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen
f...
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Whereas the golden shields, as being more precious, were kept in a
certain place....
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1 Kings 14:27 King H4428 Rehoboam H7346 made H6213 (H8799) bronze
H5178 shields H4043 committed H6485 (H8689) han
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THE REIGN OF REHOBOAM OF JUDAH C. 930-913 BC (1 KINGS 14:21).
The sad thing about Rehoboam's reign would be its extreme bankruptcy.
He reigned over a country which went to the excess in religious
apos...
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CONTENTS: Prophecy against Jeroboam and partial fulfillment. Judah's
apostacy under Rehoboam and his death.
CHARACTERS: God, Ahijah, Jeroboam, Rehoboam, Shishak, wife and son of
Jeroboam.
CONCLUSION:...
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1 Kings 14:2. _Ahijah the prophet;_ an illustrious man of God, now
full of days, and full of grace.
1 Kings 14:3. _Ten loaves._ A rustic present, that it might not excite
suspicion of a royal visit. I...
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_King Rehoboam made in their stead brazen shields._
SHIELDS OF GOLD AND BRONZE
Solomon in his reign decorated his court of justice, called the house
of the forest of Lebanon, with three hundred shiel...
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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 14:21__ The text now returns to Rehoboam’s
reign and what has been happening in Judah.
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1 Kings 14:21. From incidents associated with the kingdom of ISRAEL,
the historian now turns to JUDAH.
1 Kings 14:28. NAAMAH AN AMMONITESS—_Sept._ reads: “Daughter of...
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EXPOSITION
THE REIGN OF REHOBOAM.—
1 KINGS 14:21
AND REHOBOAM, THE SON OF SOLOMON, REIGNED IN JUDAH. REHOBOAM WAS FORTY
[or twenty. See on 1 Kings 12:1] and one years old when he
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So at that time his son Abijah became sick. And Jeroboam said to his
wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that they won't know
you as the wife of Jeroboam; and go to Shiloh: for there is a...
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1 Kings 14:1; 1 Kings 14:5; 1 Kings 18:46; 1 Samuel 22:17; 1 Samuel
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Brazen shields — This was an emblem of the diminution of his glory.
Sin makes the gold become dim, it changes the most fine gold and turns
it into brass....