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Verse 1 Kings 13:20. _THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO THE PROPHET
THAT_ _BROUGHT HIM BACK_] "A great clamour," says Dr. _Kennicott_,
"has been raised against this part of the history, on account of Go...
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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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_as they sat at the table_ They were having a proper meal. The
expression -to eat bread and to drink water" signifies -to take food
and drink" and must not be understood literally. The idea meant to b...
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C. THE CONDEMNATION OF THE MAN OF GOD 13:20-26
TRANSLATION
(20) And it came to pass as they were sitting at the table, that the
word of the LORD came unto the prophet who brought him back; (21) and
h...
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_SO HE WENT BACK WITH HIM, AND DID EAT BREAD IN HIS HOUSE, AND DRANK
WATER._
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 unlik...
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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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THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME. — It is, perhaps, the most terrible
feature in the history that the Divine sentence is spoken — no
doubt, as in the case of Balaam, unwillingly — through the very lips
which...
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וַ יְהִ֕י הֵ֥ם יֹשְׁבִ֖ים אֶל ־הַ
שֻּׁלְחָ֑ן פ וַֽ יְהִי֙ דְּבַר
־יְהוָ֔ה אֶל ־הַ נָּבִ֖יא...
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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; 1 Kings 4:1; 1
Kings 5:1; 1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 7:1; 1 Kings 8:1;...
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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 o...
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_Table. After this the Masorets place a piska, or circle, to denote
some omission, which the Syriac version alone supplies; "and did eat."
(Kennicott) --- Back. Some translate, "whom he had brought ba...
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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 IT CAME TO PASS, AS THEY SAT AT THE TABLE,.... The old prophet,
with his sons, and the man of God; the Arabic version adds, "and did
eat", there being a pause in the Hebrew text, as if something w...
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And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the
LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back:
Ver. 20. _And it came to pass, as they sat at the table._] Where this
prophet was...
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_The word of the Lord came_, &c. God obliged the prophet, who had
caused him to sin, to denounce a punishment against him for it, that
it might the more affect him; nothing being more piercing than to...
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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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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 t...
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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 b...
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AS THEY SAT AT THE TABLE; there the prophet meets with a severe
judgment, where he was pleasing himself with this seasonable
refreshment. THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME by secret instinct into his
mind, as...
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1 Kings 13:20 sat H3427 (H8802) table H7979 word H1697 LORD H3068
prophet H5030 back H7725 (H8689)
the word of the Lord - 1 Kings 13:23, Genesis 22:11; 1 Kings 13:26;
Numbers 23:5,...
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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 mentioned by name, as well as Josiah.
Isaiah 44...
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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 chapt...
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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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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 13:2; Genesis 22:11; John 11:51; Matthew 7:22; Numbers
23:16; Numbers 23:5; Numbers 24:16; Numbers 24:4...