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The words “they also” are emphatic. Not only did the Israelites
make themselves high places 1Ki 12:31; 1 Kings 13:32, but the people
of Judah also. The “high places,” which are said to have been
“buil...
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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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GROVES. See note on Exodus 34:13, and App-42....
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_high places_ We read constantly of -houses" of the high places, and
it is to these erections on some lofty hills that the -building" here
spoken of applies. See above, 1 Kings 12:31.
_images_ The R.V...
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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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_FOR THEY ALSO BUILT THEM HIGH PLACES, AND IMAGES, AND GROVES, ON
EVERY HIGH HILL, AND UNDER EVERY GREEN TREE._
Groves, х_ 'ASHEERIYM_ (H842)] - Asherah, wooden or stone images of a
symbolical tree,...
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14:23 columns, (a-10) Or 'statues,' see Leviticus 26:1 ; Deuteronomy
7:5 ....
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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 to...
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HIGH PLACES, AND IMAGES, AND GROVES. — On the “high places,” see
1 Kings 3:2, and Note there. The “images” of this passage seem
undoubtedly to have been stone pillars, as the “groves” (_i.e._,
the ash...
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וַ יִּבְנ֨וּ גַם ־הֵ֧מָּה לָהֶ֛ם
בָּמֹ֥ות וּ מַצֵּבֹ֖ות וַ אֲשֵׁרִ֑ים
עַ֚ל כָּל ־גִּבְעָ֣ה גְבֹהָ֔ה...
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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 em...
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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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_High hill. Such places of devotion had been tolerated, before the
temple was built: but now they were deemed profane. (Calmet)_...
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(22) And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked
him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all
that their fathers had done. (23) For they also built them high...
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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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FOR THEY ALSO BUILT THEM HIGH PLACES,.... Which, though allowed of, or
at least connived at, before the temple was built, and when the
tabernacle was unfixed, yet afterwards unlawful; and the tribe of...
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For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every
high hill, and under every green tree.
Ver. 23. _For they also built them high places._] They fell to foul
idolatry and sodomy,...
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_Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord_ In contempt and in defiance
of him, and the tokens of his special presence. _They provoked him to
jealousy_ By joining other gods together with him, as the ad...
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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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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 s...
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IMAGES:
Or, standing images, or statues...
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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
fo...
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THEY ALSO BUILT THEM HIGH PLACES; they followed the example of the
Israelites, although they were better instructed, and had the temple
in their kingdom, and liberty of access to it, which was denied...
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1 Kings 14:23 built H1129 (H8799) places H1116 pillars H4676 images
H842 high H1364 hill H1389 green H7488 tree H6086
built - 1 Kings 3:2; Deuteronomy 12:2; Isaiah 57:5; Ezekiel 16:24-25,...
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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....
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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 o...
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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 BEGAN TO
REIGN, AND...
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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 3:2; 2 Chronicles 28:4; 2 Kings 17:10; 2 Kings 17:9; 2 Kings
21:3; Deuteronomy 12:2; Ezekiel 16:24; Ezekiel 16:25; Ezekiel 20:28;...
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They also — Followed the example of the Israelites, although they
were better instructed, and had the temple in their kingdom, and
liberty of access to it, and the privilege of worshipping God in his...