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1 Kings 11:16,17

(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)

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See also 1 Kings 11:16,17 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    EVERY MALE IN EDOM - i. e., every male whom he could find. As did Hadad and his company 1 Kings 11:17, so others would escape in various directions. The Edomite nation was not destroyed on the occasio...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    7. SOLOMON'S FAILURE: JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED AND THE BEGINNING OF DISRUPTION CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Solomon's polygamy and departure from God (1 Kings 11:1)_ 2. Hadad the Edomite (1 Kings 11:14) 3. Rezon the...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    SIN OF SOLOMON, AND THE ADVERSARIES RAISED UP IN CONSEQUENCE. From various differences in the arrangement of the earlier verses in the LXX and Heb., it has been supposed that in its original form the...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SIX MONTHS. See note on 2 Samuel 8:13. Note also Figure of speech _Parenthesis_ (App-6), 1 Kings 11:16....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _for six months_ Not too long a time to be spent in establishing garrisons which might hold the land. _with all Israel_ This like the last verse must be understood only of such forces as were engaged...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    II. SOLOMON'S TROUBLES 11:14-40 While reading the preceding Chapter s, one has the impression that Solomon enjoyed a reign of uninterrupted peace and splendor. But here at the close of the account of...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SOLOMON'S ERRORS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES. HIS DEATH This chapter furnishes an account of Solomon's marriages with numerous foreign princesses, and traces the evil effect of such in the toleration of i...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 11 SOLOMON *WORSHIPS FALSE GODS V1 Solomon, however, loved many foreign women. He married the daughter of the king of Egypt. He also mar...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (14-25) The events recorded in this section belong, at least in part, to the early years of the reign of Solomon. when the deaths of the warlike David and Joab, and the accession of a mere youth of av...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֣י שֵׁ֧שֶׁת חֳדָשִׁ֛ים יָֽשַׁב ־שָׁ֥ם יֹואָ֖ב...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    HOLLOW PROSPERITY 1 Kings 11:1 "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity." - Ecclesiastes 1:2 "At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass of ra...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE WIND AND THE WHIRLWIND 1 Kings 11:14 "He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption." - Galatians 6:8 SUCH degeneracy could not show itself in the king without danger to his pe...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    ADVERSARIES OF THE RECREANT KING 1 Kings 11:14 Two of the instruments of Solomon's chastisement are enumerated in this paragraph. First, _Hadad, the Edomite_, 1 Kings 11:14. Notice the importance of...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    At this point the story of Solomon suddenly changes. The glory passes away, and we observe his rapid degeneracy and doom. The nature of the man had ever a strong animal side. His commercial enterprise...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (14) В¶ And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom. (15) For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11 AND 12. Till now we have had the beautiful picture of God's blessing resting upon the son of David, whose only desire it had been to possess wisdom from Go...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR SIX MONTHS DID JOAB REMAIN WITH ALL ISRAEL,.... With the whole army: UNTIL HE HAD CUT OFF EVERY MALE IN EDOM; as he supposed; for it was not fact, since after this they increased again, and becam...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    1 Kings 11:16 (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:) Ver. 16. _Until he had cut off every male,_] viz., That was taken in the heat of the fig...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _When David was in Edom_ By his army to war against it; _and Joab was gone up to bury the slain_ The Israelites who were slain in the battle, (2 Samuel 8:13,) whom he honourably interred in some certa...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Solomons wiues and concubines. 4 In his old age they draw him to idolatry. 9 God threatneth him. 14 Solomons aduersaries were Hadad, who was intertained in Egypt, 23 Rezon who reigned in Damascu...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    (for six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom,)...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Solomon's Adversaries and Death...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    MANY MARRIAGES LEADING TO IDOLATRY (vs.1-13) Solomon also disobeyedDeuteronomy 17:17 in making many marriages with foreign women, from the Moabites, Alnmonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites (v.1)...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-25 While Solomon kept close to God and to his duty, there was no enemy to give him uneasiness; but here we have an account of two. If against us, he can make us fear even the least, and the very gr...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Kings 11:16 six H8337 months H2320 Joab H3097 remained H3427 (H8804) Israel H3478 down H3772 (H8689) male...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH RAISES UP THREE ADVERSARIES TO SOLOMON (1 KINGS 11:14). At the commencement of his reign Solomon had had to deal with three rebels against the throne, Adonijah, Abiathar and Joab and Shimei (1 Ki...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HADAD THE EDOMITE (1 KINGS 11:14). The first adversary was Hadad, the Edomite. He was of the royal family of Edom and had escaped the retaliatory massacre that necessarily followed an Edomite raid on...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Solomon's heart turned. Chastened of God. Rise of Jeroboam. Death of Solomon. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, Hadad, Pharaoh, Rezon, Jeroboam, Adoram, Ahijah. CONCLUSION: The way of sin is down h...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Kings 11:1. _Solomon loved many strange women,_ of gentile nations, and was connected with them. To this day thousands of women in India are married to great men merely as a mark of honour, and they...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And the Lord stirred up an adversary unto Solomon._ DIVINE IMPULSES Is this an old story that has in it no modern pith or music, or is it our own life anticipated and set in strange lights? Does it...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 11:1 Throughout chs. 1 Kings 1:1 there have been hints that all is not well with Solomon’s heart. Now comes the inevitable conclusion: Solomon’s sins have led him to apostasy.

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 11:14 Two men are RAISED UP by God to oppose Solomon: REZON from the north and HADAD from the south. Where the king once had peace on all sides ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _HOMILETICS OF 1 Kings 11:14_ THE AGENTS OF DIVINE RETRIBUTION I. ARE SECRETLY PREPARING WHEN LEAST SUSPECTED. Hadad and Rezon on the frontier, and Jeroboam under the shadow of the throne, were plott...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION SOLOMON'S ADVERSARIES.—As the historian has collected together in 1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 7:1; 1 Kings 8:1, all the information he can convey respecting the _temple, _and

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter eleven. But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughters of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites (1 Kings 11:1); Now turn back fo...

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