_AND REHOBOAM WENT TO SHECHEM: FOR TO SHECHEM WERE ALL ISRAEL COME TO MAKE HIM KING._ Rehoboam went to Shechem - (see the note at 1 Kings 12:1.) This chapter is, with a few verbal alterations, the same as in that book.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT, WHO WAS IN EGYPT, WHITHER HE HAD FLED FROM THE PRESENCE OF SOLOMON THE KING, HEARD IT, THAT JEROBOAM RETURNED OUT OF EGYPT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY SENT AND CALLED HIM. SO JEROBOAM AND ALL ISRAEL CAME AND SPAKE TO REHOBOAM, SAYING,_ And they sent - rather, 'for they had sent,'. This is stated as the reason of Jeroboam's return from Egypt.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THY FATHER MADE OUR YOKE GRIEVOUS: NOW THEREFORE EASE THOU SOMEWHAT THE GRIEVOUS SERVITUDE OF THY_ _ THY FATHER MADE OUR YOKE GRIEVOUS: NOW THEREFORE EASE THOU SOMEWHAT THE GRIEVOUS SERVITUDE OF THY FATHER, AND HIS HEAVY YOKE THAT HE PUT UPON US, AND WE WILL SERVE THEE._ No JFB commentary on these... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY SPAKE UNTO HIM, SAYING, IF THOU BE KIND TO THIS PEOPLE, AND PLEASE THEM, AND SPEAK GOOD WORDS TO THEM, THEY WILL BE THY SERVANTS FOR EVER._ If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them. In the Book of Kings, the words are. "If thou wilt be a servant unto t... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT HE FORSOOK THE COUNSEL WHICH THE OLD MEN GAVE HIM, AND TOOK COUNSEL WITH THE YOUNG MEN THAT WERE BROUGHT UP WITH HIM, THAT STOOD BEFORE HIM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THE KING HEARKENED NOT UNTO THE PEOPLE: FOR THE CAUSE WAS OF GOD, THAT THE LORD MIGHT PERFORM HIS WORD, WHICH HE SPAKE BY THE HAND OF AHIJAH THE SHILONITE TO JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT._ The cause was of God. Rehoboam, in following an evil counsel, and the Hebrew people, is making a revolutionar... [ Continue Reading ]