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Verse 1 Kings 13:3. _AND HE GAVE A SIGN_] A miracle to prove that the
prophecy should be fulfilled in its season....
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HE GAVE A SIGN - A sign of this kind - an immediate prophecy to prove
the divine character of a remote prophecy - had scarcely been given
before this. In the later history, however, such signs are not...
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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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A SIGN. We have similar signs in Exodus 3:12; 2 Kings 19:29; 2 Kings
20:8; Isaiah 7:14;...
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_And he gave a sign the same day_ The sign was necessary because the
event foretold was to be at so remote a date that none who were living
in Jeroboam's day would be alive to see it. Hence to assure...
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THERE CAME A MAN OF GOD— Commentators are not agreed who this
prophet was, neither is there any foundation for so much as a
conjecture. The prophesy, however, is one of the most remarkable that
we hav...
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I. DENUNCIATION OF JEROBOAM 13:1-32
Chapter 13 narrates a thought-provoking episode from the early history
of the Northern Kingdom. The historical message of the chapter is
clear. Because Jeroboam ha...
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_AND HE GAVE A SIGN THE SAME DAY, SAYING, THIS IS THE SIGN WHICH THE
LORD HATH SPOKEN; BEHOLD, THE ALTAR SHALL BE RENT, AND THE ASHES THAT
ARE UPON IT SHALL BE POURED OUT._
No JFB commentary on these...
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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 unlike...
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A SIGN] The fulfilment of the prediction in 1 Kings 13:3 would be a
warranty for the fulfilment of the prediction in 1 Kings 13:2 : cp. 1
Samuel 2:34; Isai
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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 SIGN. — Both the signs, like most miraculous signs, shadow forth
plainly the thing signified. The sign, announced to secure credence to
the prediction, is itself a visible type of what that predic...
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וְ נָתַן֩ בַּ † יֹּ֨ום הַ ה֤וּא...
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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;...
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JUDGMENT UPON WORTHLESS WORSHIP
1 Kings 13:1
What a noble name for anyone to bear- _a man of God!_ Yet we all might
so bear the impress of God in our character that those who come in
contact with us...
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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 of...
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And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This [is] the (c) sign which
the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes
that [are] upon it shall be poured out.
(c) By this sign you...
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(2) And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said,
O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born
unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he...
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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 HE GAVE A SIGN THE SAME DAY, SAYING, THIS IS THE SIGN WHICH THE
LORD HATH SPOKEN,.... As a confirmation of the truth of what the
prophet had said, and for the proof of his being a true prophet of...
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And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This [is] the sign which the
LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that
[are] upon it shall be poured out.
Ver. 3. _Behold, the alt...
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_He gave a sign the same day_ That is, he then wrought a miracle to
assure them of the truth of his prophecy. _Saying, this is the sign,_
&c. A proof that I speak from God, and not from myself. _The a...
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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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And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the
Lord hath spoken: Behold, the altar shall be rent, utterly destroyed,
torn to pieces, AND THE ASHES THAT ARE UPON IT SHALL BE POURED...
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JEROBOAM REPROVED FOR HIS SIN...
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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 to...
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1-10 In threatening the altar, the prophet threatens the founder and
worshippers. Idolatrous worship will not continue, but the word of the
Lord will endure for ever. The prediction plainly declared...
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HE GAVE A SIGN THE SAME DAY, i. e. he then wrought a miracle, to
assure them of the truth of his prophecy....
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1 Kings 13:3 gave H5414 (H8804) sign H4159 day H3117 saying H559
(H8800) sign H4159 LORD H3068 spoken...
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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 m
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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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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 13:3 Since Josiah’s reign is still a long
way off, a SIGN is also described and then acted out. This indicates
that the prophecy is true....
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THE MYSTERIOUS PROPHET OF JUDAH
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1 Kings 13:1. THERE CAME A MAN OF GOD: an unknown prophet. Josephus
suggests _Jadon_, confounding him with Iddo (2 Chronicles 13:22),...
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EXPOSITION
THE TESTIMONY OF GOD AGAINST THE CALF WORSHIP.—We have in this
chapter, which some commentators consider to be derived from a
different source from the narratives which precede and follow i...
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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 1:22; 1 Samuel 2:34; 2 Kings 20:8; Deuteronomy 13:1;...
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Gave a sign — That is, he then wrought a miracle, to assure them of
the truth of his prophecy....