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Verse 1 Kings 14:15. _FOR THE LORD SHALL SMITE ISRAEL_] See this
prophecy fulfilled, 1 Kings 15:28-11, when Baasha destroyed all the
house and posterity of Jeroboam....
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The general prophecy of Moses Deuteronomy 29:28, that the disobedient
Israelites would be rooted up out of their land, and cast into another
land, is here for the first time repeated, and is definitiv...
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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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VISIT OF JEROBOAM'S WIFE TO AHIJAH. Here we have an ancient story with
Deuteronomic additions. According to the LXX (1 Kings 12:24 _g-m),_
Jeroboam sent his wife (Ano) to the prophet _before_ he becam...
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SMITE ISRAEL, [SHAKING HIM] AS. REED IS SHAKEN, &C. The Figure of
speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6) to be thus supplied.
THIS GOOD LAND. Occurs only here and Joshua 23:13; Joshua 23:15. the
river: i.e. the E...
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_as a reed is shaken_ For this figure of entire instability, cf.
Matthew 11:7 -a reed shaken with the wind". And here the root is
planted amid the water, which will make it more tottering still.
_bey...
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THE RIVER— _The river Euphrates._...
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B. THE MESSAGE OF GOD'S PROPHET 14:6-16
TRANSLATION
(6) And it came to pass when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming
at the door, that he said, Enter, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you
pretending t...
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_FOR THE LORD SHALL SMITE ISRAEL, AS A REED IS SHAKEN IN THE WATER,
AND HE SHALL ROOT UP ISRAEL OUT OF THIS GOOD LAND, WHICH HE GAVE TO
THEIR FATHERS, AND SHALL SCATTER THEM BEYOND THE RIVER, BECAUSE...
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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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THE RIVER] i.e. the Euphrates. GROVES] RV 'Asherim' (pi. of Asherah),
and so in 1 Kings 14:23 and elsewhere. These were poles used as
religious emblems (cp. Isaiah 17:8), and were probably intended to...
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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 t...
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AND HE SHALL ROOT UP ISRAEL. — The first prophecy of future
captivity, and that “beyond the river” (Euphrates), is here
pronounced against the kingdom of Israel, on account of their share in
the idola...
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וְ הִכָּ֨ה יְהוָ֜ה אֶת ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל
כַּ אֲשֶׁ
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DOOM OF THE HOUSE OF NEBAT
1 Kings 14:1
"Whom the gods love die young."
-EPICTET.
THE other story about Jeroboam is full of pathos; and though here,
too, there are obvious signs that, in its presen...
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THE BLIND PROPHET SEES JEROBOAM'S DOOM
1 Kings 14:1
How blind we become when we sin against our conscience! Each act of
willful sin puts another shade on the window of the soul. “Their
foolish heart...
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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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For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and
he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their
fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the (m) river, becau...
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Water. The kingdom of Israel was continually agitated with wars. ---
River Euphrates, by degrees. The kings of Assyria verified these
predictions; and we know not what is become of these ten tribes.
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(6) And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she
came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why
feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee wit...
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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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AND THE LORD SHALL SMITE ISRAEL AS A REED IS SHAKEN IN THE WATER,....
Either by the wind or by the stream; and may signify the fluctuating
and uncertain condition Israel should be in future reigns, th...
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_For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water,
and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to
their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because...
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1 Kin. 14:14, 15. It is God's manner in Scripture, when threatening
the wicked for their sins, to pass from those judgments that are soon
to be inflicted, and are the more immediate, and which are the...
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_For the Lord shall smite Israel_ For consenting to that idolatrous
worship which Jeroboam set up. _As a reed is shaken in the water_
Hither and thither, with every wind. So shall the kingdom and peop...
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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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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 se...
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7-20 Whether we keep an account of God's mercies to us or not, he
does; and he will set them in order before us, if we are ungrateful,
to our greater confusion. Ahijah foretells the speedy death of t...
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THE LORD SHALL SMITE ISRAEL, because they obeyed Jeroboam's wicked
command of worshipping the calves, and that willingly, HOSEA 5:11. AS
A REED IS SHAKEN IN THE WATER; easily and variously, hither and...
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1 Kings 14:15 LORD H3068 strike H5221 (H8689) Israel H3478 reed H7070
shaken H5110 (H8799) water H4325 uproot...
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“ For YHWH will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and
he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their
fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they ha...
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JEROBOAM'S WIFE APPROACHES AHIJAH THE PROPHET CONCERNING THE SICKNESS
OF THEIR SON (1 KINGS 14:1).
The life story of Jeroboam concludes with a quite remarkable story. It
would appear that there was on...
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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. I...
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_At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick._
A GOOD BOY AND A BAD FAMILY
One beautiful flower in a desert; one lovely rose amongst thorns; one
fruitful branch on a corrupt tree. We are going...
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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 14:1__ Jeroboam had been promised a dynasty
(“house”) just like David’s (1 Kings 11:38). His desire to have
a temple (“house”) just like David’s, however, led him into
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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 14:15 In the absence of a strong dynasty to
rule Israel, the nation is destined to know only the instability of a
REED... SHAKEN (or “swaying”) IN THE WATER. Eventually the
Isr...
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THE REIGNS OF JEROBOAM AND REHOBOAM
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1 Kings 14:1. ABIJAH, THE SON OF JEROBOAM—Natural heir to the
kingdom. His sickness, therefore, seemed to imperil the continuance...
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EXPOSITION
THE DEATH OF JEROBOAM'S SON.—The protest of the prophet of Judah,
the signs which supported it, and above all the solemn visitation,
with its strange portents, which straightway followed it...
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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 14:23; 1 Kings 14:24; 1 Kings 14:9; 1 Samuel 12:25; 2 K
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Is shaken — Hither and thither, with every wind. So shall the
kingdom and people of Israel be always in an unquiet and unsettled
posture, tossed to and fro by foreign invasions and civil wars; by
oppo...