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1 Kings 14:28

And it was so, when the king went into the house of the Lord, that the guard bare them, accompanying the king in solemn procession, and brought them back into the guard-chamber, evidently a room in the house of the forest of Lebanon, 1 Kings 10:17. One commentator suggests that the highly polished copper shields, access to which was denied the common people, were intended to deceive them concerning the true state of affairs.

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See also 1 Kings 14:28 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Kings 14:28. _THE GUARD BARE THEM_] The guard probably were just _three hundred_, answering to the number of the shields....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    It appears from this verse that Rehoboam, notwithstanding that he encouraged, and perhaps secretly practiced, idolatry (1 Kings 14:22, compare 1Ki 15:3, 1 Kings 15:12;...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And it was_so, _when_ For -when" the R.V. gives, AS OFTEN AS. The Hebrew word is not common. It occurs 1Sa 18:30; 2 Kings 4:8; in the latter place the A.V. gives -as oft as," and in the former the R....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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-...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND KING REHOBOAM MADE IN THEIR STEAD BRASEN SHIELDS, AND COMMITTED THEM UNTO THE HANDS OF THE CHIEF OF THE GUARD, WHICH KEPT THE DOOR OF THE KING'S HOUSE._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WHEN THE KING WENT. — Hence we see that Rehoboam still worshipped in the house of the Lord. If his idolatry were like that of his father, it would not have prevented this; but in 2 Chronicles 12:6; 2...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְהִ֛י מִ דֵּי ־בֹ֥א הַ מֶּ֖לֶךְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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 emp...

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

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (25) And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: (26) And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of th...

  • 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 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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND IT WAS SO, WHEN THE KING WENT INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD,.... The temple; for though he had fallen into idolatry, he had not wholly forsaken the worship of God in the temple, and perhaps by the la...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And it was [so], when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber. Ver. 28. _That the guard bare them._] _Propter periculum insidi...

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

    _When the king went to the house of the Lord_ It appears from this, that he had not quite forsaken the worship or God; but still, at least occasionally, attended at the temple: or, if he had forsaken...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    TORN: _ Heb._ broken...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 f...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WHEN THE KING WENT INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD; by which it seems the affliction had done him some good, and brought him back to the worship of God, which he had forsaken....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Kings 14:28 whenever H1767 king H4428 entered H935 (H8800) house H1004 LORD H3068 guards H7323 (H8801) carried...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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:...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 14:21__ The text now returns to Rehoboam’s reign and what has been happening in Judah. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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 of...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 12:11...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    To the house, &c. — By which it seems the affliction had done him some good, and brought him back to the worship of God, which he had forsaken....

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