1 KINGS CHAPTER 16 Jehu prophesieth against Baasha, 1 KINGS 16:1, Elah succeedeth him: him Zimri slayeth and succeedeth: he, besieged by Omri, burneth himself, 1 KINGS 16:8. Omri prevaileth against Tibni, and is king; buildeth Samaria; followeth the sins of Jeroboam, and dieth, 1 KINGS 16:21. Ahab h... [ Continue Reading ]
Out OF THE DUST; out of a low and mean estate. See 1 SAMUEL 2:8 PSALMS 113:7. QUEST: How is Baasha's exaltation to the kingdom ascribed to God, when he got it by treachery and cruelty? Answ. Though that way or manner of invading the kingdom was from himself, and his own wicked heart; yet the transla... [ Continue Reading ]
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BY THE HAND OF THE PROPHET JEHU CAME THE WORD OF THE LORD: the meaning is, the message which _came from the Lord to Jehu_, 1 KINGS 16:1, &c., was here delivered _by the hand_, i.e. the ministry, of _Jehu_, unto Baasha. Jehu did what God commanded him in this matter, though it was not without apparen... [ Continue Reading ]
One complete, and part of the other, 1 KINGS 16:10, which in Scripture account is reckoned for a year. SEE POOLE ON "1 KINGS 15:25".... [ Continue Reading ]
CAPTAIN OF HALF HIS CHARIOTS, i.e. of all his military chariots, and the men belonging to them; the chariots for carriage of necessary things being put into other and meaner hands. AS HE WAS IN TIRZAH; whilst his forces were elsewhere employed, 1 KINGS 16:15, which gave Zimri advantage to execute hi... [ Continue Reading ]
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KINSFOLKS, Heb. _avengers_; to whom it belonged to revenge his death: see NUMBERS 35:12. NOR OF HIS FRIENDS; his confidants and familiar acquaintance, such as were most likely to hinder his settlement in the throne, and to avenge their friend's quarrel.... [ Continue Reading ]
i. e. Thus fulfilling God's threatening, but either without his knowledge, or merely for his own ends.... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. Idols, oft called _vanities_, as DEUTERONOMY 32:21 1 SAMUEL 12:21 JEREMIAH 14:22, because they are but imaginary deities, and mere _nothings_, 1 CORINTHIANS 8:4, having nothing at all of a God in them, and nothing of power to do either good or hurt.... [ Continue Reading ]
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Which had been besieged before, 1 KINGS 15:27, but, it seems, was then relieved, or afterwards recovered by the Philistines, taking the advantage of the disorders and contentions which were among their enemies.... [ Continue Reading ]
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BURNT THE KING'S HOUSE OVER HIM; or, _and he burnt_, &c. Either, 1. Omri burnt it over Zimri; for pronouns sometimes respect more remote nouns. Or rather, 2. Zimri, (to whom both the foregoing and following words apparently belong,) who burnt it upon himself, that neither himself nor the royal pal... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HIS SINS, i.e. this befell him for his sins. WALKING IN THE WAY OF JEROBOAM; which he might do, either before his reign, in the whole course of his life, which is justly charged upon him, because of his impenitency; or in the seven days of his reign; in which he had time enough to publish his in... [ Continue Reading ]
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THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL fell into a civil war; yet neither this nor any other of God's dreadful judgments could win them to repentance; which is an evidence of their prodigious impiety and incorrigibleness, and how ripe they were for ruin. HALF OF THE PEOPLE FOLLOWED TIBNI, disdaining that the soldiers... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PEOPLE THAT FOLLOWED OMRI PREVAILED; partly because they had the army on their side; and principally by the appointment and judgment of God, giving up the Israelites to him who was much the worst, 1 KINGS 16:25,26. TIBNI DIED a violent death in the battle.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEGAN OMRI TO REIGN OVER ISRAEL TWELVE YEARS, i.e. and he reigned twelve years, not from this thirty-first year of Asa, for he died in his thirty-eighth year, 1 KINGS 16:29; but from the beginning of his reign, which was in Asa's twenty-seventh year, 1 KINGS 16:15,16. So he reigned four years in a s... [ Continue Reading ]
BUILT ON THE HILL, to wit, the city; and especially, a royal palace, because that at Tirzah was burnt, 1 KINGS 16:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
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HE WALKED IN ALL THE WAY OF JEROBOAM, i.e. did not only promote the worship of the calves, as Jeroboam and all his successors hitherto had done; but did also imitate all Jeroboam's other sins, which doubtless were many and great; and peradventure he added this to the rest, that together with the cal... [ Continue Reading ]
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AS IF IT HAD BEEN A LIGHT THING FOR HIM; as if that sin were not big enough to express his contempt of God; as if he thought it below his wit and dignity to content himself with such a vulgar fault. But the Hebrew runs thus, _Was it a light thing_, &c.? i.e. was this but a small sin, that therefore... [ Continue Reading ]
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AHAB MADE A GROVE, against God's express prohibition, DEUTERONOMY 7:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN HIS DAYS: this is here added, 1. As a character of the time, and an instance of the truth and certainty of Divine predictions and comminations, this being fulfilled eight hundred years after it was threatened; and withal, as a warning to the Israelites, not to think themselves innocent or safe,... [ Continue Reading ]