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Verse 1 Kings 13:30. _ALAS, MY BROTHERS_] This lamentation is very
simple, very short, and very pathetic. Perhaps the old prophet said it
as much in reference to _himself_, who had been the cause of...
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HE LAID HIS CARCASE IN HIS OWN GRAVE - As Joseph of Arimathaea did the
body of our Lord Matthew 27:60. The possession of rock-hewn tombs by
families, or individuals, was common among the Jews from the...
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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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GRAVE. sepulchre. Hebrew. _keber,_. burying-place,. pit. Compare
App-35....
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_in his own grave_ Treating him as though he had been one of his own
family.
_Alas, my brother_ This seems to have been a form of lamentation used
over the dead. Cf. Jeremiah 22:18....
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D. THE LAMENTATION FOR THE MAN OF GOD 13:27-32
TRANSLATION
(27) Then he spoke unto his sons, saying, saddle for me the donkey,
and they saddled it. (28) And he went and found his carcass cast in
the...
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_AND, BEHOLD, MEN PASSED BY, AND SAW THE CARCASE CAST IN THE WAY, AND
THE LION STANDING BY THE CARCASE: AND THEY CAME AND TOLD IT IN THE
CITY WHERE THE OLD PROPHET DWELT._
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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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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(30-32) THEY MOURNED. — The mourning of the old prophet, and the
burial of the body in his own sepulchre, probably show some touch of
remorse and personal compassion for the victim of his treacherous...
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וַ יַּנַּ֥ח אֶת ־נִבְלָתֹ֖ו בְּ
קִבְרֹ֑ו וַ
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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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SIGN UPON SIGN UNHEEDED
1 Kings 13:20
There is a tragic note in this paragraph. The man of God had performed
God's errand bravely and well, and his words were verified by the
result; but he perished...
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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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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 laid his carcase in his (m) own grave; and they mourned over
him, [saying], Alas, my brother!
(m) Which he had prepared for himself....
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_Brother. Such titles were customary, Jeremias xxii. 18. (Menochius)_...
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(12) And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons
had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah. (13) And
he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled hi...
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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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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 LAID HIS CARCASS IN HIS OWN GRAVE,.... Which he had prepared
for himself; for, as he came from Samaria, it could not be the
sepulchre of his fathers; and this was showing all the respect, and
d...
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_The prophet_, (namely, the _old prophet,_) _took up the carcass of
the man of God_ “If there were any truth,” says Henry, “in the
vulgar opinion, sure the corpse bled afresh when he touched it; for h...
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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 laid his carcass in his own grave, in the sepulcher reserved
for his own family, treating the dead man like a near and dear
relative, AND THEY MOURNED OVER HIM, SAYING, ALAS, MY BROTHER! This
w...
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THE PROPHET PUNISHED FOR HIS DISOBEDIENCE...
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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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23-34 God is displeased at the sins of his own people; and no man
shall be protected in disobedience, by his office, his nearness to
God, or any services he has done for him. God warns all whom he
em...
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So that threatening, 1 KINGS 13:22, was fulfilled; and withal, the
memory of his prophecy was revived and preserved among them, and his
very carcass resting there might be a witness of their madness a...
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1 Kings 13:30 laid H3240 (H8686) corpse H5038 tomb H6913 mourned H5594
(H8799) Alas H1945 brother H251...
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THE OLD PROPHET AND THE MAN OF GOD (1 KINGS 13:11).
Meanwhile dwelling in Bethel was an old prophet who had served YHWH
for many years. The fact that he was not present at the celebrations
taking pla...
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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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_And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard
thereof._
ON THE CHARACTER OF THE OLD PROPHET OF BETHEL
The most careful review of this man’s conduct does not make it easy
to comprehen...
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_Now there dwelt an old man in Bethel _
THE NAMELESS PROPHET
This passage forms part of a very remarkable narrative.
The miraculous element is so prominent that certain critics would have
the chapte...
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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 13:7 Jeroboam’s invitation to the MAN OF
GOD to dine and receive a REWARD is an attempt to buy his loyalty,
perhaps hoping for the curse on the altar to be reversed. The
invita...
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1 Kings 13:11. AN OLD PROPHET IN BETHEL: who had been faithless amid
surrounding faithlessness. His alertness to win the prophet of Judah
to his house arose from
(1)...
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EXPOSITION
THE DISOBEDIENCE AND DEATH OF THE MAN OF GOD.—The seduction of the
man of God, who has borne such fearless witness against Jeroboam's
ecclesiastical policy, and his tragical end, are now na...
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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 Kings 14:13; Acts 8:2; Jeremiah 22:18...
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His grave — So that threatening, 1 Kings 13:22, was fulfilled; and
withal, the memory of his prophecy was revived and preserved among
them, and his very carcase resting there, might be a witness of th...