1 Kings 13:1
Man of God — An holy prophet. By the word, &c. — By Divine inspiration and command.... [ Continue Reading ]
Man of God — An holy prophet. By the word, &c. — By Divine inspiration and command.... [ Continue Reading ]
The altar — And consequently, against all that worship. O altar — He directs his speech to the altar, because the following signs were wrought upon it. Josiah — Which being done above three hundred years after this prophecy, plainly shews the absolute certainty of God's providence; and fore — knowle... [ Continue Reading ]
Gave a sign — That is, he then wrought a miracle, to assure them of the truth of his prophecy.... [ Continue Reading ]
Put forth, &c. — To point out the man whom he would have the people lay hands on. The altar — Where it was employed in offering something upon it. Dried up — Or, withered, the muscles and sinews, the instruments of motion, shrunk up. This God did, to chastise Jeroboam for offering violence to the Lo... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy God — Who hath manifested himself to be thy God and friend, in a singular manner; and therefore will hear thy prayers for me, though he will not regard mine, because I have forsaken him and his worship. Besought — To assure Jeroboam, that what he had said, was not from ill — will to him, and tha... [ Continue Reading ]
For so, &c. — My refusal of thy favour, is not from any contempt, or hatred of thy person; but in obedience to the just command of my God, who hath forbidden me all father converse or communication with thee. Eat nor drink — In that place, or with that people. Whereby God declares, how detestable th... [ Continue Reading ]
A prophet — One to whom, and by whom God did sometimes impart his mind; as it is manifest from 1 Kings 13:20, and one that had a respect to the Lord's holy prophets, and gave credit to their predictions: but whether he was a good man, may be doubted, seeing we find him in a downright lie, 1 Kings 13... [ Continue Reading ]
Cried — With a loud voice, the effect of his passion, both for his own guilt and shame, and for the prophet's approaching misery.... [ Continue Reading ]
Shall not, &c. — Thou shalt not die a natural, but a violent death; and that in this journey, before thou returnest to thy native habitation. But is it not strange that the lying prophet escapes, while the man of God is so severely punished? Certainly there must be a judgment to come, when these thi... [ Continue Reading ]
Saddled for him — But, it is observable, he doth not accompany him; his guilty conscience making him fear to be involved in the same judgment with him.... [ Continue Reading ]
Slew him — But why doth God punish a good man so severely for so small an offence? His sin was not small, for it was a gross disobedience to a positive command. And it cannot seem strange if God should bring his deserved death upon him in this manner, for the accomplishment of his own glorious desig... [ Continue Reading ]
He found, &c. — Here was a concurrence of miracles: that the ass did not run away from the lion, according to his nature, but boldly stood still, as reserving himself to carry the prophet to his burial; that the lion did not devour its prey, nor yet go away when he had done his work, but stood still... [ Continue Reading ]
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 their madness and desperate wickedness, in continuing in their abominable idolatry, after such an assu... [ Continue Reading ]
When I am dead, &c — Tho' he was a lying prophet, yet he desired to die the death of a true prophet. Gather not my Soul with the sinners of Beth — el, but with this man of God: Because what he cried against the altar of Beth — el, shall surely come to pass. Thus by the mouth of two witnesses was it... [ Continue Reading ]
Samaria — That is, of the kingdom of Samaria; as it was called, though not when this fact was done, yet before these books were written. Samaria was properly this name of one city, 1 Kings 21:1, but from hence the whole kingdom of Israel was so called.... [ Continue Reading ]
After this — That is, after all these things: the singular number put for the plural; after so many, and evident, and successive miracles. Made again — He abated not so much as a circumstance in his idolatrous worship. Whosoever — Without any respect to tribe or family, or integrity of body, or mind... [ Continue Reading ]
Sin — Either, an occasion of sin, and means of hardening all his posterity in their idolatry: or, a punishment, for so the word sin is often used. This his obstinate continuance in his idolatry, after such warnings, was the utter ruin of all his family. They betray themselves effectually, who endeav... [ Continue Reading ]