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1 Kings 13:24

a lion met him That beasts of prey were common in the land at this time we may see from the history of the shepherd life of David, where he encountered both a lion and a bear (1 Samuel 17:34). The death of the prophet was caused by a stroke of the beast's paw, but to shew that it was a visitation of the Lord, the natural instinct of the lion to devour what it has slain is checked, and instead of tearing the body, it stands by it as a guard.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 24. _A LION MET HIM - AND SLEW HIM_] By permitting himself to be seduced by the old prophet, when he should have acted only on the expressly declared counsel of God, he committed _the sin unto_...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    A LION. For lions in Palestine see Judges 14:5; 1 Samuel 17:34; 2 Samuel 23:20. 2Sa 20:36....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    A LION MET HIM BY THE WAY, AND SLEW HIM— There was a wood not far from Beth-el, out of which the two she-bears came, mentioned 2 Kings 2:24; and it is not unlikely that out of the same wood came the l...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. THE CONDEMNATION OF THE MAN OF GOD 13:20-26 TRANSLATION (20) And it came to pass as they were sitting at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet who brought him back; (21) and h...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND WHEN HE WAS GONE, A LION MET HIM BY THE WAY, AND SLEW HIM: AND HIS CARCASE WAS CAST IN THE WAY, AND THE ASS STOOD BY IT, THE LION ALSO STOOD BY THE CARCASE._ A LION MET HIM BY THE WAY, AND SLEW H...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    A LION] for lions in Palestine cp. Judges 14:5; 1 Samuel 17:34; 2 Samuel 23:20; 1 Kings 20:36;...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    A LION. — The lion is noticed in the Old Testament not unfrequently, especially in Southern Palestine: at Timnath (Judges 14:5); near Bethlehem (1 Samuel 17:34); at Kabzeel, in Judah (2 Samuel 23:20);...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֵּ֕לֶךְ וַ יִּמְצָאֵ֧הוּ אַרְיֵ֛ה בַּ †...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...

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

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And when he was gone, (k) a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase. (k) By this fearful example, God s...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Killed him. Thus the Lord often punishes his servants here, that he may spare them hereafter. For the generality of divines[theologians] are of opinion, that the sin of this prophet, considered with a...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • 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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE PROPHET OF JUDAH_ ‘The prophet of Judah.’ 1 Kings 13:1 The altar at Beth-el was an ill-omened altar. The shadow of ruin was on it from the first. On the very morning of its inauguration, when...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND WHEN HE WAS GONE, A LION MET HIM BY THE WAY, AND SLEW HIM,.... Perhaps not far from Bethel; and this lion might come out of the same wood the she bears did, that devoured the children that mocked...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase. Ver. 24. _A lion met him by the way, a...

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

    _He saddled for him the ass_ But it is observable, he does not accompany him: his guilty conscience making him fear to be involved in the same judgment with him. _A lion met him by the way, and slew h...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PROPHET PUNISHED FOR HIS DISOBEDIENCE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way and slew him. And his carcass was cast in the way, thrown down from the beast which he had been riding, AND THE ASS STOOD BY IT; THE LION ALSO STOOD BY...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    A LION MET HIM; for there were many lions in Judea, and this was brought hither by God's special providence. Why doth God punish a good man so severely for so small an offence? ANSW. First, His sin wa...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Kings 13:24 gone H3212 (H8799) lion H738 met H4672 (H8799) road H1870 killed H4191 (H8686) corpse...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him._ A SHARP PUNISHMENT ACCORDS But, surely, to be slain by a lion on the way home was a much too sharp punishment for taking one’s supper...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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)...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 11:31; 1 Corinthians 11:32; 1 Kings 20:36; 1 Peter 4:17;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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 shoul...

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