Commentaries Dictionaries Concordances
Continues after advertising

See also 1 Kings 11 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _SOLOMON LOVES STRANGE WOMEN, BY WHOM HE IS DRAWN TO IDOLATRY. GOD RAISES UP AGAINST HIM HADAD AND REZON, AND DECLARES TO JEROBOAM, BY THE PROPHET AHIJAH, THAT HE SHALL REIGN OVER TEN TRIBES. JEROBOAM...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER NINE SOLOMON'S TRANSGRESSIONS AND TROUBLES 1 Kings 11:1-43 A long period of peace always proves a serious time of testing for a nation. Because of polygamy, idolatry, excessive taxation and...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XI. The historical order in this chapter is curiously broken. (_a_) In 1 Kings 11:1 we have a notice of the polygamy and idolatry of Solomon, and the prediction of the transference of the kingdom to h...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 11 This chapter relates the false steps Solomon took, notwithstanding all his wisdom, in marrying strange wives, and worshipping other gods, 1 Kings 11:1 upon which the Lord t...

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

    _A.M. 3012. B.C. 992._ Solomon's many wives turn his heart from God, 1 Kings 11:1. God reproves and threatens him, 1 Kings 11:9. Stirs up Hadad and Rezon against him, 1 Kings 11:14. An account of Jer...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Solomons wiues and concubines. 4 In his old age they draw him to idolatry. 9 God threatneth him. 14 Solomons aduersaries were Hadad, who was intertained in Egypt, 23 Rezon who reigned in Damascu...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    * Solomon's wives and concubines, His idolatry. (1-8) God's anger. (9-13) Solomon's adversaries. (14-25) Jeroboam's promotion. (26-40) The death of Solomon. (41-43)...

Continues after advertising