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UNTO THIS DAY - This expression shows that the writer, who lived
during the captivity, and consequently long after the rebellion of
Israel had come to an end, is embodying in his history the exact wor...
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III. THE DIVIDED KINGDOM
1. Rehoboam and the Revolt of the Ten Tribes
CHAPTER 12
_ 1. The revolt of the northern tribes (1 Kings 12:1)_
2. The threatening war averted (1 Kings 12:21)
3. Jeroboam'...
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THE REVOLT OF THE NORTHERN TRIBES. It is doubtful whether this section
is Judæ an or not. It bears some resemblance to 2 Samuel 9-20, and
the parts of 1 K. which seem to be a continuation of that hist...
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UNTO THIS DAY. Compare 1 Kings 8:8. This was written certainly before
the removal of Israel in 2 Kings 17....
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_unto this day_ This phrase occurring several times in the book marks
the original composition, from which the compiler of the Kings drew
his material, as written while the two kingdoms were still exi...
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C. THE REBELLION OF ISRAEL 12:16-20
TRANSLATION
(16) When all of Israel saw that the king did not hearken unto them,
the people responded to the king, saying, What portion do we have in
David? We hav...
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_SO WHEN ALL ISRAEL SAW THAT THE KING HEARKENED NOT UNTO THEM, THE
PEOPLE ANSWERED THE KING, SAYING, WHAT PORTION HAVE WE IN DAVID?
NEITHER HAVE WE INHERITANCE IN THE SON OF JESSE: TO YOUR TENTS, O
IS...
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THE REVOLT OF THE TEN TRIBES. REHOBOAM AND JEROBOAM
The revolt of the Ten Tribes against the rule of Rehoboam had its
origin partly in the discontent which the burdens laid on the people
by Solomon ha...
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UNTO THIS DAY] This passage must originally have been written not only
before the destruction of Jerusalem but of Samaria: cp. 1 Samuel 8:8....
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GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY
1 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 12
THE *KINGDOM DIVIDES
V1 Rehoboam went to Shechem. All the *Israelites had gone there to
make him king. V2 Jeroboam the son of Nebat w...
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UNTO THIS DAY. — The phrase argues the incorporation into the
narrative of an older document....
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וַ יִּפְשְׁע֤וּ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ בְּ בֵ֣ית
דָּוִ֔ד...
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THE DISRUPTION
1 Kings 12:6
"It was of the Lord." It is no small proof of the insight and
courageous faithfulness of the historian that he accepts without
question the verdict of ancient prophecy tha...
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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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THE KINGDOM RENT IN TWAIN
1 Kings 12:12
Rehoboam richly deserved his fate. He was forty-one years old, 2
Chronicles 12:13, and ought to have known better. His speech betrayed
the _despot_. He had no...
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In this and the four following Chapter s we have the central section
of this Book recording the tragedy of the break-up of the nation and
the degradation of the people. It covers a period of about six...
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So Israel rebelled against the house (g) of David unto this day.
(g) By the just judgment of God for Solomon's sins....
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(16) В¶ So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto
them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in
David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tent...
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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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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11 AND 12.
Till now we have had the beautiful picture of God's blessing resting
upon the son of David, whose only desire it had been to possess wisdom
from Go...
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SO ISRAEL REBELLED AGAINST THE HOUSE OF DAVID UNTO THIS DAY. In which
the writer of this book lived, and so continued until their captivity
by the king of Assyria. Their revolt is called a rebellion;...
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So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
Ver. 19. _So Israel rebelled._] Rebellion it was in them, and no
better: though nothing was therein done, but by the determinate
counsel o...
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_So Israel rebelled against the house of David_ And thereby fulfilled
God's threatening denounced to Solomon. Nevertheless their conduct in
this was sinful, as they did not revolt in compliance with G...
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1 The Israelites assembled at Shechem to crowne Rehoboam, by Ieroboam
make a suite of relaxation vnto him.
6 Rehoboam refusing the olde mens counsell, by the aduice of young
men, answereth them rough...
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So Israel rebelled against, and thus seceded from, THE HOUSE OF DAVID
UNTO THIS DAY, the time when this account was written....
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JEROBOAM KING OVER ISRAEL...
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THE TEN TRIBES REBEL
(vs.1-24)
Rehoboam went to Shechem for his inauguration as king of Israel (v.1).
Jereboam, in Egypt, received word quickly of Solomon's death, and his
friends in Israel sent to...
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REBELLED:
Or, fell away...
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16-24 The people speak unbecomingly of David. How soon are good men,
and their good services to the public, forgotten ! These
considerations should reconcile us to our losses and troubles, that
God is...
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Their revolt is called _rebellion_, and therefore was sinful, because
it was contrary to God's authority, and command of subjection to
David, and his seed for ever; from which the people were not free...
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1 Kings 12:19 Israel H3478 rebellion H6586 (H8799) house H1004 David
H1732 day H3117
Israel -...
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REHOBOAM SEEKS TO WHIP ISRAEL INTO LINE BUT IS PREVENTED BY YHWH
WHILST JEROBOAM IS MADE KING OVER ALL ISRAEL (1 KINGS 12:17).
Rehoboam still had total control over all who dwelt in the cities of
Jud...
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THE KINGDOM IN CRISIS AND THE COLLAPSE OF AN EMPIRE (1 KINGS 12:1 TO 1
KINGS 14:31).
The death of Solomon, as always with the death of a king who had ruled
powerfully for a long time and had been some...
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CONTENTS: Accession and folly of Rehoboam. Kingdom divided.
CHARACTERS: God, Rehoboam, Jeroboam, Adoram, Shemiah.
CONCLUSION: Taking the counsel of unspiritual men always spells
blunder and a rough...
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1 Kings 12:1. _Shechem._ This city was famed for mischief. Here Dinah
was ruined, and the men slaughtered. Here Joseph was sold, and now the
ten tribes revolted.
1 Kings 12:4. _Thy father made our yok...
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_When Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who was in Egypt heard of it _. .. _
they sent and called him._
THE KINGDOM DIVIDED
1. This chapter reveals one of the turning-points in Israel’s
history, for it is...
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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 12:1 The Kingdom Is Divided. Two kingdoms
emerge. Judah is made up of two tribes (Judah and Benjamin) in the
south and is ruled by Rehoboam. Israel is made up of the ten northe...
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THE DISRUPTION OF THE KINGDOM
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1 Kings 12:1. REHOBOAM WENT TO SHECHEM—Instead of remaining in
_Jerusalem_, whither Israel should have come to him, as they did to
David...
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EXPOSITION
THE REVOLT OF THE TEN TRIBES.—With the reign of Rehoboam, on which
our historian now enters, we begin the second great period in the
history of the Hebrew monarchy, so far as it is related...
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Now Rehoboam came to Shechem: and all Israel gathered to Shechem (1
Kings 12:1)
Which is just about the center of the land, just about the heart of
the country. And they gathered
to make him king. An...
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1 Samuel 10:19; 2 Chronicles 10:19; 2 Chronicles 13:17; 2 Chronicles
13:5;...
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Rebelled — Their revolt was sinful, as they did not this in
compliance with God's counsel, but to gratify their own passions....