-
Verse 1 Kings 13:11. _AN OLD PROPHET_] Probably once a prophet of the
Lord, who had fallen from his steadfastness, and yet not so deeply as
to lose the knowledge of the true God, and join with Jeroboa...
-
The truly pious Israelites quitted their homes when Jeroboam made his
religious changes, and, proceeding to Jerusalem, strengthened the
kingdom of Rehoboam 2 Chronicles 10:16. This “old prophet”
there...
-
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...
-
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...
-
IN BETH-EL.. true prophet could not have remained there. Compare 2
Chronicles 11:16; 2 Chronicles 11:17.
AND HIS SONS. Septuagint reads "whose sons".
THE WORDS. Syriac and Vulg, read "and the words...
-
The prophet of Judah is deceived and brought back to Bethel (Not in
Chronicles)
11. _Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth-el_ Josephus describes him
as -a wicked old man, a false prophet, whom Jerob...
-
AN OLD PROPHET—AND HIS SONS CAME AND TOLD HIM— It appears from
this, that these sons of the old prophet were present when Jeroboam
stood at the altar, and therefore joined in that idolatrous worship,...
-
B. THE DECEPTION OF THE MAN OF GOD 13:11-19
TRANSLATION
(11) Now a certain old prophet lived in Bethel; and his son[347] came
and related to him all which the man of God had done that day in
Bethel;...
-
_NOW THERE DWELT AN OLD PROPHET IN BETHEL; AND HIS SONS CAME AND TOLD
HIM ALL THE WORKS THAT THE MAN OF GOD HAD DONE THAT DAY IN BETHEL: THE
WORDS WHICH HE HAD SPOKEN UNTO THE KING, THEM THEY TOLD ALS...
-
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...
-
THERE DWELT.. BETH-EL] The fact that the old prophet remained at
Bethel and acquiesced without protest in the king's idolatry indicated
that he was not loyal to the principles of spiritual religion. B...
-
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...
-
AN OLD PROPHET IN BETHEL. — The narrative clearly implies — and,
indeed, part of its most striking instructiveness depends on this —
that this old prophet was not a mere pretender to prophetic
inspira...
-
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...
-
LED ASTRAY BY A FALSE MESSENGER
1 Kings 13:11
The unnamed prophet from Judah had received distinct instructions not
to eat bread nor drink water while on his divinely-commissioned
errand. He was ther...
-
BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS
1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
-
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...
-
_Bethel, originally (Haydock) from Samaria, 4 Kings xxiii. 18.
(Menochius) --- Josias would have burnt his bones, like those of the
false prophets, if they had not be blended with those of the man of...
-
(11) В¶ Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came
and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in
Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they t...
-
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...
-
_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...
-
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...
-
NOW THERE DWELT AN OLD PROPHET IN BETHEL,.... The Targum is, a false
prophet, so Josephus b; it is hard to say what he was, a good man or a
bad man; if a good man, he was guilty of many things which a...
-
_Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told
him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the
words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told als...
-
_There dwelt an old prophet in Beth-el_ One to whom and by whom God
did sometimes reveal his will, as is manifest from 1 Kings 13:20; and
one who had a respect to God's holy prophets, and gave credit...
-
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...
-
THE PROPHET PUNISHED FOR HIS DISOBEDIENCE...
-
Now, there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel, a member of the great
brotherhood of prophets found in Israel since the time of Samuel, who
had, however, joined the forces of Jeroboam; AND HIS SONS CAME AN...
-
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...
-
11-22 The old prophet's conduct proves that he was not really a godly
man. When the change took place under Jeroboam, he preferred his ease
and interest to his religion. He took a very bad method to...
-
AN OLD PROPHET; a prophet of the Lord; one to whom and by whom God did
sometimes impart his mind, as is manifest from 1 KINGS 13:20,21, and
one first had a respect to the Lord's holy prophets, and gav...
-
1 Kings 13:11 an H259 old H2205 prophet H5030 dwelt H3427 (H8802)
Bethel H1008 sons H1121 came H935 ...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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
-
_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...
-
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
-
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...
-
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)...
-
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...
-
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...
-
1 Kings 13:20; 1 Kings 13:21; 1 Samuel 10:11; 1 Timothy 3:5; 2
-
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 predictio...