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7. SOLOMON'S FAILURE: JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED AND THE BEGINNING OF
DISRUPTION
CHAPTER 11
_ 1. Solomon's polygamy and departure from God (1 Kings 11:1)_
2. Hadad the Edomite (1 Kings 11:14)
3. Rezon the...
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SIN OF SOLOMON, AND THE ADVERSARIES RAISED UP IN CONSEQUENCE. From
various differences in the arrangement of the earlier verses in the
LXX and Heb., it has been supposed that in its original form the...
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REIGNED. David had subdued Syria (2Sa 8:3, 2 Samuel 8:6; 2 Samuel
10:8; 2 Samuel 10:18). Now Solomon, weakened by sin, loses Syria....
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_all the days of Solomon_ Probably Rezon was able to establish himself
in Damascus even before the death of David. For some time he would be
obliged to collect his strength to be ready for future atta...
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C. THE REBELLION OF REZON 11:23-25
TRANSLATION
(23) And God raised up to him an adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah,
who had fled from Hadadezer king of Zobah, his lord. (24) And he
gathered around h...
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_AND HE GATHERED MEN UNTO HIM, AND BECAME CAPTAIN OVER A BAND, WHEN
DAVID SLEW THEM OF ZOBAH: AND THEY WENT TO DAMASCUS, AND DWELT
THEREIN, AND REIGNED IN DAMASCUS._
No JFB commentary on these verses...
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SOLOMON'S ERRORS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES. HIS DEATH
This chapter furnishes an account of Solomon's marriages with numerous
foreign princesses, and traces the evil effect of such in the
toleration of i...
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GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY
1 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 11
SOLOMON *WORSHIPS FALSE GODS
V1 Solomon, however, loved many foreign women. He married the
daughter of the king of Egypt. He also mar...
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(14-25) The events recorded in this section belong, at least in part,
to the early years of the reign of Solomon. when the deaths of the
warlike David and Joab, and the accession of a mere youth of av...
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BESIDE THE MISCHIEF THAT HADAD DID. — The expression, as it stands,
is curiously abrupt in its recurrence to Hadad. But the text is
doubtful. (See Note on 1 Kings 11:21.) If the general reading of the...
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וַ יְהִ֨י שָׂטָ֤ן לְ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ כָּל
־יְמֵ֣י
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HOLLOW PROSPERITY
1 Kings 11:1
"Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is
vanity."
- Ecclesiastes 1:2
"At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass of
ra...
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THE WIND AND THE WHIRLWIND
1 Kings 11:14
"He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption."
- Galatians 6:8
SUCH degeneracy could not show itself in the king without danger to
his pe...
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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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ADVERSARIES OF THE RECREANT KING
1 Kings 11:14
Two of the instruments of Solomon's chastisement are enumerated in
this paragraph.
First, _Hadad, the Edomite_, 1 Kings 11:14. Notice the importance of...
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At this point the story of Solomon suddenly changes. The glory passes
away, and we observe his rapid degeneracy and doom. The nature of the
man had ever a strong animal side. His commercial enterprise...
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Solomon, after he once began. (Haydock) --- Adad. Hebrew, "and with
the evil of Adad, and he detested Israel." (Menochius) --- Razon and
Adad conspired to attack Solomon. (Haydock) --- Adad may be the...
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(23) And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of
Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah: (24) And he
gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David...
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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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AND HE WAS AN ADVERSARY TO ISRAEL ALL THE DAYS OF SOLOMON,.... Not all
the days of his life, see 1 Kings 5:4, but all his days, from his
first going into idolatry, to the end of his life:
BESIDE THE...
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And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the
mischief that Hadad [did]: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over
Syria.
Ver. 25. _All the days of Solomon._] But stirred not m...
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_He was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon_ This, perhaps,
is not to be understood of the whole reign of Solomon, which for the
most part was peaceable, but of all the days which remained...
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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...
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And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the
mischief that Hadad did; and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over
Syria. As the power and fame of Solomon were declining, these me...
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Solomon's Adversaries and Death...
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MANY MARRIAGES LEADING TO IDOLATRY
(vs.1-13)
Solomon also disobeyedDeuteronomy 17:17 in making many marriages with
foreign women, from the Moabites, Alnmonites, Edomites, Sidonians and
Hittites (v.1)...
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14-25 While Solomon kept close to God and to his duty, there was no
enemy to give him uneasiness; but here we have an account of two. If
against us, he can make us fear even the least, and the very
gr...
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He was a secret enemy, watching all occasions to do them mischief
cunningly and privately all that time; and when Solomon had forsaken
God, and was forsaken by God, he showed himself more openly and
m...
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YHWH RAISES UP THREE ADVERSARIES TO SOLOMON (1 KINGS 11:14).
At the commencement of his reign Solomon had had to deal with three
rebels against the throne, Adonijah, Abiathar and Joab and Shimei (1
Ki...
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CONTENTS: Solomon's heart turned. Chastened of God. Rise of Jeroboam.
Death of Solomon.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, Hadad, Pharaoh, Rezon, Jeroboam, Adoram,
Ahijah.
CONCLUSION: The way of sin is down h...
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1 Kings 11:1. _Solomon loved many strange women,_ of gentile nations,
and was connected with them. To this day thousands of women in India
are married to great men merely as a mark of honour, and they...
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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 11:1 Throughout chs. 1 Kings 1:1 there have
been hints that all is not well with Solomon’s heart. Now comes the
inevitable conclusion: Solomon’s sins have led him to apostasy.
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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 11:14 Two men are RAISED UP by God to oppose
Solomon: REZON from the north and HADAD from the south. Where the king
once had peace on all sides ...
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_HOMILETICS OF 1 Kings 11:14_
THE AGENTS OF DIVINE RETRIBUTION
I. ARE SECRETLY PREPARING WHEN LEAST SUSPECTED. Hadad and Rezon on the
frontier, and Jeroboam under the shadow of the throne, were plott...
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EXPOSITION
SOLOMON'S ADVERSARIES.—As the historian has collected together in 1
Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 7:1; 1 Kings 8:1, all the information he can convey
respecting the _temple, _and
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Chapter eleven.
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughters
of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and
Hittites (1 Kings 11:1);
Now turn back fo...
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1 Kings 5:4; 2 Chronicles 15:2; 2 Samuel 16:21; Deuteronomy 23:7;...
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All adversity — He was a secret enemy, all that time; and when
Solomon had forsaken God, he shewed himself openly. Beside — This
infelicity was added to the former; whilst Hadad molested him in the
so...