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Verse 1 Kings 13:31. _LAY MY BONES BESIDE HIS BONES_] This argues a
strong conviction in the mind of the old prophet, that the deceased
was a good and holy man of God; and he is willing to have place...
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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...
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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...
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LAY MY BONES: i.e. lay them not with the bones of those referred to in
1 Kings 13:2. Compare 2 Kings 23:18....
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_lay my bones beside his bones_ Here the LXX. adds -in order that my
bones may be preserved along with his bones." And Josephus expands
this idea thus: "for he would not be outraged after his death if...
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D. THE LAMENTATION FOR THE MAN OF GOD 13:27-32
TRANSLATION
(27) Then he spoke unto his sons, saying, saddle for me the donkey,
and they saddled it. (28) And he went and found his carcass cast in
the...
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_AND IT CAME TO PASS, AFTER HE HAD BURIED HIM, THAT HE SPAKE TO HIS
SONS, SAYING, WHEN I AM DEAD, THEN BURY ME IN THE SEPULCHRE WHEREIN
THE MAN OF GOD IS BURIED; LAY MY BONES BESIDE HIS BONES:_
Bury...
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LAY MY BONES, etc.] To prevent them from sharing the dishonour which
the man of God had said would befall the graves at Bethel: see 2 Kings
23:17; 2 Kings 23:18.
The moral conveyed by the fate of the...
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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...
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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...
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(30-32) THEY MOURNED. — The mourning of the old prophet, and the
burial of the body in his own sepulchre, probably show some touch of
remorse and personal compassion for the victim of his treacherous...
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וַ יְהִי֮ אַחֲרֵ֣י קָבְרֹ֣ו אֹתֹו֒ וַ
יֹּ֤אמֶ
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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_Bones. Septuagint add, "that my bones may be saved along with his."
The conduct and faith of this man would lead us to conclude that he
had done wrong, without any malicious design, ver. 18. (Haydock...
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(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...
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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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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...
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AND IT CAME TO PASS, AFTER HE HAD BURIED HIM, THAT HE SPOKE TO HIS
SONS, SAYING,.... He gave them the following charge:
WHEN I AM DEAD, THEN BURY ME IN THE SEPULCHRE WHEREIN THE MAN OF GOD
IS BURIED;...
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And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his
sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein
the man of God [is] buried; lay my bones beside his bones:
Ver....
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1 Kin. 13:31, 32. The old prophet orders that his corpse might be laid
in the sepulcher of the man of God, and his bones by that prophet's
bones, that so they might not be disturbed, and burnt on the...
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_When I am dead_, &c. Though he was a lying prophet, yet he desired to
die the death of a true prophet. Gather not my soul with the sinners
of Beth-el, but with this man of God: because, _what he crie...
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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...
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And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his
sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulcher wherein
the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones;...
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THE PROPHET PUNISHED FOR HIS DISOBEDIENCE...
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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...
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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...
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That I may be secured from that judgment threatened 1 KINGS 13:2....
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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...
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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...
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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
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_And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard
thereof._
ON THE CHARACTER OF THE OLD PROPHET OF BETHEL
The most careful review of this man’s conduct does not make it easy
to comprehen...
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_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...
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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
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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Ecclesiastes 8:10; Luke 16:22; Luke 16:23; Numbers 23:10; Psalms 26:9
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When I am dead, &c — Tho' he was a lying prophet, yet he desired to
die the death of a true prophet. Gather not my Soul with the sinners
of Beth — el, but with this man of God: Because what he cried
a...