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Verse 1 Kings 13:32. _IN THE CITIES OF SAMARIA_] It is most certain
that Samaria, or as it is called in Hebrew _Shomeron_, was not built
at this time. We are expressly told that Omri, king of Israel,...
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AGAINST ALL THE HOUSES OF THE HIGH PLACES - i. e., more than the two
high places at Dan and Bethel. There were many lesser high places in
the land, several of which would be likely to be in Israel 1 K...
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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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HE CRIED. Compare 1 Kings 13:2....
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_high places which_are _in the cities of Samaria_ On the building of
Samaria, see 1 Kings 16:24. The occurrence of these words in the
narrative seems clear evidence that the story in its present form...
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IN THE CITIES OF SAMARIA— How can they be called the cities of
Samaria, when Samaria itself was not now built; nor had the separate
kingdom of Jeroboam yet obtained that name? It is plain from hence,...
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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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_FOR THE SAYING WHICH HE CRIED BY THE WORD OF THE LORD AGAINST THE
ALTAR IN BETHEL, AND AGAINST ALL THE HOUSES OF THE HIGH PLACES WHICH
ARE IN THE CITIES OF SAMARIA, SHALL SURELY COME TO PASS._
No JF...
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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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כִּי֩ הָיֹ֨ה יִהְיֶ֜ה הַ דָּבָ֗ר
אֲשֶׁ֤ר קָרָ
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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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BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS
1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
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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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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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_Samaria. The city was built by Amri, fifty years after the death of
Jeroboam, chap. xvi. 24. But the sacred writer speaks of places by the
names which they bore in his time. (Calmet) --- If this man...
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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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FOR THE SAYING WHICH HE CRIED BY THE WORD OF THE LORD AGAINST THE
ALTAR IN BETHEL,.... That the priests should be offered on it, and
men's bones be burnt upon it; for as for its being rent, and the as...
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For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the
altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which
[are] in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
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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for the saying which he cried by the word of the Lord against the
altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which
are in the cities of Samaria, the altars and buildings used for i...
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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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OF SAMARIA, i.e. of the kingdom of Samaria, as it was called, though
not when this fact was done, yet before these books were written.
Samaria was properly the name of one city, 1 KINGS 20:1; but from...
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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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“ For the saying which he cried by the word of YHWH against the
altar in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the high places which
are in the cities of Samaria, will surely come about.”.
And he con...
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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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1 Kings 12:29; 1 Kings 12:31; 1 Kings 13:2; 1 Kings 16:24;...
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Samaria — That is, of the kingdom of Samaria; as it was called,
though not when this fact was done, yet before these books were
written. Samaria was properly this name of one city, 1 Kings 21:1, but
f...