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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

1 Kings 12:19

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 God's counsel, but to gratify their own passions.

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See also 1 Kings 12:19 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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'...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    UNTO THIS DAY. Compare 1 Kings 8:8. This was written certainly before the removal of Israel in 2 Kings 17....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    12:19 against (a-4) Or 'fell away from.' so 2 Chronicles 10:19 ; 2 Chronicles 21:8 ,2 Chronicles 21:10...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    UNTO THIS DAY. — The phrase argues the incorporation into the narrative of an older document....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּפְשְׁע֤וּ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ בְּ בֵ֣ית דָּוִ֔ד...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    So Israel rebelled against the house (g) of David unto this day. (g) By the just judgment of God for Solomon's sins....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    So Israel rebelled against, and thus seceded from, THE HOUSE OF DAVID UNTO THIS DAY, the time when this account was written....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JEROBOAM KING OVER ISRAEL...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    REBELLED: Or, fell away...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Kings 12:19 Israel H3478 rebellion H6586 (H8799) house H1004 David H1732 day H3117 Israel -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 10:19; 2 Chronicles 10:19; 2 Chronicles 13:17; 2 Chronicles 13:5;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Rebelled — Their revolt was sinful, as they did not this in compliance with God's counsel, but to gratify their own passions....

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