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Verse 1 Kings 13:19. _SO HE WENT BACK WITH HIM_] He permitted himself
to be imposed on; he might have thought, as he had accomplished every
purpose for which God sent him, and had actually begun to r...
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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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_So he went back with him_ The LXX., by reading slightly different
vowel points, renders -So he turned him back". Josephus thinks these
things were from God as in the case of the hardening of Pharaoh'...
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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;...
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_SO HE WENT BACK WITH HIM, AND DID EAT BREAD IN HIS HOUSE, AND DRANK
WATER._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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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וַ יָּ֣שָׁב אִתֹּ֗ו וַ יֹּ֥אכַל
לֶ֛חֶם בְּ
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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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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...
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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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(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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_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...
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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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SO HE WENT BACK WITH HIM,.... In which he sinned; for as he had most
certainly the command of God not to eat and drink in that place, he
ought to have had the countermand from the Lord, and not truste...
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So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank
water.
Ver. 19. _So he went back with him._] He was too light of belief, and
too easily entreated; his _male suada fames_ might pro...
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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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THE PROPHET PUNISHED FOR HIS DISOBEDIENCE...
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So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house and drank
water. He gave way to the deceiver without investigating his claims
thoroughly....
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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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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...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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1 Kings 13:19 back H7725 (H8799) ate H398 (H8799) bread H3899 house
H1004 drank H8354 (H8799) water...
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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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_He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art._
TRUTHS ABOUT CONSCIENCE
I. Conscience, of itself alone, is not a sufficient guide for life.
Every night, set in the front of the locomotive as it...
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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 13:9; 2 Peter 2:18; 2 Peter 2:19; Acts 4:19; Deuteronomy 13:1;