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Verse 1 Kings 13:2. _HE CRIED AGAINST THE ALTAR_] He denounced the
destruction of this idolatrous system.
_A CHILD SHALL BE BORN - JOSIAH BY NAME_] This is one of the most
remarkable and most singul...
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A CHILD SHALL BE BORN ... JOSIAH BY NAME - Divine predictions so
seldom descend to such particularity as this, that doubts are
entertained, even by orthodox theologians, with respect to the actual
men...
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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 against the altar in the word of the Lord_ The Hebrew is the
same as in the preceding verse. Render therefore (with R.V.) -by the
word." The meaning is that both the journey from Judah and t...
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THERE CAME A MAN OF GOD— Commentators are not agreed who this
prophet was, neither is there any foundation for so much as a
conjecture. The prophesy, however, is one of the most remarkable that
we hav...
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I. DENUNCIATION OF JEROBOAM 13:1-32
Chapter 13 narrates a thought-provoking episode from the early history
of the Northern Kingdom. The historical message of the chapter is
clear. Because Jeroboam ha...
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_AND HE CRIED AGAINST THE ALTAR IN THE WORD OF THE LORD, AND SAID, O
ALTAR, ALTAR, THUS SAITH THE LORD; BEHOLD, A CHILD SHALL BE BORN UNTO
THE HOUSE OF DAVID, JOSIAH BY NAME; AND UPON THEE SHALL HE OF...
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13:2 sacrifice (a-39) Or 'slay,' same as Deuteronomy 12:15 ....
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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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THUS SAITH THE LORD. — This is one of those rather unfrequent
prophecies found in Holy Scripture, which, not content to foreshadow
the future in general outline, descend to striking particularity of
d...
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וַ יִּקְרָ֤א עַל ־הַ מִּזְבֵּ֨חַ֙ בִּ
דְבַ֣ר
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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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JUDGMENT UPON WORTHLESS WORSHIP
1 Kings 13:1
What a noble name for anyone to bear- _a man of God!_ Yet we all might
so bear the impress of God in our character that those who come in
contact with us...
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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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Altar, in which the prodigy was to take place, for the instruction of
all. (Menochius) --- Name: 340 (Calmet) or 350 years after. (Salien)
--- This prediction proves the truth of the religion; for, th...
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(2) And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said,
O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born
unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he...
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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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AND HE CRIED AGAINST THE ALTAR IN THE WORD OF THE LORD,.... By his
order and command:
AND SAID, O ALTAR, ALTAR; addressing himself not to Jeroboam, but the
altar, thereby reproving his stupidity, the...
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And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O
altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto
the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he off...
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_He cried against the altar_ And consequently against all the worship
performed at it. _O altar, altar_ He directs his speech against the
altar, because the following signs were to be wrought upon it....
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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 he, the prophet, CRIED AGAINST THE ALTAR IN THE WORD OF THE LORD,
his addressing the altar making his words all the more significant and
emphatic, AND SAID, O ALTAR, ALTAR, THUS SAITH THE LORD: BE...
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JEROBOAM REPROVED FOR HIS SIN...
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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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1-10 In threatening the altar, the prophet threatens the founder and
worshippers. Idolatrous worship will not continue, but the word of the
Lord will endure for ever. The prediction plainly declared...
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HE CRIED AGAINST THE ALTAR; and consequently, against all that
worship, which is oft signified by the name of the _altar_. See Isaiah
19:19 1 Corinthians 9:13 Hebrews 7:13,...
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1 Kings 13:2 out H7121 (H8799) altar H4196 word H1697 LORD H3068 said
H559 (H8799) altar H4196 altar...
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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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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 13:2 The prophetic words about the future
king JOSIAH point forward to a time when all the northern Israelite
dynasties will have come to an end. Only the HOUSE OF DAVID will
r...
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THE MYSTERIOUS PROPHET OF JUDAH
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1 Kings 13:1. THERE CAME A MAN OF GOD: an unknown prophet. Josephus
suggests _Jadon_, confounding him with Iddo (2 Chronicles 13:22),...
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EXPOSITION
THE TESTIMONY OF GOD AGAINST THE CALF WORSHIP.—We have in this
chapter, which some commentators consider to be derived from a
different source from the narratives which precede and follow i...
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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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2 Chronicles 34:1; 2 Chronicles 34:4; 2 Kings 22:1; 2 Kings 22:2;...
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The altar — And consequently, against all that worship. O altar —
He directs his speech to the altar, because the following signs were
wrought upon it. Josiah — Which being done above three hundred ye...