1 Kings 15:1
ABIJAM. Abijah.... [ Continue Reading ]
ABIJAM. Abijah.... [ Continue Reading ]
THREE YEARS. Not full years, for he died in the twentieth year of Jeroboam (1 Kings 15:9). MOTHER'S. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Genus) for ancestor. Here. grandmother. Maachah, or Michaiah (2 Chronicles 13:2). Abishalom. Absalom (2 Chronicles 11:21).... [ Continue Reading ]
FATHER. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Genus), App-6, for ancestor.... [ Continue Reading ]
LAMP. See note on 1 Kings 11:36. Peculiarly used of David.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND, &C. This is repeated (from 1 Kings 14:30) to complete Structure above.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE REST. See 2 Chronicles 13:3, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS. See note on 1 Kings 14:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
RIGHT. Therefore his days "long in the land" (1 Kings 15:23). Contemporary with seven Israelite kings. IDOLS. filthy idols.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOT REMOVED: not till the reign of Hezekiah (1 Kings 22:43; 2 Kings 12:3; 2 Kings 18:4).... [ Continue Reading ]
THINGS. DEDICATED. holy things of his father. See note on Exodus 3:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
WAR. Only border fighting. No campaign. Compare 1 Kings 15:32.... [ Continue Reading ]
RAMAH. the modern _er Ram,_ five miles north of Jerusalem, which it was intended to menace. See 2 Chronicles 16:1. GO OUT OR COME IN. But in vain. See 1Ki 12:27. 1 Kings 15:9, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "among the".... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE IS. Supply Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6). [Let there be.] LEAGUE. covenant. AND. Supply [as] instead of "and", BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOSTS. forces. IJON, &C. All in the neighbourhood of Gennesaret.... [ Continue Reading ]
DWELT IN. Septuagint and Vulg, read "returned to". See note on 1 Kings 14:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE REST. Compare 2 Chronicles 14:9; 2 Chronicles 15:10. ARE THEY NOT. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
FATHER. forefather. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Species).... [ Continue Reading ]
EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a_. App-44. SIN. Same as "evil", above. MADE ISRAEL TO SIN. See note on 1 Kings 14:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT BREATHED. Hebrew. _neshamah._ App-16. THE SAYING. Compare 1 Kings 14:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
WAR. Only border fighting (compare verses: 1 Kings 15:16 1 Kings 15:32, 2 Chronicles 14:1; 2 Chronicles 15:19); no actual campaign, as in 2 Chronicles 16:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN TIRZAH. See notes on 1 Kings 14:17 and 1 Kings 15:21. TWENTY AND FOUR YEARS. Began in the third year of Asa. Therefore he died in the twenty-sixth year of Asa (1 Kings 16:8). Yet in the thirty-sixth year Baasha came and made war against Judah (2 Chronicles 16:1). This would be nine or ten years... [ Continue Reading ]