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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Kings 13:31

Lay my bones, etc.] To prevent them from sharing the dishonour which the man of God had said would befall the graves at Bethel: see 2 Kings 23:17; 2 Kings 23:18.

The moral conveyed by the fate of the prophet from Judah is that those who, like the old prophet of Bethel, are false to their own manifest duties (see on 1 Kings 13:11), are to be distrusted when they offer advice in matters of right and wrong.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Kings 13:31. _LAY MY BONES BESIDE HIS BONES_] This argues a strong conviction in the mind of the old prophet, that the deceased was a good and holy man of God; and he is willing to have place...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    LAY MY BONES: i.e. lay them not with the bones of those referred to in 1 Kings 13:2. Compare 2 Kings 23:18....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _lay my bones beside his bones_ Here the LXX. adds -in order that my bones may be preserved along with his bones." And Josephus expands this idea thus: "for he would not be outraged after his death if...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND IT CAME TO PASS, AFTER HE HAD BURIED HIM, THAT HE SPAKE TO HIS SONS, SAYING, WHEN I AM DEAD, THEN BURY ME IN THE SEPULCHRE WHEREIN THE MAN OF GOD IS BURIED; LAY MY BONES BESIDE HIS BONES:_ Bury...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְהִי֮ אַחֲרֵ֣י קָבְרֹ֣ו אֹתֹו֒ וַ יֹּ֤אמֶ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • 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

    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...

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

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Bones. Septuagint add, "that my bones may be saved along with his." The conduct and faith of this man would lead us to conclude that he had done wrong, without any malicious design, ver. 18. (Haydock...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • 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

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND IT CAME TO PASS, AFTER HE HAD BURIED HIM, THAT HE SPOKE TO HIS SONS, SAYING,.... He gave them the following charge: WHEN I AM DEAD, THEN BURY ME IN THE SEPULCHRE WHEREIN THE MAN OF GOD IS BURIED;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God [is] buried; lay my bones beside his bones: Ver....

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulcher wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones;...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PROPHET PUNISHED FOR HIS DISOBEDIENCE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    That I may be secured from that judgment threatened 1 KINGS 13:2....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Kings 13:31 after H310 buried H6912 (H8800) spoke H559 (H8799) sons H1121 saying H559 (H8800) dead...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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)...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ecclesiastes 8:10; Luke 16:22; Luke 16:23; Numbers 23:10; Psalms 26:9

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    When I am dead, &c — Tho' 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 cried a...

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