Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
1 Kings 14:9
Above all that were before thee] Solomon's idolatry was perhaps worse than Jeroboam's in being the worship of false gods, but it was at any rate not deliberately propagated among the people at large.
Above all that were before thee] Solomon's idolatry was perhaps worse than Jeroboam's in being the worship of false gods, but it was at any rate not deliberately propagated among the people at large.
ABOVE ALL THAT WERE BEFORE THEE - i. e., above all previous rulers of the people, whether Judges or kings. Hereto none of the rulers of Israel had set up the idolatrous worship of ephod, teraphim, and...
CHAPTER 14 THE PASSING OF JEROBOAM AND REHOBOAM _ 1. Sickness and death of Jeroboam's son (1 Kings 14:1)_ 2. Jeroboam's reign and death (1 Kings 14:19) 3. Rehoboam's apostasy, punishment and death...
VISIT OF JEROBOAM'S WIFE TO AHIJAH. Here we have an ancient story with Deuteronomic additions. According to the LXX (1 Kings 12:24 _g-m),_ Jeroboam sent his wife (Ano) to the prophet _before_ he becam...
ALL Not merely kings, but all other rulers. No anachronism. OTHER GODS. Jehovah does not recognize the calves as being what Jeroboam intended, mere political expedients. See note on 1 Kings 14:2....
_but hast done evil above all that were before thee_ This must refer not only to the kings who had preceded Jeroboam, but to the cases of idolatry in the earlier days, e.g. of the Judges. There had be...
B. THE MESSAGE OF GOD'S PROPHET 14:6-16 TRANSLATION (6) And it came to pass when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming at the door, that he said, Enter, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you pretending t...
_BUT HAST DONE EVIL ABOVE ALL THAT WERE BEFORE THEE: FOR THOU HAST GONE AND MADE THEE OTHER GODS, AND MOLTEN IMAGES, TO PROVOKE ME TO ANGER, AND HAST CAST ME BEHIND THY BACK:_ No JFB commentary on th...
GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 14 AHIJAH *PROPHESIES THE END OF JEROBOAM’S RULE OVER *ISRAEL V1 At that time, King Jeroboam’s son Abijah became ill. V2 Jeroboam said t...
BUT HAST DONE EVIL ABOVE ALL THAT WERE BEFORE THEE. — The language is strong, in the face of the many instances of the worship of false gods in the days of the Judges, and the recent apostasy of Solom...
וַ תָּ֣רַע לַ עֲשֹׂ֔ות מִ כֹּ֖ל אֲשֶׁר
DOOM OF THE HOUSE OF NEBAT 1 Kings 14:1 "Whom the gods love die young." -EPICTET. THE other story about Jeroboam is full of pathos; and though here, too, there are obvious signs that, in its presen...
THE BLIND PROPHET SEES JEROBOAM'S DOOM 1 Kings 14:1 How blind we become when we sin against our conscience! Each act of willful sin puts another shade on the window of the soul. “Their foolish heart...
In the story now recorded God is seen acting in judgment. The sickness of the son of Jeroboam was the first stroke of punishment and in connection therewith the prophet Ahijah uttered the doom of the...
But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and (i) molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back: (i) That is, two calv...
_Strange gods; that is, foreign gods: which expression destroys the opinion of those who imagine that Jeroboam designed by his calves to worship the Lord God of Israel. (Challoner) --- Back. Literally...
(6) And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee wit...
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...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 14, 15, AND 16. In spite of this testimony, Jeroboam perseveres in his sin. The only one of his sons in whom any piety is seen dies; and the judgment of God...
BUT HAST DONE EVIL ABOVE ALL THAT WERE BEFORE THEE,.... Not only above David, but above Saul, who never gave into idolatry, yea, even above Solomon, who, though he connived at idolatry, and might be g...
But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back: Ver. 9. _But hast done ev...
_But hast done evil above all that were before thee_ Above all the judges and former kings of my people, none of whom set up images, and persuaded the people to worship them. _For thou hast made thee...
1 Abijah being sicke, Ieroboam sendeth his wife disguised with Presents to the prophet Ahijah at Shiloh. 5 Ahijah forewarned by God, denounceth Gods iudgement. 17 Abijah dieth and is buried. 19 Nad...
but hast done evil above all that were before thee, namely, by making idolatrous worship a national institution; FOR THOU HAST GONE AND MADE THEE OTHER GODS AND MOLTEN IMAGES, the two calf figures, TO...
Ahijah's Prophecy against Jeroboam...
JEREBOAM WARNED THROUGH HIS SON'S DEATH Though God had sought to reach Jereboam's conscience by the message and actions of the man of God, this produced no effect. So God used another means, by the se...
7-20 Whether we keep an account of God's mercies to us or not, he does; and he will set them in order before us, if we are ungrateful, to our greater confusion. Ahijah foretells the speedy death of t...
ABOVE ALL THAT WERE BEFORE THEE; above all the former kings of my people, as Saul, and Solomon, and Rehoboam. OTHER GODS, AND MOLTEN IMAGES,_ or other gods_, to wit, (for so and oft signifies among th...
1 Kings 14:9 done H6213 (H8800) evil H7489 (H8686) before H6440 gone H3212 (H8799) made H6213 ...
JEROBOAM'S WIFE APPROACHES AHIJAH THE PROPHET CONCERNING THE SICKNESS OF THEIR SON (1 KINGS 14:1). The life story of Jeroboam concludes with a quite remarkable story. It would appear that there was on...
CONTENTS: Prophecy against Jeroboam and partial fulfillment. Judah's apostacy under Rehoboam and his death. CHARACTERS: God, Ahijah, Jeroboam, Rehoboam, Shishak, wife and son of Jeroboam. CONCLUSION:...
1 Kings 14:2. _Ahijah the prophet;_ an illustrious man of God, now full of days, and full of grace. 1 Kings 14:3. _Ten loaves._ A rustic present, that it might not excite suspicion of a royal visit. I...
_David kept my commandments _. .. _ thou hast gone and made thee other gods._ SERVITUDE OR SERVICE-WHICH? The people of God had left their God, and He had left them, so that Shishak, the King of Egyp...
_At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick._ A GOOD BOY AND A BAD FAMILY One beautiful flower in a desert; one lovely rose amongst thorns; one fruitful branch on a corrupt tree. We are going...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 14:1__ Jeroboam had been promised a dynasty (“house”) just like David’s (1 Kings 11:38). His desire to have a temple (“house”) just like David’s, however, led him into
THE REIGNS OF JEROBOAM AND REHOBOAM CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 14:1. ABIJAH, THE SON OF JEROBOAM—Natural heir to the kingdom. His sickness, therefore, seemed to imperil the continuance...
EXPOSITION THE DEATH OF JEROBOAM'S SON.—The protest of the prophet of Judah, the signs which supported it, and above all the solemn visitation, with its strange portents, which straightway followed it...
So at that time his son Abijah became sick. And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that they won't know you as the wife of Jeroboam; and go to Shiloh: for there is a...
1 Corinthians 10:22; 1 Kings 12:28; 1 Kings 13:33; 1 Kings 13:34;...
Above all — Above all the former kings of my people, as Saul, and Solomon, and Rehoboam. Images — Namely the golden calves: not as if they thought them to be other gods in a proper sense; for it is ap...