And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, (a) and disguise
thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get
thee to Shiloh: behold, there [is] Ahijah the prophet, which told me
that [I should be] king over this people.
(a) His own conscience bore witness to him that the... [ Continue Reading ]
And take with (b) thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of
honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the
child.
(b) According to the custom when they went to ask counsel of prophets,
(1 Samuel 9:7).... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to
ask a thing of thee for her son; for he [is] sick: thus and thus shalt
thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall
feign herself [to be] (c) another [woman].
(c) Than the wife of Jeroboam.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 (d) wife of Jeroboam; why
feignest thou thyself [to be] another? for I [am] sent to thee [with]
heavy [tidings].
(d) For God often discloses to his own the craft and subtilty of the
wic... [ Continue Reading ]
Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I
exalted (e) thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my
people Israel,
(e) Who was but a servant.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 calves.... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and
will cut off from Jeroboam him that (g) pisseth against the wall,
[and] him that (h) is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away
the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till
it be all gone.
(g) Every... [ Continue Reading ]
Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him
that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: (i) for the
LORD hath spoken [it].
(i) They will lack the honour of burial in token of God's curse.... [ Continue Reading ]
And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of
Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found (k)
[some] good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of
Jeroboam.
(k) In the midst of the wicked, God has some on whom he bestows his
mercies.... [ Continue Reading ]
Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut
off the house of Jeroboam that day: (l) but what? even now.
(l) The Lord will begin to destroy it out of hand.... [ Continue Reading ]
For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and
he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their
fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the (m) river, because they
have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
(m) Meaning the Euphrates.... [ Continue Reading ]
And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did
sin, and who (n) made Israel to sin.
(n) The people will not be excused when they do evil at the
commandment of their governors.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the days which Jeroboam reigned [were] two and twenty years: and
he (o) slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
(o) The Lord smote him and he died, (2 Chronicles 13:20).... [ Continue Reading ]
And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam [was] forty
and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen (p)
years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the
tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name [was]
Naamah an Ammonites... [ Continue Reading ]
And there were also sodomites in the (q) land: [and] they did
according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast
out before the children of Israel.
(q) Where idolatry reigns, all horrible vices are committed, till at
length God's just judgment destroys them completely.... [ Continue Reading ]
Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, [are] they
not written in (r) the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
(r) Which were called the books of Shemaiah and Iddo the prophets, (2
Chronicles 12:15).... [ Continue Reading ]
And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam (s) all [their] days.
(s) That is, all the days of Rehoboam's life.... [ Continue Reading ]
And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers
in the city of David. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an (t)
Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
(t) Whose idolatry Rehoboam her son followed.... [ Continue Reading ]