Geneva Study Bible Commentary
1 Kings 14:20
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).
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).
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...
TWO AND TWENTY YEARS. In 1 Kings 15:25 Nadab reigned two years, and began in the second year of Asa, which was the twenty-first of Jeroboam, so that Nadab's two years fall within the time of his fathe...
_two and twenty years_ So that Jeroboam's death occurred in the second year of the reign of Asa, king of Judah. Cf. 1 Kings 15:9; 1 Kings 15:25. It appears from 2 Chronicles 13:20 to have been by some...
D. CONCLUDING NOTE ON THE REIGN OF JEROBOAM 14:19-20 TRANSLATION (19) And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam how he fought and how he reigned, behold they are written in the book of the chronicles of...
_AND THE DAYS WHICH JEROBOAM REIGNED WERE TWO AND TWENTY YEARS: AND HE SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS, AND NADAB HIS SON REIGNED IN HIS STEAD._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
THE SINS OF JEROBOAM AND REHOBOAM AND THEIR PUNISHMENT 2. Shiloh] The modern Seilûn, N. of Bethel and E. of the road leading from Bethel to Shechem (Judges 21:19)....
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...
וְ הַ יָּמִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר מָלַ֣ךְ יָרָבְעָ֔ם עֶש
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...
SOUTH RIVALS WORTH IN SINNING 1 Kings 14:17 Rehoboam's mother's name signifies _beauty_, and she may have been attractive in her person; but we are twice told that she was an Ammonitess, as if to emp...
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...
(19) And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. (20) And the days which Jeroboam reigned we...
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...
AND THE DAYS WHICH JEROBOAM REIGNED WERE TWENTY TWO YEARS,.... So that he outlived Rehoboam five years, and lived to the second year of the reign of his grandson Asa: AND HE SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS; o...
And the days which Jeroboam reigned [were] two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead. Ver. 20. _And he slept with his fathers._] Heb., He lay down. ...
_Jeroboam reigned two and twenty years_ So he lived till the second year of Asa, chap. 15. _He slept with his fathers_ He died as his fathers did, or perhaps the expression also implies, that he was b...
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...
And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years. And he slept with his fathers, having been struck with a severe and painful illness; AND NADAB, HIS SON, REIGNED IN HIS STEAD. Jeroboam e...
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...
SLEPT: _ Heb._ lay down...
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...
So he lived till Asa's second year, 1 KINGS 15:25. HE SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS; either, first, He was buried with his ancestors. But their sepulchre seems to be too mean and improper for a great king; a...
1 Kings 14:20 period H3117 Jeroboam H3379 reigned H4427 (H8804) twenty-two H6242 H8147 years H8141 rested H7901 ...
SUMMARY OF THE ACTS OF JEROBOAM, AND OF HIS REIGN AND DEATH (1 KINGS 14:19). We have here the usual stereotyped summary which, with variations, will sum up of the reign of each king, as it did the rei...
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...
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 Kings 11:43; 1 Kings 15:25; 1 Kings 2:10; Job 14:12; Psalms 3:5;...