1 Kings 14:15-16

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 14:15-16

1 Kings 14:15-16. For the Lord shall smite Israel For consenting to that idolatrous worship which Jeroboam set up. As a reed is shaken in the water Hither and thither, with every wind. So shall the kingdom and people of Israel be always in an unquiet and unsettled state, tossed to and fro by foreign invasions and civil wars; by opposite kings and factions, and by the dissensions of the people. The emblem expresses very forcibly the ease with which God could punish the Israelites and... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:1-20

Jeroboam’s punishment (13:1-14:20)God soon showed that this new form of religion was totally unacceptable to him. A prophet from Judah came to Bethel and, by bold words and dramatic actions, condemned both the people and the king (13:1-10).However, there was another prophet, a much older man, who lived in Bethel and had apparently not spoken out against Jeroboam’s wrongdoing. The old prophet seems to have been jealous of the prophet from Judah, and decided to tempt him to disobey God’s command.... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Kings 14:15

smite Israel, [shaking him] as a reed is shaken, &c. The Figure of speech Ellipsis ( App-6 ) to be thus supplied. this good land. Occurs only here and Joshua 23:13 , Joshua 23:15 . the river: i.e. the Euphrates. groves = ' A sherim. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Kings 14:16

made Israel to sin. The first of twenty-one occurrences in these two books: 1 Kings 14:16 ; 1 Kings 15:26 , 1Ki 15:30 , 1 Kings 15:34 ; 1 Kings 16:19 , 1Ki 16:26 ; 1 Kings 21:22 ; 1 Kings 22:52 . 2Ki 3:3 ; 2 Kings 10:29 , 2 Kings 10:31 ; 2Ki 13:2 , 2 Kings 13:6 , 2 Kings 13:11 ; 2Ki 14:24 ; 2 Kings 15:9 , 2 Kings 15:18 , 2Ki 15:24 , 2 Kings 15:28 ; 2 Kings 16:13 ; 2Ki 17:21 ; 2 Kings 23:15 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Kings 14:15

PROPHECIES OF THE REMOVAL OF ISRAEL FROM PALESTINE; THEIR DEPORTION BEYOND THE EUPHRATES; AND OF THEIR EVENTUAL JUDICIAL HARDENING"For Jehovah will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking Jehovah to anger. And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he hath sinned, and wherewith he hath made Israel to... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 14:15

1 Kings 14:15. The river— The river Euphrates. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Kings 14:1-18

The prophecy of judgment on Jeroboam’s dynasty 14:1-18Whereas the prophecy of the young prophet from Judah dealt with Jeroboam’s religious cult, this one predicted the fate of the king’s descendants. Compare Samuel’s prediction concerning unfaithful Saul’s descendants (1 Samuel 13).Jeroboam probably sent his wife to see Ahijah because that prophet had previously given a favorable prophecy to him (1 Kings 11:29-39). He probably hoped his gift (1 Kings 14:3) would win the prophet’s favor as... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 14:1-31

The Sins of Jeroboam and Rehoboam and their Punishment2. Shiloh] The modern Seilûn, N. of Bethel and E. of the road leading from Bethel to Shechem (Judges 21:19). 3. Take with thee] The gift proffered by the queen was a small one to suit her disguise: contrast 2 Kings 5:5. Cruse] a flask or bottle (and so in 1 Kings 17:12). 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... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Kings 14:15

(15) And he shall root up Israel.—The first prophecy of future captivity, and that “beyond the river” (Euphrates), is here pronounced against the kingdom of Israel, on account of their share in the idolatry of Jeroboam, and in the worse abominations of the “groves.” Of all such utterances we must remember the express declaration of Jeremiah 18:7-8 : “At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation . . . to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy; if that nation . . . turn from their evil,... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:1-20

DOOM OF THE HOUSE OF NEBAT1 Kings 14:1-20"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 present form, it could hardly have come from a contemporary source, it doubtless records a historic tradition. It is missing in the Septuagint, though in some copies the blank is supplied from Aquila’s version.Jeroboam was living with his queen at Tirzah when as a judgment on him for his neglect of the... read more

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