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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 11:32

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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Kings 11:14-40

HOMILETICS OF 1 Kings 11:14-40THE AGENTS OF DIVINE RETRIBUTIONI. Are secretly preparing when least suspected. Hadad and Rezon on the frontier, and Jeroboam under the shadow of the throne, were plotting mischief for the empire. In a time of unexampled peace and security, the seeds of rebellion were being sown. Things are not always what they seem. The loveliest flower may hide within its cup the deadliest poison. The mountain draped with richest verdure, and musical with forest songs, may simmer... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 11:1-43

Chapter 11Chapter eleven.But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughters of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites ( 1 Kings 11:1 );Now turn back for a moment to Deuteronomy chapter seventeen, beginning with verse fourteen. Here under the law four hundred years before the time of David, before the time of Solomon, God foresaw that the day would come when the people would demand a king. And so even in the law, God gave certain... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 11:1-43

1 Kings 11:1 . Solomon loved many strange women, of gentile nations, and was connected with them. To this day thousands of women in India are married to great men merely as a mark of honour, and they die at home without ever seeing their unlawful husbands. 1 Kings 11:3 . Seven hundred wives. In the Canticle or Song of Solomon, he says that he had sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number, who were employed as maids and servants in his various palaces. Hence we ought... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Kings 11:31-33

1 Kings 11:31-33Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon.The purpose of God“Nothing,” we are told, “succeeds like success.” It is the sign of a man of transcendent genius and power that he is able to carry through all his projects, and bring his schemes to a successful issue. And yet God seems to fail. What could be a greater failure than this world, if it was made by a beneficent God, says the average observer? Why are evil, misfortune, pain,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 11:32

1 Kings 11:32 (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:) Ver. 32. For my servant David’s sake.] See on 1 Kings 11:13 . read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 1 Kings 11:32

he shall: 1 Kings 12:20 for Jerusalem's sake: 1 Kings 11:13 Reciprocal: 1 Kings 12:27 - go up 1 Kings 15:4 - for David's 2 Kings 17:18 - the tribe 2 Chronicles 33:7 - which I have Psalms 89:33 - Nevertheless Isaiah 7:2 - the house read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 11:14-40

SOLOMON’S ADVERSARIES, 1 Kings 11:14-40. Although Jehovah’s love and promise to David secured to Solomon for life the unity of his vast realm, yet would he not permit the idolatrous king, who turned so vilely from the God of his father, to hold an undisturbed career till the end of life, but inflicted penal judgment upon him by raising up three adversaries, Hadad, Rezon, and Jeroboam, who during his later years gave him great trouble by disturbing the peace of his kingdom, and giving him sad... read more