1 Kings 14:1-8 KJV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 14:1-6

How Jeroboam persisted in his contempt of God and religion we read in the close of the foregoing chapter. Here we are told how God proceeded in his controversy with him; for when God judges he will overcome, and sinners shall either bend or break before him. I. His child fell sick, 1 Kgs. 14:1. It is probable that he was his eldest son, and heir-apparent to the crown; for at his death all the kingdom went into mourning for him, 1 Kgs. 13:1-34 His dignity as a prince, his age as a young prince,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 14:7-20

When those that set up idols, and keep them up, go to enquire of the Lord, he determines to answer them, not according to the pretensions of their enquiry, but according to the multitude of their idols, Ezek. 14:4. So Jeroboam is answered here. I. The prophet anticipates the enquiry concerning the child, and foretels the ruin of Jeroboam's house for the wickedness of it. No one else durst have carried such a message: a servant would have smothered it, but his own wife cannot be suspected of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:1

At that time Abijah, the son of Jeroboam, fell sick. Being smitten of God with some disease, as a punishment of Jeroboam's sin; how long this was after the above things were done cannot be said. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:2

And Jeroboam said to his wife ,.... Who she was is not known: arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself ; put off her royal apparel, and clothe herself like a common person, mimic the dress and language of a country woman: that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam : by any that should see her on the road, or at the city she was to go to, or by the prophet to whom she would be sent: and get thee to Shiloh ; which, according to Bunting F7 Travels, &c.; p. 161. ,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:3

And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him ,.... It being usual to carry a present to a prophet when he was inquired of on any account, see 1 Samuel 9:7 and this being a plain present, and of such things as the country afforded, she might be taken for a plain countrywoman, and not for such a personage as she was: the ten loaves could not be large for a woman to carry, most probably made of wheat; the cracknels, according to the Greek version in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:4

And Jeroboam's wife did so, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Abijah ,.... Disguised herself, and took this long journey, and found the prophet's house; which she did partly in obedience to her husband, and partly from affection to her child: but Abijah could not see; her or anybody else that came into the room to him: for his eyes were set by reason of his age ; or "stood" fixed and immovable, as the eyes of blind men are; or the nerves and muscles of his eyes stood within... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:5

And the Lord said unto Abijah ,.... Either in a dream, or by an impulse upon his mind, before Jeroboam's wife came in: behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son, for he is sick ; to know whether he will recover or not: thus and thus shall thou say unto her ; as after expressed in some following verses: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself another woman ; to the people that let her in, and introduce her to the prophet, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:6

And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door ,.... Of the room where the prophet was: that he said, come in, thou wife of Jeroboam, why feignest thou thyself to be another ? which must greatly surprise and confound her, as well as lay open to her the folly of her and her husband to imagine that she could be secreted from God, and a prophet of his; or that a prophet could tell her what was future, and yet not know her that was present; and this might... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:7

Go tell Jeroboam ,.... Thy husband: thus saith the Lord God of Israel ; so he continued to be, though they had revolted from him: forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people ; the common people, from a low estate in which he was: and made thee prince over my people Israel ; so they were when he made them king over them; and there were some among them still that loved the Lord, served and feared him, of which the prophet himself, now speaking, was an instance. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:8

And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee ,.... Even ten parts out of twelve: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes ; who never was guilty of idolatry, but always constantly and cordially attended the pure worship of God, and was careful to do everything in that according to the will of God, whatever else he might be deficient in. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 14:1-6

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 14:7-20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:8

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