In threatening the altar, the prophet threatens the founder and worshippers. Oct 29, 2017 the building of the temple is a major turning point in the history and religion of israel. Not only is there no break between them the separation at 1 kings 22. As weve been reading 1 kings, each king is qualified by when he began to reign, for how long, from what city, and to what degree he followed or rejected gods ways. Christian readers today usually classify 1 2 kings as books of old testament history, reflecting the fact that they include a good deal of history and read like history accounts. Bob utley, retired professor of hermeneutics biblical interpretation study guide commentary series old testament, vol. By analyzing the narratives in 1 kings and 2 kings 23, this article.
Devries, 1 kings, word biblical commentary, 12 nashville. Commentaries for 1 kings chapter jeroboams sin reproved. Even though we have had a strong beginning in our walk with god, we must not assume that well automatically continue on the path god. We should not compromise our love for god by engaging in any form of. Chrysostom said that elijah learned compassion in the house of the widow so he could be sent to his own people. Obadiah went to great pains to convince elijah that he was a believer in yahweh. This was literally and precisely fulfilled 330 years later. Years later, in 2001, the commentary on 1 kings was published.
He must have felt this explanation was necessary because of his position in ahabs cabinet 1 kings 18. There is mention of such a construction as early as 2 samuel 7 and it is on deck, as it were, since that point in the story of israels kings see also 1 kings 3. We should love one another as christ has loved us, demonstrating to unbelievers that jesus is who he claimed to bethe godman. Bartsch, wordexplain 4 b5 the reforming reign of king asa over judah 15. Study commentary on 1 kings christian study library. But he lied unto him and yet, probably, not with any evil design, but out of curiosity, to know from his own mouth the truth and all the particulars of the message which he had just delivered to jeroboam. See appendix 1 at the end of these notes for a chart of the dates of the rulers of judah and israel. Like the books of 1 and 2 samuel, 1 and 2 kings originally were one book. Book of first kings overview insight for living ministries.
In samuel 7, continue reading commentary on 1 kings 5. He was chastised for his recent sins, and felt the effects of his former toils and hardships. The old prophets conduct proves that he was not really a godly man. But that he was not a truly and uniformly good and pious man is certain, because we here find him guilty of a downright lie, 1 kings. When the change took place under jeroboam, he preferred his ease and interest to his religion. The major lesson that kings teaches its readers is that failure to honor the revealed will of god results in ruin and destruction.
The king james version of the holy bible bible study guide. Where this prophet was eating and drinking against gods express charge, there doth he hear his doom denounced by the same mouth that had seduced him. Counting jehoshaphat, seven of the last sixteen kings of judah did what is right in the eyes of the lord 2kings 12. Nobody remembers who named the book, but for me it was the beginning of three decades of intensive bible study as i wrote additional commentaries, all of them falling under the new be series. Adam clarkes bible commentary 1 kings 1 kings 12 1 kings 14 help fb twitter gr videos gr forums gr youtube. Posted on jan 10, 2002 by beyond today editor estimated reading time. Primarily the book of 1 kings is a history book of the nation of israel. It includes the sevenvolume seventhday adventist bible commentary, the twovolume seventhday adventist encyclopedia, as well as the single volumes seventhday adventist bible dictionary, seventhday. Now of course you notice that this man of god showed up in bethel. Constable taught at dallas theological seminary for 45 years, and served as the chairman of its bible exposition department for years. King david proposed to build a temple for the lord hebrew. In this chapter is an account of a man of god being sent to exclaim against jeroboams altar, and threaten its destruction, of which he gave a sign, which was accomplished, and with it the withering of the king s hand, which was healed upon the prophets prayer for him, 1 kings. Blue letter bible study tools make reading, searching and studying the bible easy and rewarding.
Matthew henrys concise commentary on the bible by matthew henry. His biblical commentary occurred primarily in the context of theological discussion when biblical studies was increasingly establishing itself as an autonomous. Use notes and commentary below to help you as you read and study 1 kings 1 11. The author of 2 kings is unknown but writes about the events in both of these kingdoms. There dwelt an old prophet in bethel one to whom and by whom god did sometimes reveal his will, as is manifest from 1 kings. These are the kings for both the united kingdom and later the divided kingdom. Romans 6 423 dying to live romans 7 425 christians and the law.
The interdict was a matter which came home to the bethelites, as an affront to the whole community. He obviously struggled with whether he could believe elijah when the prophet told him he would speak to ahab 1 kings 18. Why the old prophet deceived the man of god the text does not state. This chapter gives an account of the wicked reign of jehoahaz son of jehu king of israel, and of the low estate he was brought into by the syrians, 2 kings. And therefore our translation is better, as is manifest from 1 kings. Mordechai cogan and hayim tadmor 1 kings, 2 kings anchor yale bible commentaries, 2001, 1988. A commentary 1964, considers 1 kings an instance of the prophetic midrash, which, in spite of the nucleus of fact, is not based on. It took an additional thirteen years to build solomons palace see 1 king. He took a very bad method to bring the good prophet back.
It focuses on the kings of israel for the first part of the book. Constable, provide commentary on all 66 books of the bible and contain over 12,000 pages of material in pdf format. To get rid of him, jeroboam tried force, but the lord was with the young prophet. The first book of the kings commentary by robert jamieson chapter 1ki. And behold, a man of god went from judah to bethel by the word of the lord, and jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. The seventhday adventist commentary reference series is a set of volumes produced primarily by seventhday adventist scholars, and designed for both scholarly and church member use. This document has been generated from xsl extensible stylesheet language source with renderx xep formatter, version 3. In the close of the foregoing chapter we left jeroboam attending his altar at bethel, and there we find him in the beginning of this, when he received a testimony from god against his idolatry and apostasy. Yahweh did not just intervene at critical times in the affairs of people, but was now accessible to believers in the ordinary affairs of life 1 kings 17. Jeroboam was upset that the young prophet was there to cause him trouble. First and second kings were originally one book, called in the hebrew text, kings, from the first word in 1. We should not compromise our love for god by engaging in any form of immorality. The international bible lesson uniform sunday school lessons series for sunday, july 15, 2012, is from 1 kings 3. The other two accounts both focus on elijahs acolyte, elisha raising the shunammites son 2 kings 4.
That the two books are really one is proved by the strongest internal evidence. The greek translation of the old testament, the septuagint lxx, divided the book in two and this was followed by the latin vulgate version and english translations. David guzik commentary on 1 kings describes how a prophet from judah proclaims destruction of the altar in bethel, but jeroboam does not repent. The role of women in the elijahelisha narrative, journal for the evangelical study of the old testament 3. It records the building and dedication of israels first temple, which lasted nearly four. Thomas constable, one of over 110 bible commentaries freely available, this commentary provides notes on all 66 books of.
Pdf the prophetic book of amos is widely studied yet one question remains. Questions for discussion and thinking further follow the versebyverse. The disobedient prophet is slain, jeroboams obstinacy. When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, i will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out of your. God warns all whom he employs, strictly to observe their orders. Pdf revisiting karl barthd exegesis of 1 kings david. Thiele, the mysterious numbers of the hebrew kings. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too. The king james version of the holy bible by anonymous. Just as the widow in 1 kings 17 declares that her sons healing proves to her the veracity 40 william b. Study guide for i kings growing christians ministries. And it came to pass after many days that the word of the lord came to elijah, in the third year, saying, go, present yourself to ahab, and i will send rain on the earth. In the case of all the kings of the northern kingdom of israel, every one of them is described as doing evil in the sight of the lord, walking in the sins of their fathers.
Montgomery, a critical and exegetical commentary on the books of kings, pp. Cogan and tadmor cowrote the volume on 2 kings in 1988. Fullilove, kings, a biblicaltheological introduction to the. The phrase he did evil in the sight of the lord, and walked in the way of jeroboam, and in his sin by which he had made israel sin was used of many subsequent kings of israel. Division of the kingdom, 1 kings 12 2 kings 16 see table on next page iv. There is a great deal of time spent on solomons kingdom and how it degraded through his reign.
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