1 Kings 14:7-10

7 "Go, say to Jeroboam, 'Thus says the LORD God of Israel, "¹Because * I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over My people Israel,

8 and ²tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you-³yet you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed * Me with all his heart, ⁴to do only that which was right in My sight;

9 you also have done more evil than all who were before you, and ⁵have gone and made for yourself other gods and ⁶molten images to provoke Me to anger, and have ⁷cast Me behind your back -

10 therefore behold, I am bringing calamity on the house of Jeroboam, and ⁸will cut off from Jeroboam every male * person, ⁹both bond and free in Israel, and I ¹⁰will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone.

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1 Kings 14:7-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 14

This chapter relates the sickness of Jeroboam's son, the application of his wife, at his instance, to the prophet Ahijah, in the child's favour, 1Ki 14:1-6, the prophecy of the prophet concerning the ruin of Jeroboam's house, and the death of the child, which came to pass, 1Ki 14:7-18, an account of the years of Jeroboam's reign, and also of Rehoboam's, 1Ki 14:19-21, and of the evil things done and suffered by the latter in his kingdom, and the calamities that came upon him for it, 1Ki 14:22-28 and the conclusion of his reign, 1Ki 14:29-31.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 10

1. 2 Samuel 12:7; 1 Kings 11:28-31; 1 Kings 16:2
2. 1 Kings 11:31
3. 1 Kings 11:33, 38
4. 1 Kings 15:5
5. 1 Kings 12:28; 2 Chronicles 11:15
6. Exodus 34:17
7. Nehemiah 9:26; Psalms 50:17; Ezekiel 23:35
8. 1 Kings 21:21; 2 Kings 9:8
9. Deuteronomy 32:36; 2 Kings 14:26
10. 1 Kings 15:29

Footnotes 1

[a]. Lit "him who urinates against the wall"

1 Kings 14:7-10

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1 Kings 14:7-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 14

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