1 Kings 13:32

32 The message that he preached by God's command against the Altar at Bethel and against all the sex-and-religion shrines in the towns of Samaria will come true."

1 Kings 13:32 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 13:32

For the saying which he cried by the word of the Lord against
the altar in Bethel
That the priests should be offered on it, and men's bones be burnt upon it; for as for its being rent, and the ashes of it poured out, that had been done already:

and against all the houses of the high places which are in Samaria,
shall surely come to pass:
by which it appears that there were temples, and high places, and altars built in other parts of the kingdom besides Dan and Bethel, of the destruction of which the man of God prophesied, though not before mentioned; all which the old prophet gave credit to, and firmly believed would be accomplished. The kingdom of Israel, in later times, had the name of Samaria, from the chief city of it, ( Isaiah 7:9 ) , here spoken of by anticipation, for as yet it was not in being, see ( 1 Kings 16:24 ) and either it has its name here by way of prophecy, or else given by the writer of this book, as what it went by in his time.

1 Kings 13:32 In-Context

30 He placed the body in his own tomb. The people mourned, saying, "A sad day, brother!"

31 After the funeral, the prophet said to his sons, "When I die, bury me in the same tomb where the holy man is buried, my bones alongside his bones.

32 The message that he preached by God's command against the Altar at Bethel and against all the sex-and-religion shrines in the towns of Samaria will come true."

33 After this happened, Jeroboam kept right on doing evil, recruiting priests for the forbidden shrines indiscriminately - anyone who wanted to could be a priest at one of the local shrines.

34 This was the root sin of Jeroboam's government. And it was this that ruined him.