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1 Kings Chapter
Fourteen
New King James Version (NKJV)
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, 1 Kings 14:1, the
prophecy of the prophet concerning the ruin of Jeroboam's house, and the death
of the child, which came to pass, 1 Kings 14:7, an
account of the years of Jeroboam's reign, and also of Rehoboam's, 1 Kings 14:19, and
of the evil things done and suffered by the latter in his kingdom, and the
calamities that came upon him for it, 1 Kings 14:22 and
the conclusion of his reign, 1 Kings 14:29.
1 Kings 14:1 At
that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.
YLT
1At that time was Abijah son
of Jeroboam sick,
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.
1 Kings 14:2 2 And Jeroboam said to his
wife, “Please arise, and disguise yourself, that they may not recognize you as
the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Indeed, Ahijah the prophet is
there, who told me that I would be king over this people.
YLT
2and Jeroboam saith to his
wife, `Rise, I pray thee, and change thyself, and they know not that thou [art]
wife of Jeroboam, and thou hast gone to Shiloh; lo, there [is] Ahijah the
prophet; he spake unto me of [being] king over this people;
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
BuntingF7Travels, &c. p. 161. , was twenty four miles, from
Tirzah, where Jeroboam now lived, see 1 Kings 14:17.
behold, there is Ahijah the prophet: called from thence the
Shilonite, 1 Kings 11:29,
which told me that I should be king over this people: and this
coming to pass, proved him to be a true prophet, and to be credited in what he
should say concerning their child. Jeroboam desired his wife to go on this
errand, because he did not care it should be known that he applied to any of
the prophets of the Lord; nor did he choose it should be known whose child was
inquired about, which another must have told, whereas his wife could speak of
it as her own; and she was the fittest person to give an account of the child's
illness, and would ask the most proper and pertinent questions, and bring him
back a faithful report; and he would have her be disguised, lest the prophet,
who bore no good will to him because of his apostasy, should refuse to give any
answer at all, or else give a very rough and disagreeable one.
1 Kings 14:3 3 Also take with you ten
loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him; he will tell you
what will become of the child.”
YLT
3and thou hast taken in thy
hand ten loaves, and crumbs, and a bottle of honey, and hast gone in unto him;
he doth declare to thee what becometh of the youth.'
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 Drusius, were for
the prophet's children; they very likely were spiced, or were sweetened with
honey, and might be somewhat like our simnels; they seem to have their name in
Hebrew from having points and pricks in them for the sake of ornament; such as
PlautusF8Prolog. Poenulo, ver. 43. calls "scribilitae",
because as TurnebusF9Adversar. l. 23. c. 10. says, they were marked
and pricked, and seemed as if they were written:
he shall tell thee what shall become of the child; whether it
should live or die, for that was all he wanted to know; he did not desire to
know what should be done to the child for its recovery, nor to request the
prophet's prayers for it.
1 Kings 14:4 4 And Jeroboam’s wife did
so; she arose and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah
could not see, for his eyes were glazed by reason of his age.
YLT
4And the wife of Jeroboam doth
so, and riseth, and goeth to Shiloh, and entereth the house of Ahijah, and
Ahijah is not able to see, for his eyes have stood because of his age.
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 the holes thereof, so that he could
not see objects.
1 Kings 14:5 5 Now the Lord had said to
Ahijah, “Here is the wife of Jeroboam, coming to ask you something about her
son, for he is sick. Thus and thus you shall say to her; for it will be,
when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman.”
YLT
5And Jehovah said unto
Ahijah, `Lo, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to seek a word from thee concerning
her son, for he is sick; thus and thus thou dost speak unto her, and it cometh
to pass at her coming in, that she is making herself strange.'
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 to the prophet himself; pretend herself to be a countrywoman come to ask a
question of the prophet concerning her son that was ill of a disease.
1 Kings 14:6 6 And so it was, when Ahijah
heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door, he said, “Come
in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be another person?
For I have been sent to you with bad news.
YLT
6And it cometh to pass, at
Ahijah's hearing the sound of her feet [as] she came in to the opening, that he
saith, `Come in, wife of Jeroboam, why is this -- thou art making thyself
strange? and I am sent unto thee [with] a sharp thing:
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 serve to
assure her, and so her husband, that what the prophet after delivered would
certainly come to pass:
for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings; or hard
things, such as would be very disagreeable to her and her husband.
1 Kings 14:7 7 Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus
says the Lord
God of Israel: “Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you ruler
over My people Israel,
YLT
7Go, say to Jeroboam, Thus
said Jehovah, God of Israel, Because that I have made thee high out of the
midst of the people, and appoint thee leader over my people Israel,
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.
1 Kings 14:8 8 and tore the kingdom away
from the house of David, and gave it to you; and yet you have not been
as My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his
heart, to do only what was right in My eyes;
YLT
8and rend the kingdom from
the house of David, and give it to thee, -- and thou hast not been as My
servant David who kept My commands, and who walked after Me with all his heart,
to do only that which [is] right in Mine eyes,
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.
1 Kings 14:9 9 but you have done more
evil than all who were before you, for you have gone and made for yourself
other gods and molded images to provoke Me to anger, and have cast Me behind
your back—
YLT
9and thou dost evil above
all who have been before thee, and goest, and makest to thee other gods and
molten images to provoke Me to anger, and Me thou hast cast behind thy back:
But hast done evil above all that were before thee,.... Not only
above David, but above Saul, who never gave into idolatry, yea, even above
Solomon, who, though he connived at idolatry, and might be guilty of it in some
instances, yet did not attempt to draw his people into it; and if this was the
latter end of Jeroboam's reign, which is probable, Rehoboam and Abijam might be
both dead; and though they were blameworthy in some things, yet not so bad as
Jeroboam; though perhaps this may respect only such who had been kings of
Israel before him:
for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to
provoke me to anger; the two calves of gold; for however he might colour things over,
and pretend he did not look upon these as gods, but as representations of God,
and that he did not worship them, but God by them, yet the Lord considered it
as idolatry, than which nothing is more provoking to him:
and hast cast me behind thy back; as unworthy of his regard;
or my worship, as the Targum, which he neglected, and showed no concern for.
1 Kings 14:10 10 therefore behold! I will
bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every
male in Israel, bond and free; I will take away the remnant of the house of
Jeroboam, as one takes away refuse until it is all gone.
YLT
10`Therefore, lo, I am
bringing in evil unto the house of Jeroboam, and have cut off to Jeroboam those
sitting on the wall -- shut up and left -- in Israel, and have put away the
posterity of the house of Jeroboam, as one putteth away the dung till its
consumption;
Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam,....
Calamities, destruction, and ruin:
and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall; not leave a
dog of his, or rather a male, see 1 Samuel 25:22.
and him that is shut up and left in Israel; in garrisons
or in prisons, in cities or in fields, or in whatsoever situation or
circumstances they may be. Some interpret it of wealth and substance; it
signifies an entire destruction it may be of men and goods, see Deuteronomy 32:36.
and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man
taketh away dung, till it be all gone; signifying that
Jeroboam's family was as loathsome and abominable to the Lord as dung is to
men; and that he would make as clean a riddance of them as men do of dung when
they sweep it out, and will not leave the least scrap behind.
1 Kings 14:11 11 The dogs shall eat whoever
belongs to Jeroboam and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoever
dies in the field; for the Lord has spoken!”’
YLT
11him who dieth of Jeroboam
in a city do the dogs eat, and him who dieth in a field do fowl of the heavens
eat, for Jehovah hath spoken.
Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat, and him
that dieth in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat,.... The
meaning is, that they should have no burial:
for the Lord hath spoken it; and therefore shall be
fulfilled, for what he hath said he will do, Numbers 23:19.
1 Kings 14:12 12 Arise therefore, go to
your own house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die.
YLT
12`And thou, rise, go to thy
house; in the going in of thy feet to the city -- hath the lad died;
Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house,.... With all
haste, as soon as she could:
and when thy feet enter the city; the city of Tirzah, very
probably the king's palace stood at the entry of it, see 1 Kings 14:17,
the child shall die; this is an answer to the
question she was to ask, and at the same time a token of the sure and certain
fulfilment of all the prophet had spoken in the name of the Lord.
1 Kings 14:13 13 And all Israel shall mourn
for him and bury him, for he is the only one of Jeroboam who shall come to the
grave, because in him there is found something good toward the Lord God of Israel
in the house of Jeroboam.
YLT
13and all Israel have mourned
for him, and buried him, for this one -- by himself -- cometh of Jeroboam unto
a grave, because there hath been found in him a good thing towards Jehovah, God
of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him,.... Give him
an honourable interment, and follow him to the grave with lamentation, because
he was the heir apparent to the throne, and an hopeful prince, of whom they had
raised expectations; that when he came to the throne things would take a
different turn, especially in matters of religion, and they might fear, he
being removed, things would grow worse instead of better:
for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave; or be buried,
the rest should be devoured by dogs or fowls:
because in him there is found some good thing towards the Lord God
of Israel in the house of Jeroboam; the principles of grace
were implanted, and seeds of piety and religion sown in his heart; and there
appeared a disposition of mind, and desires in him to the name of God, and the
remembrance of it; or to his pure worship and service; it might be discerned
that he had a dislike of idolatry, and a desire to have true religion restored.
The Jews sayF11T. Bab. Moed Katon, fol. 28. 2. that this good thing
in him was, that he was the means of removing the watch or guards that were
placed in the way to hinder the Israelites from going up to the feasts of the
Lord.
1 Kings 14:14 14 “Moreover the Lord will raise up
for Himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam; this is
the day. What? Even now!
YLT
14`And Jehovah hath raised up
for Him a king over Israel who cutteth off the house of Jeroboam this day --
and what? -- even now!
Moreover the Lord shall raise up a king over Israel,.... Baasha is
meant, 1 Kings 15:29.
who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day; immediately,
as soon as on the throne, he should destroy his whole family, as he did, 1 Kings 15:29,
but what? even now; shall it be that day? yes; even at that
very time, and which will be very quickly from this time; for as it may be
supposed this was said at the latter end of Jeroboam's reign, and his son and
successor reigned but two years ere this prophecy was accomplished. The Targum
is,
"who
shall cut off the house of Jeroboam, him that is living today, and shall be
from henceforward.'
1 Kings 14:15 15 For the Lord will strike
Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good
land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River,[a] because
they have made their wooden images,[b] provoking
the Lord
to anger.
YLT
15And Jehovah hath smitten
Israel as the reed is moved by the waters, and hath plucked Israel from off
this good ground that He gave to their fathers, and scattered them beyond the
River, because that they made their shrines, provoking Jehovah to anger;
And the Lord shall smite Israel as a reed is shaken in the water,.... Either by
the wind or by the stream; and may signify the fluctuating and uncertain
condition Israel should be in future reigns, through civil wars, and the
translation of the kingdom into different families; so that there was
continually disquietude and uneasiness, and no settled peace and tranquillity:
and he shall root up Israel out this good land he gave to their
fathers; which was brought about, first by Tiglathpileser, and then by
Shalmaneser, kings of Assyria, that carried them captives from hence:
and shall scatter them beyond the river; the river
Euphrates, as the Targum: or, as others, the river Gozan, 2 Kings 17:6.
because they have made their groves, provoking the Lord to anger: in which
groves they placed idols, and worshipped them, which was highly provoking to
the Lord, and the cause of their dispersion.
1 Kings 14:16 16 And He will give Israel up
because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned and who made Israel sin.”
YLT
16and He giveth up Israel
because of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned, and that he caused Israel to sin.'
And he shall give Israel up,.... Into the hands of
their enemies:
because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel
to sin; by his devices and stratagems, by his example and edicts, and by
the methods he took to prevent Israel from worshipping in the manner and place
he directed to.
1 Kings 14:17 17 Then Jeroboam’s wife arose
and departed, and came to Tirzah. When she came to the threshold of the house,
the child died.
YLT
17And the wife of Jeroboam
riseth, and goeth, and cometh to Tirzah; she hath come in to the threshold of
the house, and the youth dieth;
And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, Upon this
speech of the prophet's to her:
and came to Tirzah; where Jeroboam now had his court, and where
their son now was; it was a royal city in the time of the Canaanites, and is
commonly placed in the tribe of Manasseh, and was a very pleasant one, as its
name signifies, to which there is an allusion, Song of Solomon 6:4;
see Gill on Joshua 12:24,
and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died: just as she
was about to step over the threshold of the royal palace, which seems to have
been at the entering of the city of Tirzah, 1 Kings 14:12.
1 Kings 14:18 18 And they buried him; and
all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord which He spoke
through His servant Ahijah the prophet.
YLT
18and they bury him, and
mourn for him do all Israel, according to the word of Jehovah, that he spake by
the hand of His servant Ahijah the prophet.
And they buried him,.... In an honourable
manner, suitable to his rank and pedigree:
and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord,
which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet, 1 Kings 14:13.
1 Kings 14:19 19 Now the rest of the acts
of Jeroboam, how he made war and how he reigned, indeed they are written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
YLT
19And the rest of the matters
of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he reigned, lo, they are written on the
book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel.
And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred,.... As he did
with Rehoboam, 1 Kings 14:30, and
with Abijam his son, who was an more than a match for him, see 2 Chronicles 13:1.
and how he reigned; over the people of Israel, whether wisely,
and justly, and in clemency, or not:
behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel; not in that canonical book of Scripture, so called, for in that
there is very little account of the reign of Jeroboam; but in the annals and
diaries of the kings of Israel, written by persons appointed for that purpose,
and out of which it is generally thought that inspired writers, by divine
direction, took what was thought proper to be transmitted to future times. So
with the Romans, from their very beginning to the times of Mutius, all the
events of every year were committed to writing by the order of the Pontifex
Maximus, and lay open to be read by the people in common; and these, as TullyF12De
Oratore, l. 2. c. 34. says, were what are called annals.
1 Kings 14:20 20 The period that Jeroboam
reigned was twenty-two years. So he rested with his fathers. Then Nadab
his son reigned in his place.
YLT
20And the days that Jeroboam
reigned [are] twenty and two years, and he lieth with his fathers, and reign
doth Nadab his son in his stead.
And the days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years,.... So that
he outlived Rehoboam five years, and lived to the second year of the reign of
his grandson Asa:
and he slept with his fathers; or died as they did:
and Nadab his son reigned in his stead; who perhaps
was younger than Abijah, whose sickness and death are before related.
1 Kings 14:21 21 And Rehoboam the son of
Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he
became king. He reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen out
of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. His mother’s name was
Naamah, an Ammonitess.
YLT
21And Rehoboam son of Solomon
hath reigned in Judah; a son of forty and one years [is] Rehoboam in his
reigning, and seventeen years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, the city that
Jehovah chose to set His name there, out of all the tribes of Israel, and the
name of his mother [is] Naamah the Ammonitess.
And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah,.... Over the
two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, when Jeroboam reigned over the other ten:
Rehoboam was forty one years old when he began to reign; being born
one year before his father Solomon began to reign, and so it might have been
expected he would have begun his reign more wisely than he did:
and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem; not half so
long as his father and grandfather, being neither so wise nor so good a prince
as either of them:
the city which the Lord did choose out of all the tribes of
Israel, to put his name there; to have a temple built for him, and his
worship carried on in it; which was an aggravation of the sin of Rehoboam, that
he should reign in such a place, and yet be guilty of the crimes he was; the
three first years he reigned well, but afterwards forsook the law of the Lord, 2 Chronicles 11:17.
and his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess; and which is
observed again, 1 Kings 14:31, she
being the instrument of drawing him into idolatry, which it is very probable
she practised in the days of Solomon, 1 Kings 11:5.
1 Kings 14:22 22 Now Judah did evil in the
sight of the Lord,
and they provoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more
than all that their fathers had done.
YLT
22And Judah doth the evil
thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and they make Him zealous above all that their
fathers did by their sins that they have sinned.
And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord,.... At the
end of three years, from the beginning of the reign of Rehoboam:
and they provoked him to jealousy, with their sins which they had
committed, above all that their fathers had done; that is, with their
idolatries; for they were the sins which moved the Lord to jealousy, and
provoked the eyes of his glory; in which they had outdone not the ten tribes,
but their fathers, in the times of Moses, Joshua, and the judges, and of their
kings before their separation, Saul, David, and Solomon.
1 Kings 14:23 23 For they also built for
themselves high places, sacred pillars, and wooden images on every high
hill and under every green tree.
YLT
23And they build -- also they
-- for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and shrines, on every high
height, and under every green tree;
For they also built them high places,.... Which,
though allowed of, or at least connived at, before the temple was built, and
when the tabernacle was unfixed, yet afterwards unlawful; and the tribe of
Judah could have no excuse for them, who had the temple in their tribe:
and images; contrary to the express command of God, Exodus 20:4,
and groves on every high hill, and under every green tree; that is, set
up idols, and temples for idols, amidst groves of trees, and under all green
trees; as was the custom of the Heathens, who sacrificed on the heights of
hills and tops of mountains, as was particularly the custom of the Persians, as
both HerodotusF13Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 131. and XenophonF14Cyropaedia,
l. 8. c. 45. relate; and with the Getae, a people in Thrace, was a mountain
they reckoned sacredF15Strabo Geograph. l. 7. p. 206. .
1 Kings 14:24 24 And there were also
perverted persons[c] in the
land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord had cast out
before the children of Israel.
YLT
24and also a whoremonger hath
been in the land; they have done according to all the abominations of the
nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel.
And there were also Sodomites in the land, Such as were
addicted to unnatural lusts between men and men, which the men of Sodom were
guilty of, from whence they had their name: Jarchi interprets the word adultery
and some versions render it whoremongers; and filthy actions of this nature,
both by men and women, usually attended idolatrous practices among the
heathens; in their temples and groves such wickednesses were privately
perpetrated:
and they did according to all
the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of
Israel; the Canaanites, of whose uncleannesses, incests, and
bestialities, see Leviticus 18:1.
1 Kings 14:25 25 It happened in the fifth
year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against
Jerusalem.
YLT
25And it cometh to pass, in
the fifth year of king Rehoboam, gone up hath Shishak king of Egypt against Jerusalem,
And it came to pass in the fifth year of King Rehoboam,.... Two years
after he and his people fell into the above wicked practices:
that Shishak, king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem; of whom see 1 Kings 11:40, this
was suffered as a chastisement from the Lord for their abominations.
1 Kings 14:26 26 And he took away the
treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the
king’s house; he took away everything. He also took away all the gold shields
which Solomon had made.
YLT
26and he taketh the treasures
of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the house of the king, yea, the
whole he hath taken; and he taketh all the shields of gold that Solomon made.
And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord,.... Which
perhaps Jeroboam had informed him of, and for the sake of which he came, as
well as to make a diversion in favour of Jeroboam, who had contracted an
intimacy with him when in Egypt; and who might have no regard for Rehoboam, who
was not a son of Pharaoh's daughter, and so no relation to him: these were the
treasures which David had left to his son Solomon, and had dedicated for the
temple, even gold, silver, and vessels, which he put among the treasures of the
house of the Lord, and perhaps added to them, 1 Kings 7:51, and
the treasures of the king's house; the riches, gold, silver, and jewels,
whatever of worth and value he had in his chests and cabinets:
he even took away all: that he could find and
come at; for that there were some left is plain from 1 Kings 15:18,
and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made; and which
were put in the house of the forest of Lebanon, 1 Kings 10:16.
1 Kings 14:27 27 Then King Rehoboam made
bronze shields in their place, and committed them to the hands of the
captains of the guard, who guarded the doorway of the king’s house.
YLT
27And king Rehoboam maketh in
their stead shields of brass, and hath made [them] a charge on the hand of the
heads of the runners, those keeping the opening of the house of the king,
And King Rehoboam made in their stead brazen shields,.... For the
king of Egypt had so stripped him of his gold, that he was not able to replace
golden ones:
and committed them into the hands of the chief of the guard; or
"runners"F16הרצים
"cursorum", Pagninus, Montanus, &c. , that went before the king,
or attended him as his bodyguard when he went abroad:
which kept the door of the king's house; which kept
guard night and day in their turns.
1 Kings 14:28 28 And whenever the king
entered the house of the Lord,
the guards carried them, then brought them back into the guardroom.
YLT
28and it cometh to pass, from
the going in of the king to the house of Jehovah, the runners bear them, and
have brought them back unto the chamber of the runners.
And it was so, when the king went into the house of the Lord,.... The
temple; for though he had fallen into idolatry, he had not wholly forsaken the
worship of God in the temple, and perhaps by the late humbling providence he
might be stirred up to attend there more frequently:
that the guard bare them: before him, partly for
pomp and grandeur, and partly to keep in awe such as were inclined to mutiny
and sedition:
and brought them back into the guard chamber; when the king
returned, the place where the guard lodged and slept by turns.
1 Kings 14:29 29 Now the rest of the acts
of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
YLT
29And the rest of the matters
of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written on the book of the
Chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did,.... In the
course of his reign, that was memorable:
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah? who had annalists or historiographers to write for them, as the
kings of Israel had, 1 Kings 14:19, in
the writing of which, especially with respect to genealogies, Shemaiah the
prophet, and Iddo the seer, were concerned, 2 Chronicles 12:15.
1 Kings 14:30 30 And there was war between
Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
YLT
30And war hath been between
Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days;
And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days. For though
Rehoboam did not enter into an offensive war, and attack the children of
Israel, being dissuaded from it by Shemaiah the prophet in the name of the
Lord, yet he might maintain a defensive war; and though there were no pitched
battles between them as afterwards, in his son's time, yet there might be
skirmishes and bickerings on the borders of their countries.
1 Kings 14:31 31 So Rehoboam rested with
his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. His mother’s
name was Naamah, an Ammonitess. Then Abijam[d] his son
reigned in his place.
YLT
31and Rehoboam lieth with his
fathers, and is buried with his fathers, in the city of David, and the name of
his mother [is] Naamah the Ammonitess, and reign doth Abijam his son in his
stead.
And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David,.... Where David and Solomon were buried, 1 Kings 2:10 and
his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess; which is repeated, that it might
be observed as what was the leading step to his idolatry, and the means of his
continuing in it:
and Abijam his son reigned in his stead; of whom there
is a further account in the following chapter.
──《John Gill’s
Exposition of the Bible》
New King James
Version (NKJV)