1 Kings 11:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:) ”

• 1 Kings 11:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Every male in Edom - i. e., every male whom he could find. As did Hadad and his company 1 Kings 11:17 , so others would escape in various directions. The Edomite nation was not destroyed on the...

  Read the comments

• 1 Kings 11:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Sin of Solomon, and the Adversaries Raised up in Consequence. From various differences in the arrangement of the earlier verses in the LXX and Heb., it has been supposed that in its original form t...

  Read the comments

• 1 Kings 11:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  six months. See note on 2 Samuel 8:13 . Note also Figure of speech Parenthesis (App-6), 1 Kings 11:16 .

  Read the comments

• 1 Kings 11:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)

  Read the comments

• 1 Kings 11:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:) No JFB commentary on these verses.

  Read the comments

• 1 Kings 11:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Solomon's Errors and their Consequences. His Death This chapter furnishes an account of Solomon's marriages with numerous foreign princesses, and traces the evil effect of such in the toleration o...

  Read the comments

• 1 Kings 11:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (14-25) The events recorded in this section belong, at least in part, to the early years of the reign of Solomon. when the deaths of the warlike David and Joab, and the accession of a mere youth of a...

  Read the comments

• 1 Kings 11:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  HOLLOW PROSPERITY 1 Kings 11:1-43 "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity." - Ecclesiastes 1:2 "At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated...

  Read the comments

• 1 Kings 11:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Breaking Three Commandments 1 Kings 21:1-29 ; 1 Kings 1:1-53 ; 1 Kings 2:1-46 ; 1 Kings 3:1-28 ; 1 Kings 4:1-34 ; 1 Kings 5:1-18 ; 1 Kings 6:1-38 ; 1 Kings 7:1-51 ; 1 Kings 8:1-66 ; 1 Ki...

  Read the comments

• 1 Kings 11:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  At this point the story of Solomon suddenly changes. The glory passes away, and we observe his rapid degeneracy and doom. The nature of the man had ever a strong animal side. His commercial enterpris...

  Read the comments

• 1 Kings 11:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (14) В¶ And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom. (15) For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was...

  Read the comments

• 1 Kings 11:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For six months did Joab remain with all Israel ,.... With the whole army: until he had cut off every male in Edom ; as he supposed; for it was not fact, since after this they increased again, and...

  Read the comments

• 1 Kings 11:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  1 Kings 11:16 (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:) Ver. 16. Until he had cut off every male, ] viz., That was taken in the heat of the...

  Read the comments

• 1 Kings 11:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  When David was in Edom By his army to war against it; and Joab was gone up to bury the slain The Israelites who were slain in the battle, ( 2 Samuel 8:13-14 ,) whom he honourably interred in some...

  Read the comments

• 1 Kings 11:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  MANY MARRIAGES LEADING TO IDOLATRY (vs.1-13) Solomon also disobeyed Deuteronomy 17:17 in making many marriages with foreign women, from the Moabites, Alnmonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittite...

  Read the comments

• 1 Kings 11:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Solomon's Adversaries. B. C. 980.       14 And the L ORD stirred up an adversary unto Solom...

  Read the comments

• 1 Kings 11:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

  Read the comments

• 1 Kings 11:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Hadad The Edomite ( 1 Kings 11:14-22 ). The first adversary was Hadad, the Edomite. He was of the royal family of Edom and had escaped the retaliatory massacre that necessarily followed an Edomite...

  Read the comments

• 1 Kings 11:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  HOMILETICS OF 1 Kings 11:14-40 THE AGENTS OF DIVINE RETRIBUTION I. Are secretly preparing when least suspected . Hadad and Rezon on the frontier, and Jeroboam under the shadow of the throne, w...

  Read the comments

• 1 Kings 11:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  1 Kings 11:1 . Solomon loved many strange women, of gentile nations, and was connected with them. To this day thousands of women in India are married to great men merely as a mark of honour, and t...

  Read the comments

• 1 Kings 11:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And the Lord stirred up an adversary unto Solomon. Divine impulses Is this an old story that has in it no modern pith or music, or is it our own life anticipated and set in strange lights? Does...

  Read the comments

• 1 Kings 11:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION SOLOMON 'S ADVERSARIES .—As the historian has collected together in 1 Kings 6:1-11 ; 1 Kings 7:1-11 ; 1 Kings 8:1-11 , all the information he can convey respecting the temple,...

  Read the comments

• 1 Kings 11:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Solomon's Adversaries and Death

  Read the comments