1 Kings 11:30 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces: ”

• 1 Kings 11:30 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The first instance of the “acted parable.” Generally this mode was adopted upon express divine command (see Jeremiah 13:1-11 ; Ezekiel 3:1-3 ). A connection may be traced between the type selecte...

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And Ahijah caught the new garment that [was] on him, and (p) rent it [in] twelve pieces: (p) By these visible signs the prophets would more deeply print their message into the hearts of those to who...

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - 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...

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  rent it. Symbolic act. Compare 1 Kings 22:11 . Isaiah 20:2 , &c. Jeremiah 19:1-13 . Ezekiel 12:1-20 ; Zechariah 11:7 ; Zechariah 11:10 ; Zechariah 11:14 .

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  1 Kings 11:30 . A hijah caught the new garment,—and rent it — Language, it appears from the nature of the thing, from the records of history, and from the remains of the most ancient languages s...

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces: And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces. This is the first symbolical...

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - 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...

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Rent it in twelve pieces. — The use of symbolical acts is frequent in subsequent prophecy (especially see Jeremiah 13:1 ; Jeremiah 19:1 ; Jeremiah 27:2 ; Ezekiel 4:5 ; Ezekiel 12:1-7 ; Ezekie...

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - 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...

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - 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...

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - 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...

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (29) And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were al...

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him ,.... This looks as if it was Jeroboam's garment, having got a new one to appear before the king in; though the sense may be this, that the prophet...

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And Ahijah caught the new garment that [was] on him, and rent it [in] twelve pieces: Ver. 30. And rent it. ] This he did for a sign. See 1 Kings 11:11 , where the kingdom is likened unto a glorio...

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And rent it in twelve pieces An emblem of what he was to acquaint him with; or rather a prediction of it. For there were two ways, in those ancient times, of foretelling future events; one in expre...

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - 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...

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Jeroboam's Promotion Foretold. B. C. 977.       26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrath...

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  YHWH Raises Up Three Adversaries to Solomon ( 1 Kings 11:14-40 ). At the commencement of his reign Solomon had had to deal with three rebels against the throne, Adonijah, Abiathar and Joab and Shi...

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - 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...

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - 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...

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - 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,...

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Solomon's Adversaries and Death

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• 1 Kings 11:30 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 15:27 ; 1 Samuel 15:28 ; 1 Samuel 24:4 ; 1 Samuel 24:5

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