1 Kings 11:37 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel. ”

1 Kings 11:37 - 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...
1 Kings 11:37 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel. According to all that thy soul desireth - It appears from this that Jeroboam had aff...
1 Kings 11:37 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel. No JFB commentary on these verses.
1 Kings 11:37 - 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...
1 Kings 11:37 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Take thee ten pieces. — The message delivered by Ahijah first repeats exactly the former warning to Solomon ( 1 Kings 11:9-13 ), marking, by the two reserved pieces of the garment, the duality of t...
1 Kings 11:37 - 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...
1 Kings 11:37 - 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...
1 Kings 11:37 - 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...
1 Kings 11:37 - 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...
1 Kings 11:37 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And I will take thee ,.... From the low estate in which he was, to be king: and thou shall reign according to all that thy soul desireth ; he being ambitious of the kingdom, and having already for...
1 Kings 11:37 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel. Ver. 37. And thou shalt reign. ] This the bramble held a goodly business, not so...
1 Kings 11:37 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I will take thee From the condition wherein thou art, and place thee on a throne, as here follows. Thou shalt reign according to all thy soul desireth According to thy utmost wishes and desires....
1 Kings 11:37 - 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...
1 Kings 11:37 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeroboam's Promotion Foretold. B. C. 977. 26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrath...
1 Kings 11:37 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I will take thee, and place thee in the throne, as it follows. According to all that thy soul desireth; he secretly taxeth him for his ambitious and aspiring mind.
1 Kings 11:37 - 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...
1 Kings 11:37 - 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...
1 Kings 11:37 - 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...
1 Kings 11:37 - 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,...
1 Kings 11:37 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Solomon's Adversaries and Death
1 Kings 11:37 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 11:26 ; 2 Samuel 3:21 ; Deuteronomy 14:26

1 Kings 11:37 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Kings 11:37 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Kings 11:37 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Kings 11:37 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Kings 11:37 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Kings 11:37 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Kings 11:37 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Kings 11:37 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Kings 11:37 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Kings 11:37 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Kings 11:37 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Kings 11:37 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Kings 11:37 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Kings 11:37 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Kings 11:37 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Kings 11:37 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Kings 11:37 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Kings 11:37 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Kings 11:37 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Kings 11:37 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Kings 11:37 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge