1 Kings 14:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die. ”

• 1 Kings 14:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Visit of Jeroboam's Wife to Ahijah. Here we have an ancient story with Deuteronomic additions. According to the LXX ( 1 Kings 12:24 g-m), Jeroboam sent his wife (Ano) to the prophet before he...

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• 1 Kings 14:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.

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• 1 Kings 14:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die. The child shall die. The death and general lamentation felt throughout the count...

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• 1 Kings 14:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Sins of Jeroboam and Rehoboam and their Punishment 2. Shiloh] The modern Seilûn, N. of Bethel and E. of the road leading from Bethel to Shechem ( Judges 21:19 ).

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• 1 Kings 14:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  DOOM OF THE HOUSE OF NEBAT 1 Kings 14:1-20 "Whom the gods love die young." -EPICTET. THE other story about Jeroboam is full of pathos; and though here, too, there are obvious signs that, in i...

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• 1 Kings 14:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Blind Prophet Sees Jeroboam's Doom 1 Kings 14:1-16 How blind we become when we sin against our conscience! Each act of willful sin puts another shade on the window of the soul. “Their fooli...

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• 1 Kings 14:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In the story now recorded God is seen acting in judgment. The sickness of the son of Jeroboam was the first stroke of punishment and in connection therewith the prophet Ahijah uttered the doom of the...

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• 1 Kings 14:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (6) And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee wi...

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• 1 Kings 14:12 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE CHILD THAT WAS TOO GOOD TO LIVE ‘The child shall die.’ 1 Kings 14:12 Jeroboam has filled up the measure of his iniquity, and among the things that he has to suffer this is one of the gre...

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• 1 Kings 14:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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 en...

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• 1 Kings 14:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: [and] when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die. Ver. 12. The child shall die. ] This heavy news could not but pierce through the mo...

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• 1 Kings 14:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  When thy feet enter into the city Or, rather, when thy feet have entered: that is, presently upon thy entrance into the city; when thou art gone but a little way in it, even as far as the thresho...

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• 1 Kings 14:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JEREBOAM WARNED THROUGH HIS SON'S DEATH Though God had sought to reach Jereboam's conscience by the message and actions of the man of God, this produced no effect. So God used another means, by th...

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• 1 Kings 14:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Ruin of Jeroboam's House Foretold; Abijah's Character and Death. B. C. 960.       7 Go,...

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• 1 Kings 14:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Presently upon thy entrance into the city; when thou art gone but a little way in it, even as far as to the threshold of the king's door, 1 Kings 14:17 , which possibly was near the gates of the c...

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• 1 Kings 14:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Jeroboam's Wife Approaches Ahijah The Prophet Concerning The Sickness of Their Son ( 1 Kings 14:1-18 ). The life story of Jeroboam concludes with a quite remarkable story. It would appear that the...

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• 1 Kings 14:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THE REIGNS OF JEROBOAM AND REHOBOAM CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES .— 1 Kings 14:1 . Abijah, the son of Jeroboam —Natural heir to the kingdom. His sickness, therefore, seemed to imperil the cont...

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• 1 Kings 14:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  1 Kings 14:2 . Ahijah the prophet; an illustrious man of God, now full of days, and full of grace. 1 Kings 14:3 . Ten loaves. A rustic present, that it might not excite suspicion of a royal vi...

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• 1 Kings 14:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. A good boy and a bad family One beautiful flower in a desert; one lovely rose amongst thorns; one fruitful branch on a corrupt tree. We are go...

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• 1 Kings 14:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE DEATH OF JEROBOAM 'S SON .—The protest of the prophet of Judah, the signs which supported it, and above all the solemn visitation, with its strange portents, which straigh...

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• 1 Kings 14:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Ahijah's Prophecy against Jeroboam

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• 1 Kings 14:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 14:16 ; 1 Kings 14:17 ; 1 Kings 14:3 ; 2 Kings 1:16 ; 2 Kings 1:6 ; John 4:50-52

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• 1 Kings 14:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  When, &c. — Presently upon thy entrance into the city; when thou art gone but a little way in it, even as far as to the threshold of the king's door, 1 Kings 14:17 , which possibly was near th...

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