1 Kings 14:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: ”

• 1 Kings 14:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The examination of the famous inscription of Shishak at Karnak has resulted in the proof that the expedition commemorated was directed against Palestine, and has further thrown a good deal of light...

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• 1 Kings 14:25 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Reign of Rehoboam. The formula in 1 Kings 14:21 is regularly employed in Kings. The LXX make his age sixteen, and gives him twelve years. The name of the king's mother is given, since she, and no...

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• 1 Kings 14:25 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Shishak. Founder of the twenty-second dynasty. against. See note on Judges 1:8 , and App-53.

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• 1 Kings 14:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:

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• 1 Kings 14:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Shishak, king of Egypt— It may seem something strange, that Shishak, who was so nearly allied to Rehoboam, should come up against him and take his royal city; but Rehoboam, we must remember, was no...

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• 1 Kings 14:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: Shishak king of Egypt came up. He was the instrument in the hand of Providence fo...

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• 1 Kings 14:25 - 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 14:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Shishak. — His invasion is narrated at greater length in the record of Chronicles ( 2 Chronicles 12:2-12 ), which contains a description of his army, and a notice of the preservation of Jerusalem f...

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• 1 Kings 14:25 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE EARLIER KINGS OF JUDAH 1 Kings 14:21-31 ; 1 Kings 15:1-24 THE history of "the Jews" begins, properly speaking, from the reign of Rehoboam, and for four centuries it is mainly the history o...

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• 1 Kings 14:25 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  South Rivals Worth in Sinning 1 Kings 14:17-31 Rehoboam's mother's name signifies beauty , and she may have been attractive in her person; but we are twice told that she was an Ammonitess, as...

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• 1 Kings 14:25 - 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 14:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (25) And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: (26) And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of t...

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• 1 Kings 14:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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...

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• 1 Kings 14:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, [that] Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: Ver. 25. Shishak king of Egypt. ] Diodorus Siculus calleth him Sasokis; Justin, Susa...

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• 1 Kings 14:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  In the fifth year of King Rehoboam Presently after his and his people's apostacy, which was not till his fourth year; while apostate Israel enjoyed peace, and some kind of prosperity; of which diff...

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• 1 Kings 14:25 - 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 14:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Rehoboam's Disgrace and Death. B. C. 960.       21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned i...

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• 1 Kings 14:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  In the fifth year of king Rehoboam; presently after his and his people's apostacy, which was not till his fourth year; when the apostical Israelites enjoyed peace and some kind of prosperity, at fi...

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• 1 Kings 14:25 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Reign Of Rehoboam of Judah c. 930-913 BC ( 1 Kings 14:21-31 ). The sad thing about Rehoboam's reign would be its extreme bankruptcy. He reigned over a country which went to the excess in relig...

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• 1 Kings 14:25 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES .— 1 Kings 14:21-31 . From incidents associated with the kingdom of ISRAEL, the historian now turns to JUDAH. 1 Kings 14:28 . Naamah an Ammonitess — Sept. reads...

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• 1 Kings 14:25 - 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 14:25 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE REIGN OF REHOBOAM .— 1 Kings 14:21 And Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty [or twenty. See on 1 Kings 12:1 ] and one years old when...

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• 1 Kings 14:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Rule of Rehoboam

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• 1 Kings 14:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 11:40 ; 2 Chronicles 12:2-4

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• 1 Kings 14:25 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Fifth year — Presently after his and his people's apostacy, which was not 'till his fourth year: while apostate, Israel enjoyed peace and some kind of prosperity, of which difference, two reasons m...

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