geneva - 1Kings:13-15

geneva@1Kings:13:1 @ And, behold, there came (note:)That is, a prophet.(:note) a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Not that that was called Luz in Benjamin, but another of that name. Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.

geneva@1Kings:13:2 @ And he cryed against the altar by the comandement of the Lorde, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord, Beholde, a child shalbe borne vnto the house of Dauid, Iosiah by name, and vpon thee shall he sacrifice the Priestes of the hie places that burne incense vpon thee, and they shall burne mens bones vpon thee.

geneva@1Kings:13:3 @ And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This [is] the (note:)By this sign you will know that the Lord has sent me.(:note) sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that [are] upon it shall be poured out.

geneva@1Kings:13:4 @ And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, (note:)The wicked rage against the prophets of God, when they declare God's judgment to them.(:note) Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.

geneva@1Kings:13:5 @ The altar also claue asunder, and the ashes fell out from the altar, according to the signe, which the man of God had giuen by the commandement of the Lord.

geneva@1Kings:13:6 @ And the king answered and said unto the man of God, (note:)Though the wicked humble themselves for a time when they feel God's judgment, they return to their old malice and declare that they are but vile hypocrites.(:note) Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as [it was] before.

geneva@1Kings:13:7 @ Then the King sayde vnto the man of God, Come home with mee, that thou mayest dyne, and I will giue thee a reward.

geneva@1Kings:13:8 @ But the man of God saide vnto the King, If thou wouldest giue me halfe thine house, I would not goe in with thee, neither woulde I eate bread nor drinke water in this place.

geneva@1Kings:13:9 @ For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, (note:)Seeing he had the express word of God, he should not have declined from it, neither for the persuasion of man nor angel.(:note) Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.

geneva@1Kings:13:10 @ So he went another way and returned not by the way that he came to Beth-el.

geneva@1Kings:13:11 @ And an olde Prophet dwelt in Beth-el, and his sonnes came and tolde him all ye woorkes, that the man of God had done that day in Beth-el, and the wordes which he had spoken vnto the King, tolde they their father.

geneva@1Kings:13:12 @ And their father sayde vnto them, What way went he? and his sonnes shewed him what waye the man of God went, which came from Iudah.

geneva@1Kings:13:13 @ And hee saide vnto his sonnes, Saddle mee the asse. Who sadled him the asse, and hee rode thereon,

geneva@1Kings:13:14 @ And went after the man of God, & found him sitting vnder an oke: and he saide vnto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Iudah? And he sayd, Yea.

geneva@1Kings:13:15 @ Then he said unto him, (note:)This he did of a simple mind, thinking it his duty to declare friendship to a prophet.(:note) Come home with me, and eat bread.

geneva@1Kings:13:16 @ But he answered, I may not returne with thee, nor go in with thee, neither wil I eate bread nor drinke water with thee in this place.

geneva@1Kings:13:17 @ For it was charged me by the word of the Lord, saying, Thou shalt eate no bread, nor drinke water there, nor turne againe to goe by the way that thou wentest.

geneva@1Kings:13:18 @ He said unto him, I [am] a prophet also as thou [art]; and an (note:)His fault is here double, first in that he did not permit the prophet to obey God's express commandment, and next that he pretended to have a revelation to the contrary.(:note) angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. [But] he lied unto him.

geneva@1Kings:13:19 @ So he went againe with him, and did eate bread in his house, and dranke water.

geneva@1Kings:13:20 @ And as they sate at the table, the worde of the Lorde came vnto the Prophet, that brought him againe.

geneva@1Kings:13:21 @ And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, (note:)God would reprove his folly by him who caused him to err.(:note) Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee,

geneva@1Kings:13:22 @ But camest backe againe, and hast eaten bread and drunke water in the place (whereof he did say vnto thee, Thou shalt eate no bread nor drinke any water) thy carkeis shall not come vnto the sepulchre of thy fathers.

geneva@1Kings:13:23 @ And when he had eaten bread & drunke, he sadled him the asse, to wit, to the Prophet whome he had brought againe.

geneva@1Kings:13:24 @ And when he was gone, (note:)By this fearful example, God sets forth how dangerous it is for men to behave coldly, or deceitfully in the charge to which God has called them.(:note) a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.

geneva@1Kings:13:25 @ And beholde, men that passed by, sawe the carkeis cast in the way, and the lion standing by the corps: and they came and tolde it in ye towne where the olde Prophet dwelt.

geneva@1Kings:13:26 @ And when the Prophet that brought him backe againe from the waye, hearde thereof, hee sayde, It is the man of God, who hath bene disobedient vnto the commandement of the Lorde: therefore the Lorde hath deliuered him vnto the lion, which hath rent him and slayne him, according to the worde of the Lorde, which hee spake vnto him.

geneva@1Kings:13:27 @ And he spake to his sonnes, saying, Saddle me the asse; they sadled him.

geneva@1Kings:13:28 @ And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had (note:)To declare that this was only the judgment of God: for if the lion had done it for hunger, he would also have devoured the body.(:note) not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass.

geneva@1Kings:13:29 @ And the Prophet tooke vp the body of the man of God, & layed it vpon the asse, & brought it againe, and the olde Prophet came to the citie, to lament and burie him.

geneva@1Kings:13:30 @ And he laid his carcase in his (note:)Which he had prepared for himself.(:note) own grave; and they mourned over him, [saying], Alas, my brother!

geneva@1Kings:13:31 @ And when he had buried him, hee spake to his sonnes, saying, When I am dead, burie ye mee also in the sepulchre, wherein the man of God is buried: lay my bones beside his bones.

geneva@1Kings:13:32 @ For that thing which he cried by the word of the Lorde against the altar that is in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the hie places, which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to passe.

geneva@1Kings:13:33 @ After this thing Jeroboam (note:)So the wicked do not profit by God's threatenings, but go backward and become worse and worse, (2Ti_3:13).(:note) returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became [one] of the priests of the high places.

geneva@1Kings:13:34 @ And this thing turned to sinne vnto the house of Ieroboam, euen to roote it out, and destroy it from the face of the earth.

geneva@1Kings:14:1 @ At that time Abiiah the sonne of Ieroboam fell sicke.

geneva@1Kings:14:2 @ And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, (note:)His own conscience bore witness to him that the prophet of God would not satisfy his desires, who was a wicked man.(:note) and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there [is] Ahijah the prophet, which told me that [I should be] king over this people.

geneva@1Kings:14:3 @ And take with (note:)According to the custom when they went to ask counsel of prophets, (1Sa_9:7).(:note) thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.

geneva@1Kings:14:4 @ And Ieroboams wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahiiah: but Ahiiah could not see, for his sight was decayed for his age.

geneva@1Kings:14:5 @ And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he [is] sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself [to be] (note:)Than the wife of Jeroboam.(:note) another [woman].

geneva@1Kings:14:6 @ 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 (note:)For God often discloses to his own the craft and subtilty of the wicked.(:note) wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself [to be] another? for I [am] sent to thee [with] heavy [tidings].

geneva@1Kings:14:7 @ Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted (note:)Who was but a servant.(:note) thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,

geneva@1Kings:14:8 @ And haue rent the kingdome away from the house of Dauid, and haue giuen it thee, and thou hast not bene as my seruant Dauid, which kept my commaundements, and followed mee with all his heart, and did onely that which was right in mine eyes,

geneva@1Kings:14:9 @ But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and (note:)That is, two calves.(:note) molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

geneva@1Kings:14:10 @ Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that (note:)Every male even to the dogs, (1Sa_25:22).(:note) pisseth against the wall, [and] him that As well him that is in the stronghold, as him that is abroad. is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.

geneva@1Kings:14:11 @ Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: (note:)They will lack the honour of burial in token of God's curse.(:note) for the LORD hath spoken [it].

geneva@1Kings:14:12 @ Vp therefore and get thee to thine house: for when thy feete enter into the citie, the childe shall die.

geneva@1Kings:14:13 @ And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found (note:)In the midst of the wicked, God has some on whom he bestows his mercies.(:note) [some] good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

geneva@1Kings:14:14 @ Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: (note:)The Lord will begin to destroy it out of hand.(:note) but what? even now.

geneva@1Kings:14:15 @ For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the (note:)Meaning the Euphrates.(:note) river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.

geneva@1Kings:14:16 @ And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who (note:)The people will not be excused when they do evil at the commandment of their governors.(:note) made Israel to sin.

geneva@1Kings:14:17 @ And Ieroboams wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah, and when shee came to the threshold of the house, the yong man dyed,

geneva@1Kings:14:18 @ And they buried him, and all Israel lamented him; according to the word of the Lord, which hee spake by the hand of his seruant Ahiiah the Prophet.

geneva@1Kings:14:19 @ And the rest of Ieroboams actes, how hee warred, and howe hee reigned, beholde, they are written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

geneva@1Kings:14:20 @ And the days which Jeroboam reigned [were] two and twenty years: and he (note:)The Lord smote him and he died, (2Ch_13:20).(:note) slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.

geneva@1Kings:14:21 @ And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam [was] forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen (note:)And died about four years before Jeroboam.(:note) years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an Ammonitess.

geneva@1Kings:14:22 @ And Iudah wrought wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde: and they prouoked him more with their sinnes, which they had committed, then all that which their fathers had done.

geneva@1Kings:14:23 @ For they also made them hie places, and images, and groues on euery hie hill, and vnder euery greene tree.

geneva@1Kings:14:24 @ And there were also sodomites in the (note:)Where idolatry reigns, all horrible vices are committed, till at length God's just judgment destroys them completely.(:note) land: [and] they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

geneva@1Kings:14:25 @ And in the fift yere of King Rehoboam, Shishak King of Egypt came vp against Ierusale,

geneva@1Kings:14:26 @ And tooke the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the Kings house, and tooke away all: also he caried away all the shields of golde which Salomon had made.

geneva@1Kings:14:27 @ And King Rehoboam made for them brasen shieldes, and committed them vnto ye hands of the chiefe of the garde, which wayted at the doore of the Kings house.

geneva@1Kings:14:28 @ And when the King went into the house of the Lorde, the garde bare them, and brought them againe into the gard chamber.

geneva@1Kings:14:29 @ Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, [are] they not written in (note:)Which were called the books of Shemaiah and Iddo the prophets, (2Ch_12:15).(:note) the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

geneva@1Kings:14:30 @ And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam (note:)That is, all the days of Rehoboam's life.(:note) all [their] days.

geneva@1Kings:14:31 @ And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an (note:)Whose idolatry Rehoboam her son followed.(:note) Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.

geneva@1Kings:15:1 @ And in the eighteene yere of King Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, reigned Abiiam ouer Iudah.

geneva@1Kings:15:2 @ Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Maachah, the daughter of (note:)Some think that this was Absalom Solomon's son.(:note) Abishalom.

geneva@1Kings:15:3 @ And hee walked in all the sinnes of his father, which hee had done before him: and his heart was not perfit with the Lord his God as the heart of Dauid his father.

geneva@1Kings:15:4 @ Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a (note:)Meaning, a son to reign over Judah.(:note) lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:

geneva@1Kings:15:5 @ Because Dauid did that which was right in the sight of the Lorde, and turned from nothing that he commanded him, all the dayes of his life, saue onely in the matter of Vriah the Hittite.

geneva@1Kings:15:6 @ And there was warre betweene Rehoboam and Ieroboam as long as he liued.

geneva@1Kings:15:7 @ The rest also of the actes of Abiiam, and all that he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah? There was also warre betweene Abiiam, and Ieroboam.

geneva@1Kings:15:8 @ And Abiiam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the citie of Dauid: and Asa his sonne reigned in his steade.

geneva@1Kings:15:9 @ And in the twentie yeere of Ieroboam King of Israel reigned Asa ouer Iudah.

geneva@1Kings:15:10 @ And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his (note:)That is, his grandmother, as David is often called the father of those who are his grandchildren.(:note) mother's name [was] Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

geneva@1Kings:15:11 @ And Asa did right in the eyes of the Lord, as did Dauid his father.

geneva@1Kings:15:12 @ And he tooke away the Sodomites out of the lande, and put away all the idoles that his fathers had made.

geneva@1Kings:15:13 @ And also Maachah his mother, even her he (note:)Neither kindred nor authority should be regarded when they blaspheme God and become idolaters, but must be punished.(:note) removed from [being] queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt [it] by the brook Kidron.

geneva@1Kings:15:14 @ But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was (note:)Though he permitted them to worship God in other places than he had appointed it came from ignorance, and not from malice.(:note) perfect with the LORD all his days.

geneva@1Kings:15:15 @ Also he brought in the holy vessels of his father, & the things that he had dedicated vnto ye house of the Lord, siluer, and golde, and vessels.

geneva@1Kings:15:16 @ And there was warre betweene Asa and Baasha King of Israel all their dayes.

geneva@1Kings:15:17 @ And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built (note:)For the same reason that Jeroboam did, because the people should not go up to Jerusalem, least they follow Asa.(:note) Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

geneva@1Kings:15:18 @ Then Asa tooke all the siluer and the gold that was left in the treasures of the house of the Lord, & the treasures of the kings house, and deliuered them into the handes of his seruantes, and King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the sonne of Tabrimon, the sonne of Hezion king of Aram that dwelt at Damascus, saying,

geneva@1Kings:15:19 @ [There is] a league between me and thee, [and] between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may (note:)And vex me no longer.(:note) depart from me.

geneva@1Kings:15:20 @ So Ben-hadad hearkened vnto King Asa, and sent the captaines of the hosts, which he had, against the cities of Israel, and smote lion, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, & all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

geneva@1Kings:15:21 @ And when Baasha heard thereof, hee left buylding of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.

geneva@1Kings:15:22 @ Then king Asa assembled al Iudah, none excepted; they tooke the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had buylt, & King Asa built with them Geba of Beniamin and Mizpah.

geneva@1Kings:15:23 @ The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his (note:)He had gout and put his trust physicians rather than in the Lord, (2Ch_16:12).(:note) feet.

geneva@1Kings:15:24 @ And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his (note:)His great-grandfather.(:note) father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.

geneva@1Kings:15:25 @ And Nadab the sonne of Ieroboam began to reigne ouer Israel the second yere of Asa King of Iudah, and reigned ouer Israel two yeere.

geneva@1Kings:15:26 @ And he did euill in the sight of the Lorde, walking in the way of his father, and in his sinne wherewith he made Israel to sinne.

geneva@1Kings:15:27 @ And Baasha the sonne of Ahijah of ye house of Issachar conspired against him, and Baasha slue him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistims: for Nadab and all Israel layde siege to Gibbethon.

geneva@1Kings:15:28 @ Euen in the third yeere of Asa King of Iudah did Baasha slay him, & reigned in his steade.

geneva@1Kings:15:29 @ And it came to pass, when he reigned, [that] he (note:)So God stirred up one tyrant to punish the wickedness of another.(:note) smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:

geneva@1Kings:15:30 @ Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his (note:)By causing the people to commit idolatry with his calves, and so provoking God to anger.(:note) provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.

geneva@1Kings:15:31 @ And the residue of the actes of Nadab, & all that he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

geneva@1Kings:15:32 @ And there was warre betweene Asa & Baasha King of Israel, all their dayes.

geneva@1Kings:15:33 @ In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in (note:)Which was the place where the kings of Israel remained.(:note) Tirzah, twenty and four years.

geneva@1Kings:15:34 @ And he did euill in the sight of the Lorde, walking in the way of Ieroboam, & in his sinne, wherewith he made Israel to sinne.

geneva@1Kings:16:1 @ Then the word of the Lord came to Iehu the sonne of Hanani against Baasha, saying,