1Ki 13 | TSK | STEP | Jeroboam's hand withers, and at the prayer of the prophet is restored. The prophet departs from Beth-el. An old prophet brings him back. He is reproved by God, slain by a lion, buried by the old prophet, who confirms his prophecy. Jeroboam's obstinacy. there came. by the word. Jeroboam. burn. or, offer.

I will give.As great men in the East make no presents to equals or inferiors when visited, Sir John Chardin thinks that the king intended by this to treat the prophet as his superior.

1Sa 9:7,8; 2Ki 5:15; Jer 40:5; Mal 1:10; Ac 8:18-20; 1Pe 5:2

If.

Nu 22:18; 24:13; Ex 5:3,6; 7:2; Mr 6:23

go.

2Ki 5:16,26,27; Mr 6:11; 2Co 11:9,10

For.

1,21,22; 1Sa 15:22; Job 23:12; Joh 13:17; 15:9,10,14

Eat no bread.

Nu 16:26; De 13:13-18; Ps 141:4; Ro 16:17; 1Co 5:11; Eph 5:11

2Jo 1:10,11; Re 18:4

an old prophet.

20,21; Nu 23:4,5; 24:2; 1Sa 10:11; 2Ki 23:18; Eze 13:2,16

Mt 7:22; 2Pe 2:16

sons. Heb. son. came.

1Ti 3:5

27; Nu 22:21; Jud 5:10; 10:4; 2Sa 19:26

sitting.

19:4; Joh 4:6,34; 1Co 4:11,12; 2Co 11:27; Php 4:12,13

Art thou.

8,9; Ge 3:1-3; Nu 22:13,19; Mt 4:10; 16:23

It was. Heb. a word was. by the word.

1; 20:35; 1Th 4:15

an angel.

Nu 22:35; Jud 6:11,12; 13:3

But.

Ge 3:4,5; Isa 9:15; Jer 5:12,31; 23:14,17,32; 28:15,16

Eze 13:9,10,22; Mt 7:15; 24:24; Ro 16:18; 2Co 11:3,13-15; 2Pe 2:1

1Jo 4:1; Re 19:20

9; Ge 3:6; De 13:1,3,5; 18:20; Ac 4:19; 2Pe 2:18,19

the word of the Lord."A great clamour," says Dr. Kennicott, "has been raised against this part of history, on account of God's denouncing sentence on the true prophet by the mouth of the false prophet; but if we examine with attention the original words here, they will be found to signify either he who brought him back, or, whom he had brought back; for the very same words, {asher heshivo,} occur again, ver. 23, where they are now translated, whom he had brought back; and where they cannot be translated otherwise. This being the case, we are at liberty to consider the words of the Lord as delivered to the true prophet, thus brought back; and then the sentence is pronounced by God himself, calling to him out of heaven, as in Ge 22:11. And that this doom was thus pronounced by God, not by the false prophet, we are assured in ver. 26. 'The Lord hath delivered him unto the lion, according to the word of the Lord, which He spake unto him.' Josephus [and also the Arabic] asserts, that the sentence was declared by God to the true prophet."

Nu 23:5,16; 24:4,16-24; Mt 7:22; Joh 11:51; 1Co 13:2

Thus saith.

17; Ge 3:7; Es 6:13; Jer 2:19; Ga 1:8,9

thou hast disobeyed.

Le 10:3; Nu 20:12,24; 1Sa 4:18; 13:13,14; 15:19,22-24; 2Sa 6:7

2Sa 12:9-11; 24:13; Re 3:19

eaten.

of the.

carcase.

30; 14:13; 2Ch 21:19,20; Isa 14:18-20; Jer 22:18,19

a lion.

20:36; 2Ki 2:24; Pr 22:13; 26:13; Am 5:19; 1Co 11:31,32

1Pe 4:17,18

the man.

Le 10:3; 2Sa 12:10,14; Ps 119:120; Pr 11:31; Eze 9:6; 1Co 11:30

Heb 12:28,29; 1Pe 4:17

torn. Heb. broken. which he spake.

the lion had.All here was supernatural. The lion, though he had killed the man, yet, contrary to his nature, did not devour him, nor tear the ass, nor meddle with the travellers that passed by; while the ass stood quietly by, not fearing the lion, nor betaking himself to flight: both stood as guardians of the fallen prophet, till this extraordinary intelligence was carried into the city which rendered the miracle the more illustrious and plainly shewed that this event did not happen by chance. This concatenation of miracles marked the death of the man of God as a Divine rebuke for his disobedience in eating bread at idolatrous Beth-el; and here we see, as in various other cases, that "often judgment begins at the house of God." The true prophet, for suffering himself to be seduced by the old prophet, and for receiving that as a revelation from God which was opposed to the revelation which himself had received, and which was confirmed by so many miracles, is slain by a lion, and his body deprived of the burial of his fathers; while the wicked king and the fallen prophet are both permitted to live.

17:4,6; Le 10:2,5; Job 38:11; Ps 148:7,8; Jer 5:22,23

Da 3:22,27,28; 6:22-24; Ac 16:26; Heb 11:33,34

torn. Heb. broken.

mourned over.

14:13; Jer 22:18; Ac 8:2

lay my bones.

Nu 23:10; Ps 26:9; Ec 8:10; Lu 16:22,23

the saying.

2; 2Ki 23:16-19

the houses.

12:29,31; Le 26:30

in the cities.