TSK - 1 KINGS 12

  1  The Israelites, assembled at Shechem to crown Rehoboam, by
    Jeroboam make a suit of relaxation unto him.
 6  Rehoboam, refusing the old men's counsel, answers them
    roughly.
16  Ten tribes revolting, kill Adoram, and make Rehoboam flee.
21  Rehoboam, raising an army, is forbidden by Shemaiah.
25  Jeroboam strengthens himself by cities;
26  and by the idolatry of the two calves.


VERSE 1
- Rehoboam.  See on ch.
   * 1Ki 11:43 2Ch 10:1-19
- Shechem.
   * Ge 12:6
- Sichem.
   * Ge 33:18,19 Jos 20:7; 24:1,32 Jud 9:1 Ps 60:6 Ac 7:16
- Sychem.


VERSE 2 
 - Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
   * 1Ki 11:26-31,40 2Ch 10:2,3

VERSE 3


VERSE 4 
 - our yoke.
   * 1Ki 4:7,20,22,23,25; 9:15,22,23 1Sa 8:11-18 2Ch 10:4,5 Mt 11:29,30
   * Mt 23:4 1Jo 5:3

VERSE 5


VERSE 6 
 - consulted.
   * 2Sa 16:20; 17:5 Job 12:12; 32:7 Pr 27:10 Jer 42:2-5; 43:2


VERSE 7 
 - If thou wilt.
   * 2Ch 10:6,7 Pr 15:1 Mr 10:43,44 Php 2:7-11
- speak good.
   * :13 2Sa 15:3-6 Ec 10:4 Zec 1:13

VERSE 8
    * 2Ch 10:8; 25:15,16 Pr 1:2-5,25,30; 19:20; 25:12 Ec 10:2,3

VERSE 9
    * 1Ki 22:6-8 2Sa 17:5,6 2Ch 10:9; 18:5-7


VERSE 10 
 - Thus shalt thou.
   * 2Sa 17:7-13
- My little finger.
  A proverbial mode of expression:  "My little finger is thicker
  than my father's thigh."  As much as the thigh surpasses the
  little finger in thickness, so much does my power exceed that
  of my father; and the use I shall make of it to oppress and
  tax you shall be in proportion.

   * 2Ch 10:10,11 Pr 10:14; 18:6,7; 28:25; 29:23 Isa 47:6


VERSE 11 
 - I will add.
   * Ex 1:13,14; 5:5-9,18 1Sa 8:18 2Ch 16:10 Isa 58:6 Jer 27:11
   * Jer 28:13,14
- but I will chastise.
  Should you rebel or become disaffected, my father's whip shall
  be a scorpion in my hand.  His was chastisement, mine shall be
  punishment.  Celsius and Hiller conjecture that {ƒkrabbim}
  denotes a thorny kind of shrub, whose prickles are of a
  venomous nature, called by the Arabs scorpion thorns, from the
  exquisite pain which they inflict.  But the Chaldee renders it
  {margenin,} and the Syriac {moragyai,} i.e., [              ,]
  scourges; and in the parallel place of Chronicles the Arabic
  has {saut,} a scourge.  Isidore, and after him Calmet and
  others, assert that the scorpion was a sort of severe whip,
  the lashes of which were armed with knots or points that sunk
  into and tore the flesh.

- scorpions.
   * :14 Eze 2:6 Re 9:3-10


VERSE 12 
 - Come to me again.
   * :5 2Ch 10:12-14


VERSE 13 
 - answered.
   * 1Ki 20:6-11 Ge 42:7,30 Ex 5:2; 10:28 Jud 12:1-6 1Sa 20:10,30,31
   * 1Sa 25:10,11 2Sa 19:43 Pr 10:11,32; 15:1; 18:23 Ec 10:12
   * Jas 17 3:17
- roughly.  Heb. hardly.
   * Ge 16:6
- forsook.
   * Pr 13:20


VERSE 14 
 - the counsel.
   * 2Ch 22:4,5 Es 1:16-21; 2:2-4 Pr 12:5 Isa 19:11-13 Da 6:7
- My father made.
   * :10,11 Pr 13:10; 16:18; 17:14 Ec 7:8 Jas 3:14-18; 4:1,2


VERSE 15 
 - the cause.
  The cause of all this confusion and anarchy was Rehoboam's
  folly, cruelty, and despotic tyranny, and this was certainly
  not "from the Lord," nor does the original text speak this
  doctrine.  See an elucidation of a similar passage at 2 Sa
  1 24:1.  It says, {sibbah,} (from {savav,} to turn, change,)
  "the change or Revolution was from the Lord;" which is
  consistent with all the preceding declarations.  God stirred
  up the people to revolt from a man who had neither skill nor
  humanity to govern them.  God serves his own wise and
  righteous purpose by the imprudences and iniquities of men,
  and snares sinners in the work of their own hands.  "He maketh
  the wrath of man to praise him."

   * :24; 22:23 De 2:30 Jud 14:4 2Ch 10:15; 22:7; 25:16,20 Ps 5:10
   * Am 3:6 Ac 2:23; 4:28
- that he might.  See on ch.
   * 1Ki 11:11,29-38 1Sa 15:29 2Sa 17:14 2Ki 9:36; 10:10 Isa 14:13-17
   * Isa 46:10,11 Da 4:35 Joh 19:23,24,28,29,32-37 Ac 3:17
   * Ac 13:27-29


VERSE 16 
 - What portion.  See on
   * 2Sa 20:1 2Ch 10:16
- to your tents.
   * 1Ki 22:17,36
- now see.
   * 1Ki 11:13,34,36,39 2Sa 7:15,16 Ps 2:1-6; 76:10; 89:29-37; 132:17
   * Isa 7:2,6,7; 9:6,7 Jer 23:5,6; 33:15,16,21 Lu 19:14,27
- So Israel.
   * Jud 8:35 2Sa 15:13; 16:11


VERSE 17 
 - the children.
   * 1Ki 11:13,36 2Ch 10:17; 11:13-17


VERSE 18 
 - Adoram.
   * 1Ki 4:6; 5:14
- Adoniram.
   * 2Sa 20:24 2Ch 10:18
- Hadoram.  all Israel.
   * Ex 17:4 Nu 14:10 2Ch 24:21 Ac 5:26; 7:57,58
- made speed.  Heb. strengthened himself.  flee to Jerusalem.
   * 1Ki 20:18-20 Pr 28:1,2 Am 2:16


VERSE 19 
 - Israel.
   * 1Sa 10:19 2Ki 17:21 2Ch 10:19; 13:5-7,17 Isa 7:17
- rebelled.  or, fell away.
   * Heb 6:6
- unto this day.  See on
   * Jos 4:9


VERSE 20 
 - and made him.
   * 1Sa 10:24 Ho 8:4
- none that followed.  See on ver.
   * :17; 11:13,32 Ho 11:12


VERSE 21 
 - when Rehoboam.
   * 2Ch 11:1-3
- an hundred.
   * 1Ch 21:5 2Ch 14:8,11; 17:14-19 Pr 21:30,31


VERSE 22 
 - Shemaiah.
   * 2Ch 11:2; 12:5,7
- the man.
   * 1Ki 13:1,4,5,11; 17:18,24
- See on
   * De 33:1 2Ki 4:16,22,25,27 1Ti 6:11

VERSE 23


VERSE 24 
 - Ye shall not go up.
   * Nu 14:42 2Ch 11:4; 25:7,8; 28:9-13
- for this thing.  See on ver.
   * :15; 11:29-38 Ho 8:4
- They hearkened.
   * 2Ch 25:10; 28:13-15


VERSE 25 
 - built.
   * 1Ki 9:15,17,18; 15:17; 16:24 2Ch 11:5-12
- Shechem.  See on ver.
   * :1 Jud 9:1,45-49
- Penuel.
   * Ge 32:30,31 Jud 8:8,17


VERSE 26 
 - said in his heart.
   * Ps 14:1 Mr 2:6-8 Lu 7:39
- Now shall.
   * 1Ki 11:38 1Sa 27:1 2Ch 20:20 Isa 7:9 Jer 38:18-21 Joh 11:47-50
   * Joh 12:10,11,19 Ac 4:16,17


VERSE 27 
 - go up.
   * 1Ki 8:29,30,44; 11:32 De 12:5-7,14; 16:2,6
- and they shall.
   * Ge 12:12,13; 26:7 Pr 29:25 1Co 1:19,20


VERSE 28 
 - took counsel.  See on ver.
   * :8,9 Ex 1:10 Isa 30:1
- two calves of gold.
  He invented a political religion, and instituted feasts in his
  own times, different from those appointed by Jehovah; gave the
  people certain objects of adoration, and pretended to think
  that it would be both inconvenient and oppressive to them to
  go up to Jerusalem to worship.  These calves were doubtless of
  the same kind as the calf which was set up by Aaron; and it is
  remarkable, that in pointing them out to the people he should
  use the same words that Aaron used on that occasion, when they
  must have heard what terrible judgments fell upon their
  forefathers for this idolatry.  Solomon's idolatry, however,
  had prepared the people for Jeroboam's abominations.

   * Ex 20:4 De 4:14-18 2Ki 10:29; 17:16 2Ch 11:15 Ho 8:4-7; 10:5,6
- It is too much.
   * Isa 30:10 2Pe 2:19
- behold.  See on
   * Ex 32:4,8


VERSE 29 
 - Beth-el.
   * Ge 12:8; 28:19; 35:1 Ho 4:15
- Dan.
   * Ge 14:14 De 34:1 Jud 18:29-31; 20:1 2Ki 10:29 Jer 8:16 Am 8:14


VERSE 30 
 - became a sin.
   * 1Ki 13:34 2Ki 10:31; 17:21


VERSE 31 
 - an house.
   * 1Ki 13:24,32 De 24:15 Eze 16:25 Ho 12:11
- priests.
   * 1Ki 13:33 Nu 3:10 2Ki 17:32 2Ch 11:14,15; 13:9 Eze 44:6-8


VERSE 32 
 - like unto.
   * 1Ki 8:2,5 Le 23:33,34-44 Nu 29:12-40 Eze 43:8 Mt 15:8,9
- offered upon the altar.  or, went up to the altar.
  sacrificing.  or, to sacrifice.  he placed.
   * Am 7:10-13


VERSE 33 
 - offered upon the altar.  or, went up to the altar, etc.
   * :32
- in the month.
   * Nu 15:39 Ps 106:39 Isa 29:13 Mt 15:6 Mr 7:13
- he offered.
   * 1Ki 13:1 1Sa 13:12 2Ch 26:6
- and burnt incense.  Heb. to burn incense.



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