1 Reis 14

1 Reis 14

Meyer - 1 Kings 14:6 I am sent to thee with heavy tidings. How foolish! Jeroboam thought that the old prophet could penetrate the vail that hid the future, but not the disguise in which his wife wished to conceal herself. As we might have expected, the aged prophet’s inner sight read her heart. From God no secrets are hid. Immediately on His accosting her by her name there came the dread announcement of inevitable disaster. We must not hesitate to unfold all the consequences of sin. As watchmen on the walls, we are bound to tell men of the certain fearful looking for of fiery indignation which shall devour the transgressors. None of us should flinch from declaring the whole counsel of God. We should specially insist on the guilt side of sin. Not only that it is a misfortune, a mistake, an error, a disease, a tyranny; but a crime. The sinner is a criminal, who has incurred the just wrath and anger of a holy God: for which he must suffer a due recompense. Oh for more tenderness that we may with tears warn men of their doom! We are so self-possessed, so stolid; we need to ask that our eyes, like Jeremiah’s, should be fountains of tears, that we might weep day and night. If the tidings are heavy, let us first feel their pressure on our own hearts; let us bend over the regions of despair and darkness, and hear the bitter weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth, and come back to warn our brethren, lest they also come to that place of torment. Though it was with fear and much trembling that Paul preached the Gospel, yet he did not shun to declare the whole counsel of God. And while we go to men with the good tidings of salvation, we must not withhold the heavy tidings from those who persist in unbelief. 1 Kings 14:7 “Go, say to Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the LORD God of Israel, “Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over My people Israel, Because I exalted you: 1Ki 12:24 16:2 1Sa 2:27-30 15:16 2Sa 12:7,8 1 Kings 14 Resources - multiple sermons and commentaries Related Passage: 2 Peter 1:21+ for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. AHIJAH BEGINS A LENGTHY PROPHECY Go, say to Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the LORD God of Israel, “Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over My people Israel (context = 10 northern tribes) - God states that it was He who raised up Jeroboam from his humble position as an overseer. The divine indictment was directed directly at Jeroboam. Ahijah's prophecy from Yahweh continues for 10 verses from 1Ki 14:7-16. He begins not with the bad news, but with an explanation of why the news would be bad. As Ahijah will explain, it has to do with divine privileges that were squandered by willful disobedience. Ahijah's words are Jehovah's words reflecting His omniscience, omnipotence and foreknowledge, truth that can either comfort the afflicted or afflict the comfortable. These are words of prophecy and not written as an addition after the events predicted transpired! Believe it or not! Was there to be no room for repentance? The moving finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on; nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line; Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.13 1 Kings 14:8 and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you–yet you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only that which was right in My sight; tore the kingdom: 1Ki 11:30,31 my servant David: 1Ki 3:14 11:33-38 15:5 2Ch 17:3 28:1 Ac 13:22,36 1 Kings 14 Resources - multiple sermons and commentaries THE CONTRAST BETWEEN JEROBOAM AND DAVID And tore (qara) the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you - Jeroboam had received God's gift of the Northern Kingdom by grace and not be anything he did to merit that gift. HOUSE OF DAVID - 25x/25v - House of David refers to the dynasty of King David—his royal lineage, descendants, and the covenant promise God made to him. The House of David was central to messianic prophecy for the Messiah (God’s anointed one) would come from David’s royal line, David's house. 1 Sam. 20:16; 2 Sam. 3:1; 2 Sam. 3:6; 1 Ki. 12:19; 1 Ki. 12:20; 1 Ki. 12:26; 1 Ki. 13:2; 1 Ki. 14:8; 2 Ki. 17:21; 1 Chr. 17:24; 2 Chr. 8:11; 2 Chr. 10:19; 2 Chr. 21:7; Neh. 12:37; Ps. 122:5; Isa. 7:2; Isa. 7:13; Isa. 22:22; Jer. 21:12; Zech. 12:7; Zech. 12:8; Zech. 12:10; Zech. 12:12; Zech. 13:1; Lk. 1:69 Yet - The striking contrast. The contrast would be between Jeroboam and David. You have not been like My servant ('ebed) David, who kept (shamar) My commandments (mitsvah) and who followed (halak) Me with all his heart (lebab), to do only that which was right (yashar) in My sight - Yahweh compares (and contrasts) Jeroboam's behavior with that of His servant David. David was a type and an example to be followed (emulated) by all subsequent kings whether in either north or south. Note the grace and mercy of God to David who clearly was a sinner, but who God says followed Me with all his heart. THOUGHT - With David (and with all believers today) God is not looking for perfection, but He is looking for direction. He is looking for a broken and contrite spirit when we sin against Him (because we will!). We should never use this truth as an excused for our sin, but should continually seek (enabled by God's Spirit) to live sensibly, righteously and godly in this present age (Titus 2:12+). 1 Kings 14:9 you also have done more evil than all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me to anger, and have cast Me behind your back– NET 1 Kings 14:9 You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me. CSB 1 Kings 14:9 You behaved more wickedly than all who were before you. In order to provoke Me, you have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and cast images, but you have flung Me behind your back. ESV 1 Kings 14:9 but you have done evil above all who were before you and have gone and made for yourself other gods and metal images, provoking me to anger, and have cast me behind your back, NIV 1 Kings 14:9 You have done more evil than all who lived before you. You have made for yourself other gods, idols made of metal; you have provoked me to anger and thrust me behind your back. NLT 1 Kings 14:9 You have done more evil than all who lived before you. You have made other gods for yourself and have made me furious with your gold calves. And since you have turned your back on me, NRS 1 Kings 14:9 but you have done evil above all those who were before you and have gone and made for yourself other gods, and cast images, provoking me to anger, and have thrust me behind your back; NJB 1 Kings 14:9 you have done more evil than all your predecessors, you have gone and made yourself other gods, idols of cast metal, provoking my anger, and you have turned your back on me. NAB 1 Kings 14:9 You have done worse than all who preceded you: you have gone and made for yourself strange gods and molten images to provoke me; but me you have cast behind your back. YLT 1 Kings 14:9 and thou dost evil above all who have been before thee, and goest, and makest to thee other gods and molten images to provoke Me to anger, and Me thou hast cast behind thy back: you also have done more evil than all who were before you: 1Ki 14:16 12:28 13:33,34 15:34 16:31 have gone and made for yourself other gods: De 32:16,17,21 Jdg 5:8 2Ch 11:15 Ps 106:19,20 115:4-8 Isa 44:9-20 Jer 10:14-16 to provoke: 1Ki 14:22 De 9:8-16,24 2Ki 21:3 23:26 2Ch 33:6 Ps 78:40,56 106:29 Jer 7:9,10 Eze 8:3,17 1Co 10:22 cast me: Ne 9:26 Ps 50:17 Eze 23:35 1 Kings 14 Resources - multiple sermons and commentaries Related Passages: 1 Kings 11:31-33+ He said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces; for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and give you ten tribes 32 (but he will have one tribe, for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel), 33 because they have forsaken Me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon; and they have not walked in My ways, doing what is right in My sight and observing My statutes and My ordinances, as his father David did. TURNING FROM GOD TO IDOLS PROVOKING GOD'S ANGER you also have done more evil than all who were before you - This is a condemning characterization of Jeroboam's wicked reign. More evil than all who were before you must refer not only to the kings who had preceded Jeroboam, but to the cases of idolatry in the earlier days, e.g.the period of the Judges. The only significant idolatry prior to Judges was when Aaron made the golden calf. Bob