So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word He had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite. So the king did not listen to the peopleThis phrase refers to King Rehoboam's decision to ignore the advice of the elders and instead follow the counsel of the younger men, leading to the division of the kingdom. This decision highlights the importance of wise counsel and the consequences of pride and arrogance. The people's request for lighter burdens was reasonable, reflecting the heavy taxation and labor imposed by Solomon. Rehoboam's failure to heed their plea resulted in the loss of ten tribes, fulfilling the prophecy of division. and indeed this turn of events was from the LORD
This indicates divine sovereignty and purpose behind the political and social upheaval. It underscores the biblical theme that God can use human decisions, even those made in error, to accomplish His divine will. This aligns with the broader biblical narrative where God uses both righteous and unrighteous actions to fulfill His plans, as seen in Joseph's story in Genesis 50:20. to fulfill the word He had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat
This refers to the prophecy given to Jeroboam by the prophet Ahijah, where God promised Jeroboam ten tribes of Israel due to Solomon's idolatry and disobedience. It highlights the faithfulness of God in keeping His word and the inevitability of His prophetic declarations. Jeroboam's rise to power was not merely a political maneuver but a fulfillment of divine prophecy. through Ahijah the Shilonite
Ahijah was a prophet from Shiloh, a significant religious center in Israel's history, known for housing the Ark of the Covenant before the temple was built in Jerusalem. His role as a prophet underscores the importance of prophetic voices in guiding and shaping Israel's history. The mention of Ahijah connects this event to earlier biblical narratives where prophets played crucial roles in communicating God's will, such as Samuel with Saul and David. Persons / Places / Events 1. RehoboamThe son of Solomon and king of Judah, whose decision not to listen to the people's request led to the division of the kingdom. 2. JeroboamThe son of Nebat, who was promised by God through Ahijah the prophet that he would rule over ten tribes of Israel. 3. Ahijah the ShiloniteA prophet who delivered God's message to Jeroboam about the division of the kingdom. 4. The LORDThe sovereign God who orchestrated the events to fulfill His word. 5. The Division of the KingdomThe event where Israel was divided into two kingdoms, Israel and Judah, as a result of Rehoboam's decision. Teaching Points God's Sovereignty in Human AffairsDespite human decisions, God's purposes will ultimately prevail. This should encourage believers to trust in God's overarching plan. The Importance of Wise CounselRehoboam's failure to heed wise counsel led to disastrous consequences. Believers should seek and value godly wisdom in decision-making. Consequences of Pride and ArroganceRehoboam's prideful response to the people's request resulted in division. Humility and a listening heart are crucial for leadership and unity. Fulfillment of God's WordGod's promises and prophecies are sure and will come to pass. This should strengthen our faith in His Word and promises. The Role of ProphetsProphets like Ahijah played a crucial role in communicating God's will. Today, believers should be attentive to God's Word as revealed in Scripture. Bible Study Questions 1. How does Rehoboam's decision reflect the importance of seeking and following wise counsel in our own lives? 2. In what ways can we see God's sovereignty at work in the events of our personal lives, similar to how He orchestrated the division of the kingdom? 3. How can the account of Rehoboam and Jeroboam encourage us to trust in the fulfillment of God's promises today? 4. What are some practical steps we can take to ensure we are listening to and valuing godly wisdom in our decision-making processes? 5. How does understanding the role of prophets in the Old Testament enhance our appreciation for the authority and reliability of Scripture today? Connections to Other Scriptures 1 Kings 11:29-31This passage describes Ahijah's prophecy to Jeroboam, foretelling the division of the kingdom, which is fulfilled in 1 Kings 12:15. Proverbs 19:21This verse highlights the sovereignty of God in human plans, similar to how God's purpose prevailed in Rehoboam's decision. Isaiah 46:10This scripture speaks of God's ability to declare the end from the beginning, emphasizing His control over historical events. People Adoniram, Adoram, Ahijah, Benjamin, Dan, David, Israelites, Jeroboam, Jesse, Levi, Levites, Nebat, Penuel, Rehoboam, Shemaiah, SolomonPlaces Bethel, Dan, Egypt, Jerusalem, Penuel, ShechemTopics Affairs, Ahijah, Ahi'jah, Cause, Didn't, Ear, Effect, Effected, Establish, Events, Fulfil, Fulfill, Hearken, Hearkened, Jeroboam, Jerobo'am, Listen, Nebat, Order, Perform, Purpose, Revolution, Saying, Shilonite, Shi'lonite, Spake, Spoke, Spoken, Turn, WhereforeDictionary of Bible Themes 1 Kings 12:15 1429 prophecy, OT fulfilment
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4945 history 1 Kings 12:1-15 5010 conscience, matters of 1 Kings 12:1-17 7233 Israel, northern kingdom 1 Kings 12:1-19 7236 Israel, united kingdom 1 Kings 12:1-24 5366 king
7245 Judah, kingdom of 1 Kings 12:8-15 8410 decision-making, examples 1 Kings 12:13-15 5779 advice Library How to Split a Kingdom
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king. 2. And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard of it (for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt); 3. That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying, 4. Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy ScripturePolitical Religion
'Then Jeroboam built Shechera in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel. 26. And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David: 27. If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah. 28. Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture "This Thing is from Me"
"Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me."--1 Kings 12:24. IT IS VERY DELIGHTFUL to read a history in which God is made prominent. How sadly deficient we are of such histories of our own English nation! Yet surely there is no story that is more full of God than the record of the doings of our British race. Cowper, in one of his poems, shows the parallel between us and the house of Israel, …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 42: 1896 The Hebrews and the Philistines --Damascus
THE ISRAELITES IN THE LAND OF CANAAN: THE JUDGES--THE PHILISTINES AND THE HEBREW KINGDOM--SAUL, DAVID, SOLOMON, THE DEFECTION OF THE TEN TRIBES--THE XXIst EGYPTIAN DYNASTY--SHESHONQ OR SHISHAK DAMASCUS. The Hebrews in the desert: their families, clans, and tribes--The Amorites and the Hebrews on the left bank of the Jordan--The conquest of Canaan and the native reaction against the Hebrews--The judges, Ehud, Deborah, Jerubbaal or Gideon and the Manassite supremacy; Abimelech, Jephihdh. The Philistines, …
G. Maspero—History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 6 How God Works in the Hearts of Men.
1. Connection of this chapter with the preceding. Augustine's similitude of a good and bad rider. Question answered in respect to the devil. 2. Question answered in respect to God and man. Example from the history of Job. The works of God distinguished from the works of Satan and wicked men. 1. By the design or end of acting. How Satan acts in the reprobate. 2. How God acts in them. 3. Old Objection, that the agency of God in such cases is referable to prescience or permission, not actual operation. …
John Calvin—The Institutes of the Christian Religion Use to be Made of the Doctrine of Providence.
Sections. 1. Summary of the doctrine of Divine Providence. 1. It embraces the future and the past. 2. It works by means, without means, and against means. 3. Mankind, and particularly the Church, the object of special care. 4. The mode of administration usually secret, but always just. This last point more fully considered. 2. The profane denial that the world is governed by the secret counsel of God, refuted by passages of Scripture. Salutary counsel. 3. This doctrine, as to the secret counsel of …
John Calvin—The Institutes of the Christian Religion The Upbringing of Jewish Children
The tenderness of the bond which united Jewish parents to their children appears even in the multiplicity and pictorialness of the expressions by which the various stages of child-life are designated in the Hebrew. Besides such general words as "ben" and "bath"--"son" and "daughter"--we find no fewer than nine different terms, each depicting a fresh stage of life. The first of these simply designates the babe as the newly--"born"--the "jeled," or, in the feminine, "jaldah"--as in Exodus 2:3, 6, 8. …
Alfred Edersheim—Sketches of Jewish Social Life The Instrumentality of the Wicked Employed by God, While He Continues Free from Every Taint.
1. The carnal mind the source of the objections which are raised against the Providence of God. A primary objection, making a distinction between the permission and the will of God, refuted. Angels and men, good and bad, do nought but what has been decreed by God. This proved by examples. 2. All hidden movements directed to their end by the unseen but righteous instigation of God. Examples, with answers to objections. 3. These objections originate in a spirit of pride and blasphemy. Objection, that …
John Calvin—The Institutes of the Christian Religion The Twelve Minor Prophets.
1. By the Jewish arrangement, which places together the twelve minor prophets in a single volume, the chronological order of the prophets as a whole is broken up. The three greater prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, stand in the true order of time. Daniel began to prophesy before Ezekiel, but continued, many years after him. The Jewish arrangement of the twelve minor prophets is in a sense chronological; that is, they put the earlier prophets at the beginning, and the later at the end of the …
E. P. Barrows—Companion to the Bible Of Civil Government.
OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT. This chapter consists of two principal heads,--I. General discourse on the necessity, dignity, and use of Civil Government, in opposition to the frantic proceedings of the Anabaptists, sec. 1-3. II. A special exposition of the three leading parts of which Civil Government consists, sec. 4-32. The first part treats of the function of Magistrates, whose authority and calling is proved, sec. 4-7. Next, the three Forms of civil government are added, sec. 8. Thirdly, Consideration …
John Calvin—The Institutes of the Christian Religion Travelling in Palestine --Roads, Inns, Hospitality, Custom-House Officers, Taxation, Publicans
It was the very busiest road in Palestine, on which the publican Levi Matthew sat at the receipt of "custom," when our Lord called him to the fellowship of the Gospel, and he then made that great feast to which he invited his fellow-publicans, that they also might see and hear Him in Whom he had found life and peace (Luke 5:29). For, it was the only truly international road of all those which passed through Palestine; indeed, it formed one of the great highways of the world's commerce. At the time …
Alfred Edersheim—Sketches of Jewish Social Life The Figurative Language of Scripture.
1. When the psalmist says: "The Lord God is a sun and shield" (Psa. 84:11), he means that God is to all his creatures the source of life and blessedness, and their almighty protector; but this meaning he conveys under the figure of a sun and a shield. When, again, the apostle James says that Moses is read in the synagogues every Sabbath-day (Acts 15:21), he signifies the writings of Moses under the figure of his name. In these examples the figure lies in particular words. But it may be embodied …
E. P. Barrows—Companion to the Bible Kings
The book[1] of Kings is strikingly unlike any modern historical narrative. Its comparative brevity, its curious perspective, and-with some brilliant exceptions--its relative monotony, are obvious to the most cursory perusal, and to understand these things is, in large measure, to understand the book. It covers a period of no less than four centuries. Beginning with the death of David and the accession of Solomon (1 Kings i., ii.) it traverses his reign with considerable fulness (1 Kings iii.-xi.), …
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