1 Kings 11:27

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

²⁶Now Solomon's servant, Jeroboam son of Nebat, was an Ephraimite from Zeredah, and his mother was a widow named Zeruah. Jeroboam rebelled against Solomon, ²⁷and this is the account of his rebellion against the king. Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the gap in the wall of the city of his father David.²⁸Now Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor. So when Solomon noticed that the young man was industrious, he put him in charge of the whole labor force of the house of Joseph. ²⁹During that time, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met Jeroboam on the road as he was going out of Jerusalem. Now Ahijah had wrapped himself in a new cloak, and the two of them were alone in the open field. ³⁰And Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing, tore it into twelve pieces, ³¹and said to Jeroboam, "Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and I will give you ten tribes. ³²But one tribe will remain for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel. ³³For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Molech the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon's father David did. ³⁴Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon's hand, because I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David My servant, whom I chose because he kept My commandments and statutes. ³⁵But I will take ten tribes of the kingdom from the hand of his son and give them to you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

lifted up: 2 Samuel 20:21, Proverbs 30:32, Isaiah 26:11

Solomon: 1 Kings 9:15, 1 Kings 9:24

repaired: Heb. closed, Amos 9:11

the breaches: Nehemiah 4:7, Psalms 60:2, Isaiah 22:9, Ezekiel 13:5

the city: 2 Samuel 5:7

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 5:9 - Millo 2 Kings 12:5 - let them repair 2 Kings 12:20 - the house of Millo 1 Chronicles 11:8 - Millo 2 Chronicles 32:5 - Millo

Cross-References

Genesis 11:1
Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.

Genesis 11:11
And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:29
And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram's wife was named Sarai, and Nahor's wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

Genesis 11:31
And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.

Genesis 12:4
So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

Genesis 14:12
They also carried off Abram's nephew Lot and his possessions, since he was living in Sodom.

2 Peter 2:7
and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king,.... The occasion of it, his being advanced to some posts under Solomon, which elated him, and what passed between him and the prophet Ahijah, after related:

Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father: in the oversight of which, it is supposed by the Jews, he employed this man, who reproached him for doing these works; building an house in Millo for Pharaoh's daughter, and stopping up the passage to the city of David, and the people's access thither upon occasion.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Millo was probably fortified in Solomon’s twenty-fourth or twenty-fifth year.