1 Kings 14:9

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁷Go, tell Jeroboam that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'I raised you up from among the people and appointed you ruler over My people Israel. ⁸I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you were not like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes. ⁹You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and cast images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.¹⁰Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male in Israel, both slave and free; I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns up dung until it is gone! ¹¹Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air. For the LORD has spoken.' ¹²As for you, get up and go home. When your feet enter the city, the child will die. ¹³All Israel will mourn for him and bury him, for this is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who shall come to the grave, because only in him has the LORD, the God of Israel, found any good in the house of Jeroboam. ¹⁴Moreover, the LORD will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day-yes, even today! ¹⁵For the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger. ¹⁶So He will give Israel over on account of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit."

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hast done: 1 Kings 14:16, 1 Kings 12:28, 1 Kings 13:33, 1 Kings 13:34, 1 Kings 15:34, 1 Kings 16:31

thou hast gone: Deuteronomy 32:16, Deuteronomy 32:17, Deuteronomy 32:21, Judges 5:8, 2 Chronicles 11:15, Psalms 106:19, Psalms 106:20, Psalms 115:4-8, Isaiah 44:9-20, Jeremiah 10:14-16

to provoke: 1 Kings 14:22, Deuteronomy 9:8-16, Deuteronomy 9:24, 2 Kings 21:3, 2 Kings 23:26, 2 Chronicles 33:6, Psalms 78:40, Psalms 78:56, Psalms 106:29, Jeremiah 7:9, Jeremiah 7:10, Ezekiel 8:3, Ezekiel 8:17, 1 Corinthians 10:22

cast me: Nehemiah 9:26, Psalms 50:17, Ezekiel 23:35

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 14:15 - provoking 1 Kings 15:29 - he left not 1 Kings 15:30 - the sins 1 Kings 16:25 - did worse 1 Kings 16:30 - above 1 Kings 22:52 - and in the way 2 Chronicles 13:8 - with you golden 2 Chronicles 21:11 - caused 2 Chronicles 24:18 - And they left Jeremiah 32:18 - recompensest Ezekiel 23:5 - Aholah

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But hast done evil above all that were before thee,.... Not only above David, but above Saul, who never gave into idolatry, yea, even above Solomon, who, though he connived at idolatry, and might be guilty of it in some instances, yet did not attempt to draw his people into it; and if this was the latter end of Jeroboam's reign, which is probable, Rehoboam and Abijam might be both dead; and though they were blameworthy in some things, yet not so bad as Jeroboam; though perhaps this may respect only such who had been kings of Israel before him:

for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger; the two calves of gold; for however he might colour things over, and pretend he did not look upon these as gods, but as representations of God, and that he did not worship them, but God by them, yet the Lord considered it as idolatry, than which nothing is more provoking to him:

and hast cast me behind thy back; as unworthy of his regard; or my worship, as the Targum, which he neglected, and showed no concern for.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Above all that were before thee - i. e., above all previous rulers of the people, whether Judges or kings. Hereto none of the rulers of Israel had set up the idolatrous worship of ephod, teraphim, and the like Judges 18:17, as a substitute for the true religion, or sought to impose an idolatrous system on the nation. Gideon’s ephod “became a snare” contrary to his intention Judges 8:27. Solomon’s high places were private - built for the use of his wives, and not designed to attract the people. Jeroboam was the first ruler who set himself to turn the Israelites away from the true worship, and established a poor counterfeit of it, which he strove to make, and succeeded in making, the religion of the great mass of his subjects.

And hast cast me behind thy back - A very strong and very rare expression, occurring again only in Ezekiel 23:35; where it is said of the Jews generally, shortly before the captivity. The expressions in the marginal references are similar but less fearful.