27 апр. 2024 г. · Solomon's great kingdom was decimated. Their nation was divided, and the great riches of their treasuries were gone. · It is so easy for us to ...

And the Lord shall smite Israel as a reed is shaken in the water Either by the wind or by the stream; and may signify the fluctuating and uncertain condition ...

This imagery denotes fragility and instability, serving as a warning that only through true devotion can a kingdom stand firm.

The LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers.

Here we are told how God proceeded in his controversy with him; for when God judges he will overcome, and sinners shall either bend or break before him.

David Guzik commentary on 1 Kings 14 explains how the kingdom of Rehoboam declines under his reign, before he, as well as Jeroboam, king of Israel, die.

1. God calls himself the Lord God of Israel. Though Israel had forsaken God, God had not cast them off, nor given them a bill of divorce for their whoredoms. He ...

Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of ...

The verse speaks of the consequences of the people's disobedience and idolatry, foretelling their punishment and dispersion.

According to verse 14, God's punishment on the family of Jeroboam would happen very soon. Now verse 15 states that additional punishment will come upon all ...