Bible History - Old Testament

- 83- in mind the long-established and great municipal fights and liberties which made every city with its district, under its E ...

- 84- Israel. Before quitting this subject, these two remarks may be allowed, how wonderfully, and we may add, unexpectedly, doc ...

- 85- The next notice concerns the family relations of Rehoboam. It appears that he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines (thi ...

- 86- This idolatry was, indeed, not new in Israel - though it had probably not been practiced to the same extent. But in additi ...

- 87- CHAPTER 11 : Political measures of Jeroboam — the golden calves — the new priesthood and the new festival — the man of Elo ...

- 88- Appealing, perhaps at the formal consecration of these symbols, to the very words which Aaron had used (Exodus 32:4), Jero ...

- 89- appointed, symbolical, and forming a unity of which no part could be touched without impairing the whole. It was a movemen ...

- 90- back, the Hand of the LORD held it. Some mysterious stroke had fallen upon him; and while he thus stood, himself a sign, t ...

- 91- course, a much deeper and symbolical meaning. They indicated that Bethel lay under the ban; that no fellowship of any kind ...

- 92- thither. Upon this the old prophet addressed him as a colleague, and falsely pretended, not indeed that Jehovah, but that ...

- 93- the side of that in which the "man of God" rested. This was to be a dying testimony to "the man of God" that his embassy o ...

- 94- him as simply a false prophet, whose object it was to seduce "the man of God," either from jealousy or to destroy the effe ...

- 95- prescribed, he pronounced his own sentence in case of disobedience. Besides, the main idea underlying the Divine employmen ...

- 96- true piety finds its respectful acknowledgment, even among a people so sunken as was Israel at that time. If it were neces ...

- 97- hope seemed fast ebbing. None with the father in those hours of darkness -neither counselor, courtier, prophet, nor priest ...

- 98- Only two persons are in this picture, Jehovah and Jeroboam - all else is in the far background. That is enough; and now on ...

- 99- CHAPTER 12 : Accession of Abijah — his idolatry — war between Judah and Israel — Abijah’s address to Israel and victory — ...

- 100- for God's faithfulness to His covenant-promises (1 Kings 15:4, 5). But, although such was the state of religion, Abijah n ...

- 101- vain Jeroboam, by a cleverly executed movement, attacked Judah both in front and rear. The terror excited by finding them ...

- 102- This was one of the border fortresses which Jeroboam had built (2 Chronicles 11:8). The natural capabilities of the place ...