All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.
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All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.
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And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.
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And all Israel buried him, and made lamentation for him; according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke by the hand of His servant Ahijah the prophet.
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- 1 Kings 14:13 All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ki 14:18 And they buried him; and all Israel…
1Ki 14:18 And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.
Ver. 18. And all Israel mourned.] See 1Ki 14:13.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how…
And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred,.... As he did with Rehoboam, Kg1 14:30, and with Abijam his son, who was an more than a match for him, see Ch2 13:1.
and how he reigned; over the people of Israel, whether wisely, and justly, and in clemency, or not:
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behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel; not in that canonical book of Scripture, so called, for in that there is very little account of the reign of Jeroboam; but in the annals and diaries of the kings of Israel, written by persons appointed for that purpose, and out of which it is generally thought that inspired writers, by divine direction, took what was thought proper to be transmitted to future times. So with the Romans, from their very beginning to the times of Mutius, all the events of every year were committed to writing by the order of the Pontifex Maximus, and lay open to be read by the people in common; and these, as Tully (l) says, were what are called annals.
(l) De Oratore, l. 2. c. 34.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Mourned - And justly: not only for the loss…
Mourned - And justly: not only for the loss of an hopeful prince, but because his death plucked up the floodgates, at which an inundation of judgments broke in.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 1Ki 14:18. All Israel mourned for him — And…
1Ki 14:18. All Israel mourned for him — And justly: not only for the loss of a hopeful prince, but because his death plucked up the flood-gates at which an inundation of judgments broke in. According to the word of the Lord by Ahijah — Thus by accomplishing the predictions of his prophet concerning the death and burial of the child, and the lamentation which the people made for him, God confirmed all the rest of his threatenings against the house of Jeroboam and the people of Israel.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 18. and they buried him] The R.V. transposes ‘all…
18. and they buried him] The R.V. transposes ‘all Israel,’ putting it before ‘buried,’ and thus the sentence assumes an English form. The Hebrew puts ‘all Israel’ at the end of the clause.
by the hand of] A common Hebrew form for the simple ‘by.’ Cf. 1Ki_8:53 above.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And they buried him see on ver. 13; and…
And they buried him see on ver. 13; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by the hand (see on 1Ki_2:25) of his servant Ahijah the prophet, it was a token of the righteous judgment of God that the same prophet who announced Jeroboam"s exaltation predicted his fall.
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