Deu 13:1-3, 1Ki 18:19-22, 22:6, Neh 6:12-14, Isa 9:15, 56:10-11 | TSK | STEP | Enticers to idolatry; how near soever unto thee; are to be stoned to death. Idolatrous cities are not to be spared. a prophet.That is, one pretending to the divine inspiration and authority of the prophetic office, or a dreamer of dreams, one who pretends that some deity has spoken to him in the night season, and giveth thee a sign, {oth,} what appears to be a miraculous proof of his mission, or a wonder, {mopheth,} some portentous sign, such as an eclipse, which he, who knew when it would happen, might predict to the people, who knew nothing of the matter, and thereby accredit his pretensions. But no pretended miracles must be admitted as a proof that the people might violate the first and great commandment. a dreamer.

Deuteronomy 13:1-3

1 Enticers to idolatry;

6 how near soever unto thee;

9 are to be stoned to death.

12 Idolatrous cities are not to be spared.

a prophet.That is, one pretending to the divine inspiration and authority of the prophetic office, or a dreamer of dreams, one who pretends that some deity has spoken to him in the night season, and giveth thee a sign, {oth,} what appears to be a miraculous proof of his mission, or a wonder, {mopheth,} some portentous sign, such as an eclipse, which he, who knew when it would happen, might predict to the people, who knew nothing of the matter, and thereby accredit his pretensions. But no pretended miracles must be admitted as a proof that the people might violate the first and great commandment.

1Ki 13:18; Isa 9:15; Jer 6:13; 23:11; Eze 13:2,3,23; Zec 13:4

Mt 7:15; 24:11; Lu 6:26; 2Pe 2:1; 1Jo 4:1

a dreamer.

Jer 23:25-28; 27:9; 29:8,24; *marg:

Zec 10:2

18:22; Ex 7:22; 1Ki 13:3; Jer 28:9; Mt 7:22,23; 24:24; 2Co 11:13-15

2Th 2:9-11; Re 13:13,14

hearken.

Isa 8:20; Ac 17:11; Eph 4:14; 1Jo 4:1

proveth.

8:2; Ps 66:10; 81:7; Mt 24:24; 1Co 11:19; 2Th 2:11; 1Jo 2:19; 4:4

Re 13:14

ye love the Lord your God.

6:5; 2Co 8:8

1 Kings 18:19-22

mount Carmel.Mount Carmel is situated north of Dora and south of Ptolemais or Acre, from which it is distant, according to Josephus, 120 stadia, or, according to Thevenot, 10 miles; one of its principal points advancing considerably into the Mediterranean, and forming an elevated promontory. It is described as a flattened cone, about 2,000 feet (some say 1,500) in height, very rocky, its sides steep and rugged, and the soil neither deep nor rich. Capt. Mangles says its is now quite barren, though at the north-eastern foot of it there are some pretty olive-grounds.

42,43; Jos 19:26; 1Sa 15:12; 2Ki 2:25; Jer 46:18; Am 1:2; 9:3

the prophets of Baal.

22:6; 2Pe 2:1; Re 19:20

prophets of the groves.

15:13; 16:33; 2Ki 13:6Though {ashairah} certainly denotes in some place a grove, yet it is equally certain, that in others, as here, it must signify an idol; and it is thought by learned men to be the same as Ashtoreth, or Astarte the Syrian Venus.

eat at Jezebel's table.

19:1,2; 2Ki 9:22; Re 2:20

gathered.

22:9

How long.

De 4:35; 2Ki 17:41; Zep 1:5; Mt 6:24; Lu 6:13; Ro 6:16-22

1Co 10:21,22; 2Co 6:14-16; Re 3:15,16

opinions. or, thoughts. if the Lord.

39; Ex 5:1,2; Jos 24:15,23,24; 1Sa 7:3; 1Ch 17:26; 2Ch 33:13

Ps 100:3

answered.

Ge 24:50; 44:16; Job 40:4,5; Mt 22:12,34,36; Ro 3:19; 6:21

I only.

19:10,14; 20:13,32,35,38; 22:6-8; Ro 11:3

Baal's prophets.

19,20; Mt 7:13-15; 2Ti 4:3,4; 2Pe 2:1-3

1 Kings 22:6

the prophets together.

18:19; 2Ti 4:3

Go up.

15,22,23; 2Ch 18:14; Jer 5:31; 8:10,11; 14:13,14; 23:14-17

Jer 28:1-9; Eze 13:7-16,22; Mt 7:15; 2Pe 2:1-3; Re 19:20

the Lord.This prophecy is couched in the ambiguous terms in which the heathen oracles were delivered. It may mean, either "The Lord will deliver it (Ramoth Gilead) into the king's (Ahab's) hand;" or, "The Lord will deliver (Israel) into the king's (of Syria) hand." So in the famous reply of the Delphian oracle to Pyrrhus: {Aio te Æacida, Romanos vincere posse: Ibis redibis nunquam in bello peribis;} "I say to thee, Pyrrhus the Romans shall overcome: thou shalt go, thou shalt return never in war shalt thou perish."