Exo 4:21, 9:16, Deu 2:30, Judg 14:4, 1Sa 2:25, 1Ki 12:15, 22:20-23 | TSK | STEP

it was of the Lord.That is, God permitted it, that it might be a means of bringing about the deliverance of Israel. Such marriages were forbidden to the Israelites, to keep them separate from the idolatrous nations.

Jos 11:20; 1Ki 12:15; 2Ki 6:33; 2Ch 10:15; 22:7; 25:20; Ps 115:3

had dominion.

13:1; 15:11; De 28:48

1 Samuel 2:25

sin against.

De 17:8-12; 25:1-3

if a man.

3:14; Nu 15:30; Ps 51:4,16; Heb 10:26

who shall.

1Ti 2:5; Heb 7:25

hearkened.

De 2:30; Jos 11:20; 2Ch 25:16; Pr 15:10; Joh 12:39,40

because.Rather, therefore, as the particle {kee} also signifies (see Ps 116:10:) so Noldius, {Ideo voluit Jehova eos interficere,} "Therefore Jehovah purposed to destroy them."

1 Kings 12:15

the cause.The cause of all this confusion and anarchy was Rehoboam's folly, cruelty, and despotic tyranny, and this was certainly not "from the Lord," nor does the original text speak this doctrine. See an elucidation of a similar passage at 2 Sa 24:1. It says, {sibbah,} (from {savav,} to turn, change,) "the change or Revolution was from the Lord;" which is consistent with all the preceding declarations. God stirred up the people to revolt from a man who had neither skill nor humanity to govern them. God serves his own wise and righteous purpose by the imprudences and iniquities of men, and snares sinners in the work of their own hands. "He maketh the wrath of man to praise him."

24; 22:23; De 2:30; Jud 14:4; 2Ch 10:15; 22:7; 25:16,20; Ps 5:10

Am 3:6; Ac 2:23; 4:28

that he might.

11:11,29-38; 1Sa 15:29; 2Sa 17:14; 2Ki 9:36; 10:10; Isa 14:13-17

Isa 46:10,11; Da 4:35; Joh 19:23,24,28,29,32-37; Ac 3:17

Ac 13:27-29