Num 14:23, 35, 1Sa 2:30-32, 13:13-14, 15:26-28, 1Ki 11:31, 12:15-16, 20 | TSK | STEP | Surely they shall not see. Heb. If they see.

I will cut.That is, I will destroy the strength, power, influence, and authority of thee and thy family; of which the arm of man being the instrument, is used as the emblem.

4:2,11,17-20; 14:3; 22:17-20; 1Ki 2:26,27,35; Job 22:9; Ps 37:17

Eze 30:21-24; 44:10

an enemy, etc.Or, the affliction of the tabernacle, for all the wealth which God would have given Israel. This appears to be the right translation; for, agreeably to this prediction, he did see the tabernacle deprived of the ark, which was its glory, and lived to hear that it was captured by the Philistines.

4:4,11,22; Ps 78:59-64

an old man.

Zec 8:4

1 Samuel 13:13-14

Thou hast done.

2Sa 12:7-9; 1Ki 18:18; 21:20; 2Ch 16:9; 19:2; 25:15,16; Job 34:18

Pr 19:3; Mt 14:3,4

hast not kept.

15:11,22,28; Ps 50:8-15

But now.

2:30; 15:28

the Lord.

16:1,12; 2Sa 7:15,16; Ps 78:70; 89:19,20-37; Ac 13:22

captain over.

9:16; 2Sa 5:2; 2Ki 20:5; Heb 2:10

1 Samuel 15:26-28

I will not.

31; Ge 42:38; 43:11-14; Lu 24:28,29; 2Jo 1:11

for thou.

23; 2:30; 13:14; 16:1; Jer 6:19; Ho 4:6

The Lord.

28:17,18; 1Ki 11:30,31

hath given.

2:7,8; Jer 27:5,6; Da 4:17,32; Joh 19:11; Ro 13:1

a neighbour.

13:14; 16:12; Ac 13:22

1 Kings 11:31

thus saith.

11,12

1 Kings 12:15-16

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

What portion.

2Sa 20:1; 2Ch 10:16

to your tents.

22:17,36

now see.

11:13,34,36,39; 2Sa 7:15,16; Ps 2:1-6; 76:10; 89:29-37; 132:17