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Selected Verse: 1 Kings 14:22 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 1Ki 14:22 |
King James |
And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done. |
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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
This defection of Judah did not take place until Rehoboam's fourth year (marginal reference).
They provoked him to jealousy - Compare Exo 20:5; and on the force of the metaphor involved in the word, see Exo 34:15 note. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| In the sight of the Lord - In contempt and defiance of him, and the tokens of his special presence. Jealousy - As the adulterous wife provokes her husband, by breaking the marriage covenant. |
15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;