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Selected Verse: 1 Kings 14:15 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
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| 1Ki 14:15 |
Strong Concordance |
For the LORD [03068] shall smite [05221] Israel [03478], as a reed [07070] is shaken [05110] in the water [04325], and he shall root up [05428] Israel [03478] out of this good [02896] land [0127], which he gave [05414] to their fathers [01], and shall scatter [02219] them beyond [05676] the river [05104], because they have made [06213] their groves [0842], provoking the LORD [03068] to anger [03707]. |
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King James |
For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The general prophecy of Moses Deu 29:28, that the disobedient Israelites would be rooted up out of their land, and cast into another land, is here for the first time repeated, and is definitively applied to the ten tribes, which are to be removed "beyond the river" (the Euphrates, Kg1 4:21, Kg1 4:24), and "scattered." On the fulfillment of this prophecy, and especially on the "scattering" of the ten tribes, see Kg2 17:6 note.
Groves - See Exo 34:13 note. The grove or, "asherah"-) worship, adopted from the Canaanite nations, appears to have died away after the fierce onslaught which Gideon made upon it Jdg 6:25-31. It now revived, and became one of the most popular of the idolatries both in Israel and Judah (Kg1 14:23, and compare the marginal references). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Is shaken - Hither and thither, with every wind. So shall the kingdom and people of Israel be always in an unquiet and unsettled posture, tossed to and fro by foreign invasions and civil wars; by opposite kings and factions, and by the dissensions of the people. The river - Euphrates, so called by way of eminency, this was accomplished in part Kg2 15:29, and more fully, Kg2 17:6. Groves - For the worship of their idols, God having before condemned the making and worshipping of the calves, by which they pretended to worship the true God; he now takes notice that they were not contented with the calves, but (as it is in the nature of idolatry, and all sin, to proceed from evil to worse) were many of them fallen into a worse kind of idolatry, even their worship of the heathenish Baals, which they commonly exercised in groves. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| For the Lord shall smite Israel - See this prophecy fulfilled, Kg1 15:28-30, when Baasha destroyed all the house and posterity of Jeroboam. |
23 For they also built [01129] them high places [01116], and images [04676], and groves [0842], on every high [01364] hill [01389], and under every green [07488] tree [06086].
25 And it came to pass the same night [03915], that the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto him, Take [03947] thy father's [01] young [06499] bullock [07794], even the second [08145] bullock [06499] of seven [07651] years old [08141], and throw down [02040] the altar [04196] of Baal [01168] that thy father [01] hath, and cut down [03772] the grove [0842] that is by it:
26 And build [01129] an altar [04196] unto the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] upon the top [07218] of this rock [04581], in the ordered place [04634], and take [03947] the second [08145] bullock [06499], and offer [05927] a burnt sacrifice [05930] with the wood [06086] of the grove [0842] which thou shalt cut down [03772].
27 Then Gideon [01439] took [03947] ten [06235] men [0582] of his servants [05650], and did [06213] as the LORD [03068] had said [01696] unto him: and so it was, because he feared [03372] his father's [01] household [01004], and the men [0582] of the city [05892], that he could not do [06213] it by day [03119], that he did [06213] it by night [03915].
28 And when the men [0582] of the city [05892] arose early [07925] in the morning [01242], behold, the altar [04196] of Baal [01168] was cast down [05422], and the grove [0842] was cut down [03772] that was by it, and the second [08145] bullock [06499] was offered [05927] upon the altar [04196] that was built [01129].
29 And they said [0559] one [0376] to another [07453], Who hath done [06213] this thing [01697]? And when they enquired [01875] and asked [01245], they said [0559], Gideon [01439] the son [01121] of Joash [03101] hath done [06213] this thing [01697].
30 Then the men [0582] of the city [05892] said [0559] unto Joash [03101], Bring out [03318] thy son [01121], that he may die [04191]: because he hath cast down [05422] the altar [04196] of Baal [01168], and because he hath cut down [03772] the grove [0842] that was by it.
31 And Joash [03101] said [0559] unto all that stood [05975] against him, Will ye plead [07378] for Baal [01168]? will ye save [03467] him? he that will plead [07378] for him, let him be put to death [04191] whilst it is yet morning [01242]: if he be a god [0430], let him plead [07378] for himself, because one hath cast down [05422] his altar [04196].
13 But ye shall destroy [05422] their altars [04196], break [07665] their images [04676], and cut down [03772] their groves [0842]:
6 In the ninth [08671] year [08141] of Hoshea [01954] the king [04428] of Assyria [0804] took [03920] Samaria [08111], and carried [01540] Israel [03478] away [01540] into Assyria [0804], and placed [03427] them in Halah [02477] and in Habor [02249] by the river [05104] of Gozan [01470], and in the cities [05892] of the Medes [04074].
24 For he had dominion [07287] over all the region on this side [05676] the river [05104], from Tiphsah [08607] even to Azzah [05804], over all the kings [04428] on this side [05676] the river [05104]: and he had peace [07965] on all sides [05650] [05676] round about [05439] him.
21 And Solomon [08010] reigned [04910] over all kingdoms [04467] from the river [05104] unto the land [0776] of the Philistines [06430], and unto the border [01366] of Egypt [04714]: they brought [05066] presents [04503], and served [05647] Solomon [08010] all the days [03117] of his life [02416].
28 And the LORD [03068] rooted [05428] them out of their land [0127] in anger [0639], and in wrath [02534], and in great [01419] indignation [07110], and cast [07993] them into another [0312] land [0776], as it is this day [03117].
6 In the ninth [08671] year [08141] of Hoshea [01954] the king [04428] of Assyria [0804] took [03920] Samaria [08111], and carried [01540] Israel [03478] away [01540] into Assyria [0804], and placed [03427] them in Halah [02477] and in Habor [02249] by the river [05104] of Gozan [01470], and in the cities [05892] of the Medes [04074].
29 In the days [03117] of Pekah [06492] king [04428] of Israel [03478] came [0935] Tiglathpileser [08407] king [04428] of Assyria [0804], and took [03947] Ijon [05859], and Abelbethmaachah [062], and Janoah [03239], and Kedesh [06943], and Hazor [02674], and Gilead [01568], and Galilee [01551], all the land [0776] of Naphtali [05321], and carried them captive [01540] to Assyria [0804].
28 Even in the third [07969] year [08141] of Asa [0609] king [04428] of Judah [03063] did Baasha [01201] slay [04191] him, and reigned [04427] in his stead.
29 And it came to pass, when he reigned [04427], that he smote [05221] all the house [01004] of Jeroboam [03379]; he left [07604] not to Jeroboam [03379] any that breathed [05397], until he had destroyed [08045] him, according unto the saying [01697] of the LORD [03068], which he spake [01696] by [03027] his servant [05650] Ahijah [0281] the Shilonite [07888]:
30 Because of the sins [02403] of Jeroboam [03379] which he sinned [02398], and which he made Israel [03478] sin [02398], by his provocation [03708] wherewith he provoked the LORD [03068] God [0430] of Israel [03478] to anger [03707].