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In First Kings, chapter thirteen, verse nine, the prophet, God’s spokesman, was under the highest obligation to follow the entire Word of the Lord. This prophet later failed to obey God’s instruction and paid with his life, as in verses eleven through twenty-four. Eat no bread, nor drink water, to wit, in that place, or […]

In First Kings, chapter thirteen, verse two, the prophecy was made about three hundred years before Josiah was born. A man of God from Judah cries out at the altar with Jeroboam standing against all the worship performed. He directs his speech against the altar because the following signs would come. The future prophecy is the

In First Kings, chapter twelve, verse thirty-one, Jeroboam appointed priests who were not qualified according to God’s standards in Numbers three, verses six through nine, and chapter eight, verses five through twenty, respectively. Under the new covenant, the Levitical priesthood no longer exists, but God has established particular essential qualifications for those ordained for pastoral

In First Kings, chapter twelve, verse twenty-eight, Jeroboam of the northern kingdom established a counterfeit religious system by offering the people worship of their gods through idols, as in verses twenty-seven through thirty, and the warning stanza of Exodus twenty, three to four, after the pattern of the golden calf made by Aaron in Exodus

In First Kings, chapter twelve, verse twenty-four, the Lord brought about the division of his people. He designed the existence of two nations as a punishment for idolatry, and as a means of preserving a faithful remnant through Judah, as in chapter eleven, verse thirteen. Though Israel departed from God, a leftover part of Judah

In First Kings, chapter twelve, verse twenty, at the death of Solomon, the Hebrew nation split into two kingdoms. The northern kingdom, called Israel, was first ruled by Jeroboam. The southern kingdom, called Judah, was started to be governed by Rehoboam, Solomon’s son, as in verse seventeen. The division continued until the ten northern tribes

In First Kings, chapter eleven, verse forty-three, mention Solomon’s idolatry and sin and speaks of his death without indication that he repented and returned to God. The Chronicler records David’s warning to Solomon at the end of First Chronicles twenty-eight, verse nine, “If thou forsake God, he will cast thee off forever.” The Biblical truth

In First Kings, chapter eleven, verses five through seven, Solomon first tolerated the false gods of his wives, then turned his own heart after them, as in verses two through nine. In addition to his worship of the Lord, Solomon added the worship of the Sidonian goddess Ashtoreth involving immortal rituals and the worship of

In First Kings, chapter eleven, verse four, David’s heart was “perfect.” Not in the sense that he never failed God miserably but that he never turned to idolatry and the worship of other gods. In his adultery with Bathsheba and his attempted cover-up, David grievously sinning was to the point of despising God and His

In First Kings, chapter eleven, verse two, Solomon’s possession of many wives not only ignored God’s commandment for kings not to make multiple wives in Deuteronomy seventeen, verse seventeen, but also transgressed God’s prohibition against marrying pagan wives from the Canaanites as in Exodus thirty-four, verse twelve through sixteen, and Joshua twenty-three, verses twelve to