1 Kings 14

He makes a critical discant upon men's actions. Jeroboam's wife disguised herself that the prophet should not know her, but he discerned her (1 Kings 14:6). Why do you feign yourself to be another. The hypocrite thinks to prevaricate and juggle with God, but God will unmask him;…

That is, God lays up the punishment of his iniquity for his children; the child smarts for the father's sin. Jeroboam thought to have established the kingdom by idolatrous worship, but it brought ruin upon him and all his posterity (1 Kings 14:10). Ahab's idolatry wronged his po…

Luther confessed there were three things which he dared not think of without Christ: his sins, death, and the day of judgment. Death to a Christless soul is the king of terrors, as the prophet Ahijah said to Jeroboam's wife (1 Kings 14:6): I am sent to you with heavy tidings. So…

Objection 3. Some books of the canon of Scripture are lost, as the book of the Wars of God (Numbers 21:14), the book of the Just (Joshua 10:13), the books of Chronicles of the kings of Israel and Judah (1 Kings 14:19), and the books of certain prophets, Nathan, Gad, Iddo, Ahijah…

When of a sudden there came three men to Abram, and he was desirous to entertain them, he bid his wife make ready quickly three measures of meal, etc., and she did it accordingly (Genesis 18:6). Jeroboam having a weighty occasion to send to Ahijah the Prophet, thought it meet to…

So that this expression, of seeking the Lord with the whole heart, is reconcilable enough with the weaknesses of the present state. For instance (1 Kings 14:8): My servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, and did that only which was right…

1. All such as are renewed by grace, and reconciled to God by Christ Jesus; to these God imputes no sin to condemnation, and in his account they do no iniquity. Notable is that, (1 Kings 14:8) it is said of David, He kept my commandments, and followed me with all his heart, and…

Well then, David did not only keep from open apostasy, but from declining or turning aside in the least to any hand. Testimonies we have of his integrity in Scripture (1 Kings 14:8): David kept my commandment, and followed me with all his heart to do only that which was right in…

To be a sin-hater implies two things: first, to look upon sin as the most deadly evil, a complicated evil that looks more ghastly than death or hell; second, to be implacably incensed against it. A sin-hater will never admit of any terms of peace; the war between him and sin is…