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1 Kings 14:15
15And the Lord will strike Israel, so that it will be like a reed swaying in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they aroused the Lord’s anger by making Asherah poles.
1 Kings 14:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)the Lord will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water, and root up Israel out of this good land that he gave to their fathers and scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For the Lord will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their wooden images, provoking the Lord to anger.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Then the Lord will shake Israel like a reed whipped about in a stream. He will uproot the people of Israel from this good land that he gave their ancestors and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, for they have angered the Lord with the Asherah poles they have set up for worship.
Context of 1 Kings 14:15
13All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will be buried, because he is the only one in the house of Jeroboam in whom the Lord, the God of Israel, has found anything good. 14“The Lord will raise up for himself a king over Israel who will cut off the family of Jeroboam. Even now this is beginning to happen. And the Lord will strike Israel, so that it will be like a reed swaying in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they aroused the Lord’s anger by making Asherah poles. 16And he will give Israel up because of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.” 17Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and left and went to Tirzah. As soon as she stepped over the threshold of the house, the boy died.
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וְהִכָּ֨ה יְהוָ֜ה אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר יָנ֣וּד הַקָּנֶה֮ בַּמַּיִם֒ וְנָתַ֣שׁ אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל מֵ֠עַל הָאֲדָמָ֨ה הַטּוֹבָ֤ה הַזֹּאת֙ אֲשֶׁ֤ר נָתַן֙ לַאֲב֣וֹתֵיהֶ֔ם וְזֵרָ֖ם מֵעֵ֣בֶר לַנָּהָ֑ר יַ֗עַן אֲשֶׁ֤ר עָשׂוּ֙ אֶת־אֲשֵׁ֣רֵיהֶ֔ם מַכְעִיסִ֖ים אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- For the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
- shall smiteנָכָהnâkâh · to smiteH5221
- Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478
- as a reedקָנֶהqâneh · branch: stemH7070
- is shakenנוּדnûd · to wanderH5110
- in the waterמַיmayim · waterH4325
- and he shall root upנָתַשׁnâthash · to uprootH5428
- out of this goodטוֹבţôb · pleasantH2896
- landאֲדָמָה'ădâmâh · land: soilH127
- which he gaveנָתַןnâthan · to give: giveH5414
- to their fathersאָב'âb · fatherH1
- and shall scatterזָרָהzârâh · to scatterH2219
- them beyondעֵ֫בֶר‛êber · side: beyondH5676
- the riverנָהָרnâhâr · RiverH5104
- because they have madeעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to makeH6213
- their grovesאֲשֵׁרָה'ăshêrâh 'ăshêyrâh · AsherahH842
- to angerכָּעַסka‛as · to provokeH3707
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Cross-references for 1 Kings 14:15
- 1 Samuel 12:25Yet if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will perish.”
- 2 Kings 17:6In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in the towns of the Medes.
- Matthew 11:7As John’s disciples were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swayed by the wind?
- Luke 7:24After John’s messengers left, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swayed by the wind?
- Deuteronomy 29:28In furious anger and in great wrath the Lord uprooted them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now.”
- Psalms 52:5Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin: He will snatch you up and pluck you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living.
- Proverbs 2:22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.
- Amos 2:9“Yet I destroyed the Amorites before them, though they were tall as the cedars and strong as the oaks. I destroyed their fruit above and their roots below.
- Zephaniah 2:4Gaza will be abandoned and Ashkelon left in ruins. At midday Ashdod will be emptied and Ekron uprooted.
- Matthew 15:13He replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.
- Leviticus 26:32I myself will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled.
- Deuteronomy 4:26I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live there long but will certainly be destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 28:36The Lord will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.
- Deuteronomy 29:24All the nations will ask: “Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?”
- Joshua 23:15But just as all the good things the Lord your God has promised you have come to you, so he will bring on you all the evil things he has threatened, until the Lord your God has destroyed you from this good land he has given you.
- 2 Kings 15:29In the time of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maakah, Janoah, Kedesh and Hazor. He took Gilead and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and deported the people to Assyria.
Commentaries on 1 Kings 14:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15For the Lord shall smite Israel - See this prophecy fulfilled, 1 Kings 15:28-30, when Baasha destroyed all the house and posterity of Jeroboam.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15The general prophecy of Moses Deuteronomy 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, 1 Kings 4:21, 1 Kings 4:24), and “scattered.” On the fulfillment of this prophecy, and especially on the “scattering” of the ten tribes, see 2 Kings 17:6 note. Groves…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-20Verses 7-20 Whether we keep an account of God's mercies to us or not, he does; and he will set them in order before us, if we are ungrateful, to our greater confusion. Ahijah foretells the speedy death of the child then sick, in mercy to him. He only in the house of Jeroboam had affection for the true worship of God, and disliked the worship of the calves. To show the power and sovereignty of his grace, God saves some out of the worst families, in whom…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15People believed Asherah was the partner of El, the ancient Canaanite god. Worship of Asherah involved fertility rituals at sacred trees or poles. This practice became a recurring sin for God's people (1 Kings 15:13; 16:33; 18:19; Deuteronomy 16:21; Judges 3:7).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-201Ki 14:1-20. Ahijah Denounces God's Judgments against Jeroboam. 1. At that time--a phrase used often loosely and indefinitely in sacred history. This domestic incident in the family of Jeroboam probably occurred towards the end of his reign; his son Abijah was of age and considered by the people the heir to the throne.Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Kings 14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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