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12Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.

1 Kings 14:12

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 7-20)

When those that set up idols, and keep them up, go to enquire of the Lord, he determines to answer them, not according to the pretensions of their enquiry, but according to the multitude of their idols , Ezek. 14:4. So Jeroboam is answered here. I. The prophet anticipates the enquiry concerning the child, and foretels the ruin of Jeroboam’s house for the wickedness of it. No one else durst have ca...

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