22And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
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And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. …
For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-31)Judah’s story and Israel’s are intermixed in this book. Jeroboam out-lived Rehoboam, four or five years, yet his history is despatched first, that the account of Rehoboam’s reign may be laid together; and a sad account it is. I. Here is no good said of the king. All the account we have of him here is, 1. That he was forty-one years old when he began to reign, by which reckoning he was born in the…
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