5And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.
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To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. …
Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp. …
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)How Jeroboam persisted in his contempt of God and religion we read in the close of the foregoing chapter. Here we are told how God proceeded in his controversy with him; for when God judges he will overcome, and sinners shall either bend or break before him. I. His child fell sick, 1 Kgs. 14:1. It is probable that he was his eldest son, and heir-apparent to the crown; for at his death all the king…
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