Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, by R.A. Torrey, [ca. 1880], at sacred-texts.com
3 Kings (1 Kings) Chapter 12
Overview
Kg1 12:1, The Israelites, assembled at Shechem to crown Rehoboam, by Jeroboam make a suit of relaxation unto him; Kg1 12:6, Rehoboam, refusing the old men's counsel, answers them roughly; Kg1 12:16, Ten tribes revolting, kill Adoram, and make Rehoboam flee; Kg1 12:21, Rehoboam, raising an army, is forbidden by Shemaiah; Kg1 12:25, Jeroboam strengthens himself by cities; Kg1 12:26, and by the idolatry of the two calves.
Rehoboam: Kg1 11:43; 2Chr. 10:1-19
Shechem: Gen 12:6, Sichem, Gen 33:18, Gen 33:19; Jos 20:7, Jos 24:1, Jos 24:32; Jdg 9:1; Psa 60:6; Act 7:16, Sychem
Jeroboam the son of Nebat: Kg1 11:26-31, Kg1 11:40; Ch2 10:2, Ch2 10:3
our yoke: Kg1 4:7, Kg1 4:20, Kg1 4:22, Kg1 4:23, Kg1 4:25, Kg1 9:15, Kg1 9:22, Kg1 9:23; Sa1 8:11-18; Ch2 10:4, Ch2 10:5; Mat 11:29, Mat 11:30; Mat 23:4; Jo1 5:3
consulted: Sa2 16:20, Sa2 17:5; Job 12:12, Job 32:7; Pro 27:10; Jer 42:2-5, Jer 43:2
If thou wilt: Ch2 10:6, Ch2 10:7; Pro 15:1; Mar 10:43, Mar 10:44; Phi 2:7-11
speak good: Kg1 12:13; Sa2 15:3-6; Ecc 10:4; Zac 1:13
Ch2 10:8, Ch2 25:15, Ch2 25:16; Pro 1:2-5, Pro 1:25, Pro 1:30, Pro 19:20, Pro 25:12; Ecc 10:2, Ecc 10:3
Kg1 22:6-8; Sa2 17:5, Sa2 17:6; Ch2 10:9, Ch2 18:5-7
Thus shalt thou: Sa2 17:7-13
My little finger: A proverbial mode of expression: "My little finger is thicker than my father's thigh." As much as the thigh surpasses the little finger in thickness, so much does my power exceed that of my father; and the use I shall make of it to oppress and tax you shall be in proportion. Ch2 10:10, Ch2 10:11; Pro 10:14, Pro 18:6, Pro 18:7, Pro 28:25, Pro 29:23; Isa 47:6
I will add: Exo 1:13, Exo 1:14, Exo 5:5-9, Exo 5:18; Sa1 8:18; Ch2 16:10; Isa 58:6; Jer 27:11; Jer 28:13, Jer 28:14
but I will chastise: Should you rebel or become disaffected, my father's whip shall be a scorpion in my hand. His was chastisement, mine shall be punishment. Celsius and Hiller conjecture that âkrabbim denotes a thorny kind of shrub, whose prickles are of a venomous nature, called by the Arabs scorpion thorns, from the exquisite pain which they inflict. But the Chaldee renders it margenin, and the Syriac moragyai, i.e., μαραγναι, scourges; and in the parallel place of Chronicles the Arabic has saut, a scourge. Isidore, and after him Calmet and others, assert that the scorpion was a sort of severe whip, the lashes of which were armed with knots or points that sunk into and tore the flesh.
scorpions: Kg1 12:14; Eze 2:6; Rev 9:3-10
Come to me again: Kg1 12:5; Ch2 10:12-14
answered: Kg1 20:6-11; Gen 42:7, Gen 42:30; Exo 5:2, Exo 10:28; Jdg 12:1-6; Sa1 20:10, Sa1 20:30, Sa1 20:31; Sa1 25:10, Sa1 25:11; Sa2 19:43; Pro 10:11, Pro 10:32, Pro 15:1, Pro 18:23; Ecc 10:12; Jam 3:17
roughly: Heb. hardly, Gen 16:6
forsook: Pro 13:20
the counsel: Ch2 22:4, Ch2 22:5; Est 1:16-21, Est 2:2-4; Pro 12:5; Isa 19:11-13; Dan 6:7
My father made: Kg1 12:10, Kg1 12:11; Pro 13:10, Pro 16:18, Pro 17:14; Ecc 7:8; Jam 3:14-18, Jam 4:1, Jam 4:2
the cause: The cause of all this confusion and anarchy was Rehoboam's folly, cruelty, and despotic tyranny, and this was certainly not "from the Lord," nor does the original text speak this doctrine. For an elucidation of a similar passage, see note on Sa2 24:1. It says, sibbah, (from savav, to turn, change), "the change or Revolution was from the Lord;" which is consistent with all the preceding declarations. God stirred up the people to revolt from a man who had neither skill nor humanity to govern them. God serves his own wise and righteous purpose by the imprudences and iniquities of men, and snares sinners in the work of their own hands. "He maketh the wrath of man to praise him." Kg1 12:24, Kg1 22:23; Deu 2:30; Jdg 14:4; Ch2 10:15, Ch2 22:7, Ch2 25:16, Ch2 25:20; Psa 5:10; Amo 3:6; Act 2:23, Act 4:28
that he might: Kg1 11:11, Kg1 11:29-38; Sa1 15:29; Sa2 17:14; Kg2 9:36, Kg2 10:10; Isa 14:13-17; Isa 46:10, Isa 46:11; Dan 4:35; Joh 19:23, Joh 19:24, Joh 19:28, Joh 19:29, Joh 19:32-37; Act 3:17; Act 13:27-29
What portion: Sa2 20:1; Ch2 10:16
to your tents: Kg1 22:17, Kg1 22:36
now see: Kg1 11:13, Kg1 11:34, Kg1 11:36, Kg1 11:39; Sa2 7:15, Sa2 7:16; Psa 2:1-6, Psa 76:10, Psa 89:29-37, Psa 132:17; Isa 7:2, Isa 7:6, Isa 7:7, Isa 9:6, Isa 9:7; Jer 23:5, Jer 23:6, Jer 33:15, Jer 33:16, Jer 33:21; Luk 19:14, Luk 19:27
So Israel: Jdg 8:35; Sa2 15:13, Sa2 16:11
the children: Kg1 11:13, Kg1 11:36; Ch2 10:17, Ch2 11:13-17
Adoram: Kg1 4:6, Kg1 5:14, Adoniram, Sa2 20:24; Ch2 10:18, Hadoram
all Israel: Exo 17:4; Num 14:10; Ch2 24:21; Act 5:26, Act 7:57, Act 7:58
made speed: Heb. strengthened himself
flee to Jerusalem: Kg1 20:18-20; Pro 28:1, Pro 28:2; Amo 2:16
Israel: Sa1 10:19; Kg2 17:21; Ch2 10:19, Ch2 13:5-7, Ch2 13:17; Isa 7:17
rebelled: or, fell away, Heb 6:6
unto this day: Jos 4:9
and made him: Sa1 10:24; Hos 8:4
none that followed: Kg1 12:17, Kg1 11:13, Kg1 11:32; Hos 11:12
when Rehoboam: Ch2 11:1-3
an hundred: Ch1 21:5; Ch2 14:8, Ch2 14:11, Ch2 17:14-19; Pro 21:30, Pro 21:31
Deu 33:1; Kg2 4:16, Kg2 4:22, Kg2 4:25, Kg2 4:27; Ti1 6:11
Shemaiah: Ch2 11:2, Ch2 12:5, Ch2 12:7
the man: Kg1 13:1, Kg1 13:4, Kg1 13:5, Kg1 13:11, Kg1 17:18, Kg1 17:24
Ye shall not go up: Num 14:42; Ch2 11:4, Ch2 25:7, Ch2 25:8, Ch2 28:9-13
for this thing: Kg1 12:15, Kg1 11:29-38; Hos 8:4
They hearkened: Ch2 25:10, Ch2 28:13-15
built: Kg1 9:15, Kg1 9:17, Kg1 9:18, Kg1 15:17, Kg1 16:24; Ch2 11:5-12
Shechem: Kg1 12:1; Jdg 9:1, Jdg 9:45-49
Penuel: Gen 32:30, Gen 32:31; Jdg 8:8, Jdg 8:17
said in his heart: Psa 14:1; Mar 2:6-8; Luk 7:39
Now shall: Kg1 11:38; Sa1 27:1; Ch2 20:20; Isa 7:9; Jer 38:18-21; Joh 11:47-50; Joh 12:10, Joh 12:11, Joh 12:19; Act 4:16, Act 4:17
go up: Kg1 8:29, Kg1 8:30, Kg1 8:44, Kg1 11:32; Deu 12:5-7, Deu 12:14, Deu 16:2, Deu 16:6
and they shall: Gen 12:12, Gen 12:13, Gen 26:7; Pro 29:25; Co1 1:19, Co1 1:20
took counsel: Kg1 12:8, Kg1 12:9; Exo 1:10; Isa 30:1
two calves of gold: He invented a political religion, and instituted feasts in his own times, different from those appointed by Jehovah; gave the people certain objects of adoration, and pretended to think that it would be both inconvenient and oppressive to them to go up to Jerusalem to worship. These calves were doubtless of the same kind as the calf which was set up by Aaron; and it is remarkable, that in pointing them out to the people he should use the same words that Aaron used on that occasion, when they must have heard what terrible judgments fell upon their forefathers for this idolatry. Solomon's idolatry, however, had prepared the people for Jeroboam's abominations. Exo 20:4; Deu 4:14-18; Kg2 10:29, Kg2 17:16; Ch2 11:15; Hos 8:4-7, Hos 10:5, Hos 10:6
It is too much: Isa 30:10; Pe2 2:19
Bethel: Gen 12:8, Gen 28:19, Gen 35:1; Hos 4:15
Dan: Gen 14:14; Deu 34:1; Jdg 18:29-31, Jdg 20:1; Kg2 10:29; Jer 8:16; Amo 8:14
became a sin: Kg1 13:34; Kg2 10:31, Kg2 17:21
an house: Kg1 13:24, Kg1 13:32; Deu 24:15; Eze 16:25; Hos 12:11
priests: Kg1 13:33; Num 3:10; Kg2 17:32; Ch2 11:14, Ch2 11:15, Ch2 13:9; Eze 44:6-8
like unto: Kg1 8:2, Kg1 8:5; Lev 23:33, Lev 23:34-44; Num. 29:12-40; Eze 43:8; Mat 15:8, Mat 15:9
offered upon the altar: or, went up to the altar, sacrificing. or, to sacrifice. he placed. Amo 7:10-13
offered upon the altar: or, went up to the altar, etc. Kg1 12:32
in the month: Num 15:39; Psa 106:39; Isa 29:13; Mat 15:6; Mar 7:13
he offered: Kg1 13:1; Sa1 13:12; Ch2 26:6
and burnt incense: Heb. to burn incense