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1 Kings 13:32

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for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

For the saying which he cried by the word of Jehovah against the altar in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

KJV

For the saying which he cried by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth–el, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

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This verse in 1 Kings 13

Commentary

8 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

In the cities of Samaria - It is most certain that Samaria, or as it is called in Hebrew Shomeron, was not built at this time. We are expressly told that Omri, king of Israel, founded this city on the hill which he bought for two talents of silver, from a person of the name of Shemer, after whom he called the city Samaria or Shomeron; (see 1Ki 16:24); and this was fifty years after the death of Jeroboam.

This site's exposition

lay my bones beside his bones

on 1 Kings 13:31-32

The old prophet asks to be buried in the same grave, and Henry reads his reason as plainly stated: what the man of God cried against Bethel's altar will surely come to pass, and he wants his own bones lying where they will be safe when it does. Three centuries later at 2 Ki 23:16-18, Josiah burns the bones of Bethel's priests on that same altar and, seeing the marker, spares this one grave by name, both men's bones inside it. The old prophet's request outlives his lie and secures what his disobedient guest's own obedience could not.

This site's exposition

the cities of Samaria

Samaria was built later by Omri, who bought the hill from Shemer at 16:24. Adam Clarke and John Wesley both note that the writer uses the name the kingdom of Israel bore in his own day. The old prophet trusted the word against the altar in Bethel.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Samaria - That is, of the kingdom of Samaria; as it was called, though not when this fact was done, yet before these books were written. Samaria was properly this name of one city, chap. xxi, 1, but from hence the whole kingdom of Israel was so called.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He consults his own interest. It was foretold that men's bones should be burnt upon Jeroboam's altar: "Lay mine (says he) close to his, and then they will not be disturbed;" and it was, accordingly, their security, as we find, 2 Kings xxiii. Sleeping and waking, living and dying, it is safe being in good company.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

12 ), that they might glory in their fall. It is certain that he took a very bad method to bring him back. When the man of God had told him, "I may not, and therefore I will not, return to eat bread with thee" (his resolutions concurring with the divine command,

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For the saying which he cried by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Against all the houses of the high places - i. e., more than the two high places at Dan and Bethel. There were many lesser high places in the land, several of which would be likely to be in Israel 1Ki 3:4. In the cities of Samaria - The word Samaria cannot have been employed by the old prophet, in whose days Samaria did not exist 1Ki 16:24. The writer of Kings has substituted for the term used by him that whereby the country was known in his own day.

The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • כִּי֩for

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • הָיֹ֨הcertainly <to happen>

    hayohH1961 →3559 times

  • יִהְיֶ֜הit will happen

    yihyehH1961 →3559 times

  • הַדָּבָ֗רthe word

    hadavarH1697 →1440 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֤רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • קָרָא֙he called out

    kara'H7121 →733 times

  • בִּדְבַ֣רby [the] word of

    bidvarH1697 →1440 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הַמִּזְבֵּ֖חַthe altar

    hamizbeachH4196 →401 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • בְּבֵֽית־[is] in Beth-

    beveit-H1008 →142 times

  • אֵ֑ל-el

    ʾelH1008 →142 times

  • וְעַל֙and on

    vealH5921 →5755 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • בָּתֵּ֣י[the] houses of

    bateiH1004 →2046 times

  • הַבָּמ֔וֹתthe high places

    habamotH1116 →102 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֖רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • בְּעָרֵ֥י[are] in [the] cities of

    beareiH5892 →1090 times

  • שֹׁמְרֽוֹן׃ פSamaria

    shomeronH8111 →109 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

15 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

1 Kings 16:24He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver and built a city there, calling it Samaria after the name of Shemer, who had owned the hill.6 works2 Kings 23:16And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.6 works1 Kings 13:2And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”5 worksLeviticus 26:30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.4 works1 Kings 12:31Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.4 worksMicah 1:5All this is for the transgression of Jacob and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?3 works
The other 9 cross-references, with their words ▾
2 Kings 10:1Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying:3 works2 Chronicles 25:13Meanwhile the troops that Amaziah had dismissed from battle raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon. They struck down 3,000 people and carried off a great deal of plunder.2 works1 Kings 12:29One calf he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan.2 worksJohn 4:4–5Now He had to pass through Samaria.2 worksEzra 4:10and the rest of the peoples whom the great and honorable Ashurbanipal deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and elsewhere west of the Euphrates.2 works1 Kings 13:1Suddenly, as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD.2 works2 Kings 17:29Nevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they set them up in the shrines that the people of Samaria had made on the high places.2 works2 Kings 23:19Just as Josiah had done at Bethel, so also in the cities of Samaria he removed all the shrines of the high places set up by the kings of Israel who had provoked the LORD to anger.2 works1 Kings 21:18“Get up and go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria. See, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, of which he has gone to take possession.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Kings 12:31

    Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 13:32–33

      for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely…

    • 2 Kings 17:32

      So the new residents worshiped the LORD, but they also appointed for themselves priests of all sorts to serve in the shrines of the high places.

    • 2 Chronicles 13:9

      But did you not drive out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites? And did you not make priests for yourselves as do the peoples of other lands? Now…

    • Numbers 3:10

      So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons to carry out the duties of the priesthood; but any outsider who approaches the tabernacle must be put to death.”

    • 2 Chronicles 11:14–15

      For the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the LORD.

  • Through

    1 Kings 13:2

    And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 36:1

      “And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say: O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.

    • 2 Kings 23:15–18

      He even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder,…

  • Through

    Leviticus 26:30

    I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 23:20

      On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

The Disobedient Prophet Is Slain by a Lion — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Disobedient Prophet Is Slain by a Lion — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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