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1 Kings 16:2

in 1 Kings 16

“Even though I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have caused My people Israel to sin and to provoke Me to anger by their sins.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my people Israel, and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;

KJV

Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;

This verse in 1 Kings 16

Commentary

8 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Made thee prince over my people - That is, in the course of my providence, I suffered thee to become king; for it is impossible that God should make a rebel, a traitor, and a murderer, king over his people, or over any people. God is ever represented in Scripture as doing those things which, in the course of his providence, he permits to be done.

This site's exposition

against Baasha, saying

on 1 Kings 16:1-2

Jehu's oracle against Baasha reuses, almost word for word, the charge Ahijah brought against Jeroboam at 14:7 through 14:9: exalted out of the dust, made prince, and now made my people to sin. Baasha took the throne by killing every one of Jeroboam's house at 15:29, and the same words that raised him now condemn him for repeating the very sin he was raised up to punish. Kings measures every northern king by his distance from Jeroboam's calves, and Baasha fails his own test.

This site's exposition

made you ruler over My people Israel

The LORD still calls the northern kingdom My people Israel, even under Baasha and his sins. Matthew Henry reads the name as kept because Israel still bore circumcision and many good people still lived in the land. Hosea 1:9 gives Israel the name Lo-ammi later.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Rabanus Maurus

COMMENTARY ON THE THIRD BOOK OF KINGS 15 · Written before 856.

proposed

"Since I exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have caused my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins, therefore, I will consume the …

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

And if Baasha had done this in obedience to God's command, and with a single design, to execute God's vengeance threatened against him, it had been no more a sin, than Jehu's act in killing his master king Jehoram, upon the same account, 2 Kings ix, 24.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

I made thee prince over my people. God calls Israel his people still, though wretchedly corrupted, because they retained the covenant of circumcision, and there were many good people among them; it was not till long after that they were called Loammi, not a people, Hos. i.
Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

He still showed His interest in them by sending prophets and working miracles in their favor, and possessed a multitude of faithful worshippers in the kingdom of Israel.

The words behind it

19 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.

  • יַ֗עַןbecause

    yaanH328299 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֤רthat

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • הֲרִימֹתִ֙יךָ֙I raised up you

    harimotikhaH7311190 times

  • מִן־from

    min-H44801188 times

  • הֶ֣עָפָ֔רthe dust

    heafarH6083110 times

  • וָאֶתֶּנְךָ֣and I made you

    vaetenkhaH54142011 times

  • נָגִ֔ידa ruler

    nagidH505745 times

  • עַ֖לover

    ʾalH59215755 times

  • עַמִּ֣יpeople my

    ʾamiH59711873 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • וַתֵּ֣לֶךְ׀and you have walked

    vatelekhH19801546 times

  • בְּדֶ֣רֶךְin [the] way of

    bederekhH1870707 times

  • יָרָבְעָ֗םJeroboam

    yaraveamH3379104 times

  • וַֽתַּחֲטִא֙and you have caused to sin

    vatachati'H2398238 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • עַמִּ֣יpeople my

    ʾamiH59711873 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • לְהַכְעִיסֵ֖נִיto provoke to anger me

    lehakhiseniH370754 times

  • בְּחַטֹּאתָֽם׃by sins their

    bechatotamH2403295 times

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

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 Samuel 2:8

    He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth…

    it leads to

    • Psalms 113:7–8

      He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump

    • Daniel 2:48

      Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many generous gifts. He made him ruler over the entire province of Babylon and chief administrator over all the wise men of Babylon.

    • James 2:5

      Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?

    • Daniel 6:3

      Soon, by his extraordinary spirit, Daniel distinguished himself among the administrators and satraps. So the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom.

    • 1 Samuel 15:17

      And Samuel said, “Although you were once small in your own eyes, have you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel

  • Through

    1 Kings 15:34

    And Baasha did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin, which he had caused Israel to commit.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 15:26

      And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father and in his sin, which he had caused Israel to commit.

    • 1 Kings 14:16

      So He will give Israel over on account of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.”

  • Through

    1 Kings 14:7

    Go, tell Jeroboam that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I raised you up from among the people and appointed you ruler over My people Israel.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 12:7–8

      Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Kings; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Rabanus Maurus, COMMENTARY ON THE THIRD BOOK OF KINGS 15.