x Either, Firſt, For the loſs of ſo worthy and hopeful a Perſon Or,Secondly,For the ſad Calamities which thould follow his death, which poflibly his moderation, and witdom, and vertue, might have prevented, whereof his death was a certain prefage and evi- dence. So they ſhould mourn, nor ſimply for him, but for their own loſs in him. y Shall have the honour of Burial denied to the reſt, v. 1. » Some Pious inclinations and intentions of taking a- way the Calves,or of permitting or obliging his People to go up to Jeruſalem to Worſhip, if God gave him Life and Authority to do it, and of truſting God with his Kingdom in that cale. » Which is added for his greater commendation ; he was good in the midſt of ſo many temptations and wicked examples ; a good branch of A bad ſtock.
14 Moreover, the LORD ſhall raiſe him up a king þ over I{rae], who ſhall cut off the houſe of jeroboam chat day c : but what 4? even now,
b Bauſha, chaps t5: 538. c When he is fo raiſed 5 in the very beginning of his Reign, chap. 15: 29. d But what do I ſay, he jha raiſe, as 1t were a thing to be done at a great diſtance of time ; he hath already raifed him in ſome ſort: the man is now in being, it | Not 1n power, who {ſhall do this : this Judgment fhall be ſhortly exccuted.
15 For the LOR D ſhall ſmite Ifrael e as a reed is + , King ſhaken in the water f, and he ſhall * root up Iſrael out 17: 24; of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and thall ſcatter them beyond the river g,becaulſe they have
made their groves h, provoking the LORD to anger.
c Becauſe they obeyed Jereboam's wicked command of Wors- ſhipping the Caives, and that willingly, Hs. 5: 11- f Eaſily and variouſly, hither and thirker, with every wind. So ſball the King- dom and people of Iſrael be always in an unquiet and unſettled poſture, toſſed to and fro by Foreign Invaſions and Civil Wars ; by oppoſite Kings and FaGtions, and by the diflentions of the People. See 2 Kings 17: 18. g To wit, Euphrates, oft fo called by way of EMminency, as Gen: 15; 18: and 31:21. 1 Kings 4:21, 24 This was accomplithed in part, 2 Kings 15: 29. and more fully, 2 Kings 17: 6. þ For the Worſhip of their Ido)s, Exod: 34: 13. Dent: 16: 21, God having before condemned the making and Worlthipping of the Calves, by which they deſigned or pretended to Worſhip the True God ; he now takes notice that they were not contented with the Calves, bur ( as it is the nature ot Idolatry.and all fin,to proceed from evil to worſe ) were many of them tallen into another and a worſe kind of Idolatry, even their worthip cf the Heatheniſh Baals, which they commonly exerciſed in Groves. See on 1 K'zgs 18: 19. '
16 And he ſhall give Iſrael up, becauſe of the fins of
Jeroboam, who did ſin, and who made Iſrael to lin z. ; To wit, by his invention, and making of the occaſion of their ſin, the Calves 3 by his example, by encouraging thoſe and only thoſe that worſhipped the Calves ; and by his Authority requiring and compelling them to do it. This is mentioned as a monſtrous aggravation of hisWickedneſs,that he was not content with his own ſin, bur was the great Author and chief cauſe of drawing others into ſin,and of corrupting and undoing the whole Ku:gdom:which therefore God would never forgive him, nor forget him, but upon
2 Chron:
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came to Tirzah & : and when ſhe came to the threſho'd
of the door /, the child died.
t An Ancient and Royal City, Jef: 12: 24: in a pleaſant place, Cant: 6: 4: where the Kings of Iſrael had a Palace, Chap: 5: 33: and 16; 6,8, 23, 24: whither Jeroboam was now removed from Shechem, either for his picaſure, or for his Sons recovery, by th: healthfulneſs of the place. { To wit, of the King's Houſe, whict probably was upon, or by the Wall of the City, and near the Gate, which was the place of Judicature, Sec v. 12.
18 Ard they buried him, and all Iſrael mourned foi him, according to the word of the LORD, which hc ſpake by the hand of his ſervant Ahijah the prophet.
19 And the reſt of the acts of Jeroboam, how he war- red,and how he reigned, behold, they are written 1n tac book of the Chronicles of the kings of Irael . | By which
Mens Edification- . ; ;
20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned, were two and twenty years » : and he Þ ſlept with his fathers o, and Nadab his ſon reigned in his ſtead. |
3 So he lived till Aſ#'s ſecond year, Chap 15. 25- 0- Either, Firt, He was Buried with his Anceſtors. Bur their Sepulchre ſeems to be too mean and improper for a great King ; and Kings uſe to be buricd in peculiar Sepuichres, Or, Secondly, He died, as his Fathers did. :
21 4 And Rehoboam the fon of Solomon reigned 11 Judah: * Rehoboamwas forty and one years oid p when he began to reign, and he reigned ſeventeen years 11 Jeruſalem, the city which the LORD did chufe out of all the tribes of iſrael, to put his Nawe there : and lit: mothers name was Nazamah, an Ammonirteſs q.
p Therefore he was born a year before Solomon was King, as appears from 1 Kings 11. 42. This is noted asan aggravation of Rc/20000m 5 folly, that he was old enough to have been wiſer. q A people curſed by God, and ſhut out of the Congregation of his people tor ever, Deut. 23.3. Neh.i3-1. This is oblerved as one cauſe borh of Gods ditpleature in puniſhing Solomon with ſuch 2 Son, and of Rehe- boam's Apoſtacy after his three firit years, 2 Chron. 11: 17.
22 And Judah didevil r in the tight of che LORD, and they provoked him to jealoufie with their fins which they had commitced, above all that their fathers
had done.
r Affer a little time, 2 Chron. 11.17. :
23 For they allo / built them high places #, and |imazes, and groves # upon every high hill,and under every green tree x. : |