22<\/strong>. did evil<\/em> ] R.V. did that which was evil<\/strong>. The Hebrew text is better represented by this fuller translation.<\/p>\n provoked him to jealousy<\/em> ] Jehovah had called himself a jealous<\/em> God, when the Law was given on Sinai (Exo 20:5<\/span>).<\/p>\n which they had committed<\/em> ] The word ‘had’ is better omitted. The Hebrew has no power of marking such a pluperfect tense in verbal inflexions, and the context must be our guide to such a shade of meaning. Here it is not appropriate for the sins were still continuing. In the previous verse the English pluperfect appears preferable as a translation of the same Hebrew tense for the choice of God had been made long before the days of Rehoboam.<\/p>\n This defection of Judah did not take place until Rehoboams fourth year (marginal reference).<\/P> They provoked him to jealousy – <\/B>Compare Exo 20:5<\/span>; and on the force of the metaphor involved in the word, see Exo 34:15<\/span> note.<\/P> <\/p>\n Judah did evil, <\/B>after a little time, 2Ch 11:17<\/span>. <\/P> <\/p>\n And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord<\/strong>,…. At the end of three years, from the beginning of the reign of Rehoboam:<\/p>\n and they provoked him to jealousy, with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done<\/strong>; that is, with their idolatries; for they were the sins which moved the Lord to jealousy, and provoked the eyes of his glory; in which they had outdone not the ten tribes, but their fathers, in the times of Moses, Joshua, and the judges, and of their kings before their separation, Saul, David, and Solomon.<\/p>\n (22) Forty and one years old when he began to reign.<\/strong>It has been noticed that the age of forty-one assigned to Rehoboam at his accession, here and in the Chronicles (both in the Hebrew text and the ancient versions) and in the history of Josephus, presents some difficulty in relation to the youth ascribed to him and his companions at the time of his accession; and, moreover, if only forty years are given to Solomons reign, must throw back his birth to a time when his father must have been very young. It has been accordingly proposed to read twenty-one (by a slight change of the Hebrew numerals); but the combined authority supporting the present reading is strong, and the difficulties above noted, though real, are not insurmountable.<\/p>\n The city which the Lord did choose.<\/strong>This emphatic notice is, no doubt, intended to place Jerusalem and its worship in marked contrast with the new capitals and unauthorised sanctuaries which had sprung up. The possession of Jerusalem, with all that was associated with it, was the very life of the little kingdom of Judah, threatened by its more powerful rival and by the neighbouring nations. In Israel one capital succeeded another; Shechem, Tirzah, Samaria, Jezreel, became rival cities. In Judah no city could be for a moment placed on the level of the hallowed city of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n Naamah an Ammonitess.<\/strong>The reference to the queen-mother is almost invariable in the annals of the kings, marking the importance always attaching to it in Eastern monarchies; but the mention (here and in 1Ki. 14:31<\/span>) of Naamah as an Ammonitess is perhaps significant in relation to the description of the manifold idolatries of Rehoboam. It is curious that the succession should pass without question to the son of another and an earlier wife than Solomons chief queen, the daughter of Pharaoh.<\/p>\n (22) Judah did evil.<\/strong>From the Chronicles (2Ch. 11:17<\/span>) we gather that, as might have been expected, the judgment which had fallen upon the house of David for idolatry, the rallying of the national feeling round the sacredness of the Temple, and the influx from Israel of the priests and Levites, produced a temporary reaction: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon. With, however, the excitement, and perhaps the sense of danger (2Ch. 12:1<\/span>), this wholesome reaction passed by, and gave way to an extraordinarily reckless plunge into abominations of the worst kind. These are ascribed not, as in the case of Solomon and most other kings, to the action of Rehoboam, but to that of the people at large; for the king himself seems to have been weak, unfit for taking the initiative either in good or evil. The apostasy of Judah was evidently the harvest of the deadly seed sown by the commanding influence of Solomon, under whose idolatry the young men had grown up. It is said to have gone beyond all that their fathers had done, even in the darkest periods of the age of the Judges: perhaps on the ground that the sins of a more advanced state of knowledge and civilisation are, both in their guilt and in their subtlety, worse than the sins of a semi-barbarous age.<\/p>\n 22<\/strong>. <\/strong> Provoked him to jealousy <\/strong> This expression, of frequent occurrence, (see marginal reference,) is a metaphor which views the relation of God and his people as the marriage covenant, in which the people are represented as a faithless wife.<\/p>\n (22) And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done. (23) For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. (24) And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n What a melancholy account is here given of Judah! she is become more degenerate than in any period before. And this at a time when the temple was in all its splendor! Reader! do not fail to remark with me how little the sweet simplicity and godly sincerity of true spiritual worshippers, hath to do with pompous buildings, and the formalities of devotion. Precious Jesus! make me an inner court worshipper!<\/p>\n 1Ki 14:22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.<\/p>\n Ver. 22. And Judah did evil.<\/strong> ] Qualis rex, talis plerunque grex.<\/em> Howbeit there was a remnant among the twelve tribes, thus generally revolted, that “instantly served God day and night.” Act 26:7 See 1Ki 19:10 ; 1Ki 19:18<\/span> .<\/p>\n jealousy. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6. <\/p>\n Judah: Jdg 3:7, Jdg 3:12, Jdg 4:1, 2Ki 17:19, 2Ch 12:1, Jer 3:7-11 <\/p>\n they provoked: 1Ki 14:9, Deu 4:24, Deu 29:28, Deu 32:16-21, Psa 78:58, Isa 65:3, Isa 65:4, 1Co 10:22 <\/p>\n all: 1Ki 16:30, 2Ki 21:11, Eze 16:47, Eze 16:48 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Num 25:11 – that I 1Ki 15:3 – all the sins 1Ki 15:30 – by his provocation 2Ch 14:3 – For he took Ecc 2:8 – silver Jer 25:6 – General Jer 52:2 – he did Zep 1:18 – the fire<\/p>\n 1Ki 14:22-23. Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord In contempt and in defiance of him, and the tokens of his special presence. They provoked him to jealousy By joining other gods together with him, as the adulterous wife provokes her husband by breaking the marriage covenant. They also built them high places Followed the example of the Israelites, although they were better instructed, had the temple in their kingdom, and liberty of access to it, and the privilege of worshipping God in his own way; together with the counsels, sermons, and examples, of the priests and Levites, and the dreadful example of Israels horrid apostacy, to caution and terrify them. High places Which were unlawful, and now especially when the temple was built, and ready to receive them, and unnecessary, and therefore in building them they expressed a greater contempt of God and his express command. Groves Not only after the manner of the heathen and Israelites, but against a direct and particular prohibition. Under every green tree The people were universally corrupted, which is prodigious, all things considered, and is a clear evidence of the greatness and depth of the original corruption of mans nature.<\/p>\n And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done. 22. did evil ] R.V. did that which was evil. 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