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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Kings 14:10 - 14:10
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I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam - Strong expressions are here used to indicate the utter extirpation of his house;
him that is shut up and left in Israel - means those who were concealed with the greatest privacy, as the heirs of royalty often are where polygamy prevails; the other phrase, from the loose garments of the East having led to a different practice from what prevails in the West, cannot refer to men; it must signify either a very young boy, or rather, perhaps, a dog, so entire would be the destruction of Jeroboam’s house that none, not even a dog, belonging to it should escape. This peculiar phrase occurs only in regard to the threatened extermination of a family (1Sa 25:22-34). See the manner of extermination (1Ki 16:4; 1Ki 21:24).