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1 Kings 9:9 KJV
1 Kings · chapter 9 · verse 9
And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.1 Kings 9:9 · King James Version
1 Kings 9:9 in context
7Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
8And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
9And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
10And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king’s house,
11(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- worshippedshâchâhto depressH7812 →
- forsookʻâzabto loosenH5800 →
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- answerʼâmarto sayH559 →
- forthyâtsâʼto go out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and…H3318 →
- EgyptMitsrayimMitsrajimH4714 →
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God had given a real answer to Solomon's prayer, and tokens of his acceptance of it, immediately, by the fire from heaven which consumed the sacrifices (as we find Ch2 7:1); but here we have a more express and distinct answer to it. Observe, I. In what way God gave him this answer.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-9