![]() Jeroboam obviously did not accept this invitation. The prophecy from the man of God was like most every message of coming judgment – an implicit invitation to repentance. Arrest him: Jeroboam’s reaction was immediate – he sought to silence the messenger rather than respond to the message. ![]() Surely the altar shall split apart, and the ashes on it shall be poured out: This would be a convincing sign, and a direct rebuke to the idolatrous worship at that altar.Ĭ. He gave a sign the same day: The prophecy of the man of God would not be fulfilled for hundreds of years, so an immediate sign was given to confirm the word to the present-day hearers.ī. The altar also was split apart, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.Ī. (3-5) Signs to confirm the prophet’s words.Īnd he gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign which the LORD has spoken: Surely the altar shall split apart, and the ashes on it shall be poured out.” So it came to pass when King Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, who cried out against the altar in Bethel, that he stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, “Arrest him!” Then his hand, which he stretched out toward him, withered, so that he could not pull it back to himself. He went to his grave worried about the fulfillment of this prophecy, which was a sort of immediate judgment on Jeroboam. We know that this didn’t happen for some 350 years, but Jeroboam didn’t know that in advance. This was a special rebuke and source of concern to Jeroboam, who was always aware of the threat from his neighbor to the south (as in 1 Kings 12:27). This was more than a pronouncement of judgment against the altar it also announced that the judgment would come through a ruler of Judah ( the house of David). 2 Kings 23:15 documents the fulfillment of this prophecy in the days of Josiah, King of Judah: Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down and he burned the high place and crushed it to powder, and burned the wooden image. Behold, a child, Josiah by name, shall be born to the house of David and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you: This is a remarkable prophecy that would be precisely fulfilled 340 years later. ![]() He demonstrates that one does not need to be famous to be significantly used by God.ī. This anonymous man of God was used in an important way. This is a sad commentary on the spiritual state of Jeroboam’s kingdom. A man of God went from Judah to Bethel: Apparently, there were no qualified messengers within the northern kingdom of Israel. Then he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said, “O altar, altar! Thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, a child, Josiah by name, shall be born to the house of David and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men’s bones shall be burned on you.’”Ī. (1-2) The coming destruction of the altar in Bethel.Īnd behold, a man of God went from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD, and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. ![]() 1 Kings 13 – The Man of God from Judah A. ![]()
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