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1 Kings 14 — Sermon Preparation

Below is a research summary for 1 Kings 14, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.

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Hebrew words / lemmas
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classic sermon excerpts
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preachers & commentators

1 Kings 14 in the Hebrew

Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Count Glosses
יָרׇבְעָם Yârobʻâm H3379 19 Jarobam
רְחַבְעָם Rᵉchabʻâm H7346 7 Rechabam
אֲחִיָּה ʼĂchîyâh H281 6 Achijah
מָלַךְ mâlak H4427 7 reign, ascend the throne
דָּבָר dâbâr H1697 7 word, matter
קוּם qûwm H6965 6 rise
אִשָּׁה ʼishshâh H802 6 woman

How preachers through history handled this text

7 public-domain excerpts on 1 Kings 14, from the church fathers to the Puritans.

Matthew Henry 4 Spurgeon 2 John Wesley 1

“Whether we keep an account of God's mercies to us or not, he does; and he will set them in order before us, if we are ungrateful, to our greater confusion. Ahijah foretells the speedy death of the child then sick, in mercy to him. He only in the house of Jeroboam had affection for the true worship of God, and disliked the worship of the calves. To show the power and sovereignty of his grace, God saves some out of the worst families, in whom there is some good thing towards the Lord God of Israel. …”

— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on 1 Kings 14:7–20 (Public Domain)

Places in the text

Based on ancient-geography data

  • Euphrates — 1 Kgs 14:15
  • Tirzah — 1 Kgs 14:17
  • Shiloh — 1 Kgs 14:2
  • Jerusalem — 1 Kgs 14:21
  • Egypt — 1 Kgs 14:25

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