Yet the house of David must be supported out of it the Messiah would arise. Verses 26-40 In telling the reason why God rent the kingdom from the house of Solomon, Ahijah warned Jeroboam to take heed of sinning away his preferment. Though they were moved by principles of ambition or revenge, God used them to correct Solomon. If against us, he can make us fear even the least, and the very grasshopper shall be a burden. Verses 14-25 While Solomon kept close to God and to his duty, there was no enemy to give him uneasiness but here we have an account of two. Thus it must remain uncertain to us till the day of judgment, whether or not Solomon was left to suffer the everlasting displeasure of an offended God. The guilt may be taken away, but not the reproach that will remain. Though we have reason to hope that he repented, and found mercy, yet the Holy Ghost did not expressly record it, but left it doubtful, as a warning to others not to sin. Verses 9-13 The Lord told Solomon, it is likely by a prophet, what he must expect for his apostacy. Let us watch and be sober: ours is a dangerous warfare, and in an enemy's country, while our worst foes are the traitors in our own hearts. We see how weak we are of ourselves, without the grace of God let us therefore live in constant dependence on that grace. Let him that thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall. If our sinful passions are not crucified and mortified by the grace of God, they never will die of themselves, but will last even when opportunities to gratify them are taken away. Nor will old age cure the heart of any evil propensity. Nothing forms in itself a security against the deceitfulness and depravity of the human heart. Solomon became a public worshipper of abominable idols! Probably he by degrees gave way to pride and luxury, and thus lost his relish for true wisdom.
Verses 1-8 There is not a more melancholy and astonishing instance of human depravity in the sacred Scriptures, than that here recorded. Solomon's wives and concubines, His idolatry.
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