1 Kings 11:14

And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king’s seed in Edom.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
LORD	יְהוָ֤ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
up	וַיָּ֨קֶם vai.Ya.kem	H6965	to rise (in various applications · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
adversary	שָׂטָן֙ sa.Tan	H7854	an opponent · noun, common masculine singular absolute
Solomon	לִשְׁלֹמֹ֔ה lish.lo.Moh	H8010	Shelomah · preposition + proper noun, a man's name
Hadad	הֲדַ֣ד ha.Dad	H1908	Hadad · proper noun, a man's name
Edomite	הָאֲדֹמִ֑י ha.'a.do.Mi	H130	an Edomite · definite article + noun, gentilic masculine singular absolute
king’s	הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ ha.Me.lekh	H4428	a king · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
seed	מִזֶּ֧רַע mi.Ze.ra'	H2233	seed · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
Edom	בֶּאֱדֽוֹם be.'e.Dom	H123	Edom · preposition + proper noun, a man's name

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

1 Samuel 26:19 Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept…
2 Samuel 7:14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the chi…
2 Samuel 24:1 And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
1 Kings 12:15 Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by…
1 Chronicles 5:26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them…
Psalms 89:30-34 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
Isaiah 10:26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the…
Isaiah 13:17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 11:14-25

While Solomon kept closely to God and to his duty there was no adversary nor evil occurrent (Kg1 5:4), nothing to create him any disturbance or uneasiness in the least; but here we have an account of two adversaries that appeared against him, inconsiderable, and that could not have done any thing worth taking notice of if Solomon had not first made God his enemy. What hurt could Hadad or Rezon have done to so great and powerful a king as Solomon was if he had not, by sin, made himself mean and weak? And then those little people menace and insult him. If God be on our side, we need not fear the greatest adversary; but, if he be against us, he can made us fear the least, and the very grasshopp…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Kings 11:14

SOLOMON'S ADVERSARIES. (1Ki. 11:14-40) the Lord stirred up an adversary--that is, permitted him, through the impulse of his own ambition, or revenge, to attack Israel. During the war of extermination, which Joab carried on in Edom (Sa2 8:13), this Hadad, of the royal family, a mere boy when rescued from the sword of the ruthless conqueror, was carried into Egypt, hospitably entertained, and became allied with the house of the Egyptian king. In after years, the thought of his native land and his lost kingdom taking possession of his mind, he, on learning the death of David and Joab, renounced the ease, possessions, and glory of his Egyptian residence, to return to Edom and attempt the recove…

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Adam Clarke on 1 Kings 11:14

The Lord stirred up an adversary - A satan, שטן. When he sent to Hiram to assist him in building the temple of the Lord, he could say, There was no satan, see Kg1 5:4; and all his kingdom was in peace and security, - every man dwelt under his vine, and under his fig tree, Kg1 4:25 : but now that he had turned away from God, three satans rise up against him at once, Hadad, Rezon, and Jeroboam.

John Gill on 1 Kings 11:14

The Church Fathers

The adversary has no power against us unless God has previously permitted it, in order that all our fear and devotion and obedience may be turned to God, since in temptations nothing is permitted evil, unless the power is granted by God.… Moreover, power is given to evil against us according to our sins, as it is written: "Who has given Jacob for spoil and Israel to those who despoiled him? Has not God, against whom they have sinned and were unwilling to walk in his ways and to hear his law, even poured out upon them the indignation of his fury?" And again when Solomon sinned and departed from the precepts and the ways of the Lord, it is set down: "And the Lord stirred up the adversary against Solomon himself."
— Cyprian, Treatise IV. On the Lord's Prayer 25

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Dictionary and topics

Adversary — (Heb. satan), an opponent or foe (1 Kings 5:4; 11:14, 23, 25; Luke 13:17); one that speaks against another, a complainant (Matt. 5:25; Luke 12:58); an enemy (Luke 18:3), and specially the devil (1…
Hadad — Adod, brave(?), the name of a Syrian god. (1.) An Edomite king who defeated the Midianites (Gen. 36:35; 1 Chr. 1:46). (2.) Another Edomite king (1 Chr. 1:50, 51), called also Hadar (Gen. 36:39; 1…
Idolatry — Image-worship or divine honour paid to any created object. Paul describes the origin of idolatry in Rom. 1:21-25: men forsook God, and sank into ignorance and moral corruption (1:28). The forms of…
Satan — Adversary; accuser. When used as a proper name, the Hebrew word so rendered has the article “the adversary” (Job 1:6-12; 2:1-7). In the New Testament it is used as interchangeable with Diabolos, or…
Solomon — Peaceful, (Heb. Shelomoh), David’s second son by Bathsheba, i.e., the first after their legal marriage (2 Sam. 12). He was probably born about B.C. 1035 (1 Chr. 22:5; 29:1). He succeeded his father…
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Edomites · David makes conquest of — David makes conquest of
Edomites, The · Were stirred up against Solomon — Were stirred up against Solomon
Hadad · .Adversary of — .Adversary of
Judgments · General references — General references

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

1 Kings 11:14

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 11:14-25

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Kings 11:14

Adam Clarke on 1 Kings 11:14

John Gill on 1 Kings 11:14

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

1 Kings 11:14

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 11:14-25

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Kings 11:14

Adam Clarke on 1 Kings 11:14

John Gill on 1 Kings 11:14

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Kings 11:14-40

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 1 Kings 11:14-40

Rashi on 1 Kings 11:11