The Hebrew text of this verse appears to be defective here, as no satisfactory meaning can be obtained from it. The true meaning of the original pa…

Shall raise him up a king. —Baasha. (See 1 Kings 15:27–30.) For, like Jeroboam, he had (see 1 Kings 16:2–4…

Moreover the Lord shall raise up a king over Israel
Baasha is meant, (1 Kings 15:29)

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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 co…