1 Kings 12:15

Geneva Bible (1560)

And the King hearkened not vnto the people: for it was the ordinance of the Lorde, that he might perfourme his saying, which the Lorde had spoken by Ahiiah the Shilonite vnto Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלֹֽא־שָׁמַ֥ע הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ אֶל־הָעָ֑ם כִּֽי־הָיְתָ֤ה סִבָּה֙ מֵעִ֣ם יְהוָ֔ה לְמַ֜עַן הָקִ֣ים אֶת־דְּבָר֗וֹ אֲשֶׁ֨ר דִּבֶּ֤ר יְהוָה֙ בְּיַד֙ אֲחִיָּ֣ה הַשִּׁילֹנִ֔י אֶל־יָרָבְעָ֖ם בֶּן־נְבָֽט׃

Transliteration

And not šāmaʿ the melek to the ʿām; for hāyĕtāh sibbâ from with YHWH, to the purpose of hāqîm ʾet-dĕbārô which dibbēr YHWH by yad ʾǎḥiyyâ the šîlōnî to yārābĕʿām ben-nĕbāṭ.

Grammar Details

• *šāmaʿ*: qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - heard/listened
• *melek*: definite noun, masculine singular - king
• *ʿām*: definite noun, masculine singular - people
• *hāyĕtāh*: qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - was/happened
• *sibbâ*: feminine singular noun - turn/cause/occasion
• *YHWH*: proper name - LORD
• *hāqîm*: hiphil infinitive construct - establish/confirm
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *dĕbārô*: noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his word
• *dibbēr*: piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - spoke
• *yad*: construct state, feminine singular - hand/by means of
• *ʾǎḥiyyâ*: proper name - Ahijah
• *šîlōnî*: gentilic adjective - Shilonite
• *yārābĕʿām*: proper name - Jeroboam
• *ben*: construct state, masculine singular - son of
• *nĕbāṭ*: proper name - Nebat

Word Meanings

• *šāmaʿ*: heard/listened/obeyed/heeded
• *sibbâ*: turn/cause/occasion/circumstance
• *hāqîm*: establish/confirm/fulfill/raise up
• *dibbēr*: spoke/said/promised

Referenced Verses

• 1 Kgs 12:24 : 24 Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go vp, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: returne euery man to his house: for this thing is done by me. They obeyed therefore the worde of the Lorde and returned, and departed, according to the worde of the Lorde.
• Deut 2:30 : 30 But Sihon the King of Heshbon would not let vs passe by him: for the Lorde thy God had hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, because hee would deliuer him into thine hand, as appeareth this day.
• Judg 14:4 : 4 But his father and his mother knewe not that it came of the Lorde, that he should seeke an occasion against the Philistims: for at that time the Philistims reigned ouer Israel.
• 1 Kgs 11:11 : 11 Wherefore the Lord sayd vnto Salomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, & thou hast not kept my couenant, and my statutes (which I commanded thee) I will surely rent the kingdome from thee, and will giue it to thy seruant.
• 2 Chr 10:15 : 15 So the king hearkened not vnto the people: for it was the ordinance of God that the Lorde might performe his saying, which hee had spoken by Ahiiah the Shilonite to Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat.
• 2 Chr 22:7 : 7 And the destruction of Ahaziah came of God in that he went to Ioram: for when he was come, he went forth with Iehoram against Iehu the sonne of Nimshi, whom the Lord had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.
• 2 Chr 25:20 : 20 But Amaziah would not heare: for it was of God, that he might deliuer them into his had, because they had sought the gods of Edom.
• Ps 5:10 : 10 Destroy them, O God: let them fall from their counsels: cast them out for the multitude of their iniquities, because they haue rebelled against thee.
• Isa 14:13-17 : 13 Yet thou saidest in thine heart, I will ascende into heauen, and exalt my throne aboue beside the starres of God: I will sitte also vpon the mount of the Congregation in the sides of the North. 14 I wil ascend aboue ye height of the cloudes, and I will be like the most high. 15 But thou shalt bee brought downe to the graue, to the sides of the pit. 16 They that see thee, shall looke vpon thee and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, and that did shake the kingdomes? 17 He made the worlde as a wildernesse, and destroied the cities thereof, and opened not the house of his prisoners.
• Isa 46:10-11 : 10 Which declare the last thing from the beginning: and from of olde, the things that were not done, saying, My counsell shall stand, and I will doe whatsoeuer I will. 11 I call a birde from the East, and the man of my counsell from farre: as I haue spoken, so will I bring it to passe: I haue purposed it, and I will doe it.
• Dan 4:35 : 35 (4:32) And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and according to his will he worketh in the armie of heauen, and in the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, nor say vnto him, What doest thou?
• Amos 3:6 : 6 Or shall a trumpet be blowen in the citie, and the people be not afraide? or shall there be euil in a citie, and the Lord hath not done it?
• John 19:23-24 : 23 Then the souldiers, when they had crucified Iesus, tooke his garments (and made foure partes, to euery souldier a part) and his coat: and the coat was without seame wouen from the toppe throughout. 24 Therefore they sayde one to another, Let vs not deuide it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be. This was that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which sayth, They parted my garments among them, and on my coate did cast lots. So the souldiers did these things in deede.
• John 19:28-29 : 28 After, when Iesus knew that all things were performed, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, he said, I thirst. 29 And there was set a vessell full of vineger: and they filled a spondge with vineger: and put it about an Hyssope stalke, and put it to his mouth.
• John 19:32-37 : 32 Then came the souldiers and brake the legges of the first, and of the other, which was crucified with Iesus. 33 But when they came to Iesus, and saw that he was dead alreadie, they brake not his legges. 34 But one of the souldiers with a speare pearced his side, and foorthwith came there out blood and water. 35 And he that sawe it, bare recorde, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might beleeue it. 36 For these things were done, that the Scripture shoulde be fulfilled, Not a bone of him shalbe broken. 37 And againe an other Scripture saith, They shall see him whom they haue thrust through.
• Acts 2:23 : 23 Him, I say, being deliuered by the determinate counsell, and foreknowledge of God, after you had taken, with wicked handes you haue crucified and slaine.
• Acts 3:17 : 17 And now brethren, I know that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your gouernours.
• Acts 4:28 : 28 To doe whatsoeuer thine hand, and thy counsell had determined before to be done.
• Acts 13:27-29 : 27 For the inhabitants of Hierusalem, and their rulers, because they knewe him not, nor yet the woordes of the Prophets, which are read euery Sabbath day, they haue fulfilled them in condemning him. 28 And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate to kill him. 29 And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him, they tooke him downe from the tree, and put him in a sepulchre.
• 1 Sam 15:29 : 29 For in deede the strength of Israel will not lye nor repent: for hee is not a man that hee should repent.
• 2 Sam 17:14 : 14 Then Absalom and all the men of Israel sayde, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better, then the counsell of Ahithophel: for the Lorde had determined to destroy the good counsell of Ahithophel, that the Lorde might bring euill vpon Absalom.
• 1 Kgs 22:23 : 23 Now therefore behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirite in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the Lord hath appoynted euill against thee.
• 2 Kgs 9:36 : 36 Wherefore they came agayne and tolde him; he said, This is the worde of the Lorde, which he spake by his seruant Eliiah the Tishbite, saying, In the fielde of Izreel shall ye dogs eate the flesh of Iezebel.
• 2 Kgs 10:10 : 10 Knowe nowe that there shal fall vnto the earth nothing of the word of the Lord, which the Lord spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the Lorde hath brought to passe the things that hee spake by his seruant Eliiah.
• 2 Chr 25:16 : 16 And as he talked with him, he said vnto him, Haue they made thee the Kings counseler? cease thou: why should they smite thee? And the Prophet ceased, but said, I knowe that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not obeyed my counsell.
• 1 Kgs 11:29-38 : 29 And at that time, when Ieroboam went out of Ierusalem, the Prophet Ahiiah the Shilonite founde him in the way, hauing a newe garment on him, and they two were alone in ye field. 30 Then Ahiiah caught the newe garment that was on him, and rent it in twelue pieces, 31 And said to Ieroboam, Take vnto thee ten pieces: for thus saith the Lorde God of Israel, Beholde, I wil rent the kingdome out of ye hands of Salomon, and will giue ten tribes to thee. 32 But he shall haue one tribe for my seruant Dauids sake, and for Ierusalem the citie, which I haue chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, 33 Because they haue forsaken me, and haue worshipped Ashtaroth the god of the Zidonians, and Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and haue not walked in my wayes (to do right in mine eyes, & my statutes, & my lawes) as did Dauid his father. 34 But I will not take the whole kingdome out of his hande: for I will make him prince all his life long for Dauid my seruants sake, whome I haue chosen, and who kept my commandements and my statutes. 35 But I will take the kingdome out of his sonnes hand, and will giue it vnto thee, euen the ten tribes. 36 And vnto his sonne will I giue one tribe, that Dauid my seruant may haue a light alway before me in Ierusalem the citie, which I haue chosen me, to put my Name there. 37 And I wil take thee, and thou shalt reigne, euen as thine heart desireth, and shalt be King ouer Israel. 38 And if thou hearken vnto all that I commande thee, and wilt walke in my wayes, and doe right in my sight, to keepe my statutes and my commandements, as Dauid my seruant did, then will I be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built vnto Dauid, and wil giue Israel vnto thee.