Genesis 45:5
be not grieved.Isa 40:1,2; Lu 23:34; 2Co 2:7,11nor angry with yourselves. Heb. neither let there be angerin your eyes. God. 7,8; 47:25; 50:20; 1Sa 1:19; 2Sa 12:12; 16:10-12; 17:14; Job 1:21Ps 105:16,17; Ac 2:23,24; 4:24-28; 7:9-15 2 Samuel 16:12
the Lord.Ge 29:32,33; Ex 2:24,25; 3:7,8; 1Sa 1:11; Ps 25:18affliction. or, tears. Heb. eye. requite.De 23:5; Isa 27:7; Mt 5:11,12; Ro 8:28; 2Co 4:17; 2Th 1:7Heb 12:10; 1Pe 4:12-19 1 Kings 12:15
the cause.The cause of all this confusion and anarchy was Rehoboam's folly, cruelty, and despotic tyranny, and this was certainly not "from the Lord," nor does the original text speak this doctrine. See an elucidation of a similar passage at 2 Sa 24:1. It says, {sibbah,} (from {savav,} to turn, change,) "the change or Revolution was from the Lord;" which is consistent with all the preceding declarations. God stirred up the people to revolt from a man who had neither skill nor humanity to govern them. God serves his own wise and righteous purpose by the imprudences and iniquities of men, and snares sinners in the work of their own hands. "He maketh the wrath of man to praise him." 24; 22:23; De 2:30; Jud 14:4; 2Ch 10:15; 22:7; 25:16,20; Ps 5:10Am 3:6; Ac 2:23; 4:28that he might.11:11,29-38; 1Sa 15:29; 2Sa 17:14; 2Ki 9:36; 10:10; Isa 14:13-17Isa 46:10,11; Da 4:35; Joh 19:23,24,28,29,32-37; Ac 3:17Ac 13:27-29 Psalms 39:9
38:13; Le 10:3; 1Sa 3:18; 2Sa 16:10; Job 1:21; 2:10; 40:4,5; Da 4:35 Isaiah 42:24
10:5,6; 45:7; 47:6; 50:1,2; 59:1,2; 63:10; De 28:49; 32:30; Jud 2:14Jud 3:8; 10:7; 2Ch 15:6; 36:17; Ne 9:26,27; Ps 106:40-42; Jer 5:15Jer 25:8,9; La 1:14,18; Am 3:6; Mt 22:7 Isaiah 45:7
form.Ge 1:3-5,17,18; Ps 8:3; 104:20-23; Jer 31:35; 2Co 4:6; Jas 1:17create darkness.Ex 10:21-23; 14:20; Jer 13:16; Eze 32:8; Joe 2:2; Am 4:13; Na 1:8Jude 1:6,13I make Peace.10:5,6; Job 2:10; 34:29; Ps 29:11; 75:7; Ec 7:13,14; Jer 18:7-10Jer 51:20; Eze 14:15-21; Am 3:6; 5:6; Ac 4:28 Amos 3:6
a trumpet.Jer 4:5; 6:1; Eze 33:3; Ho 5:8; Zep 1:16and the people.Jer 5:22; 10:7; 2Co 5:11be afraid. or, run together. shall there.That is, Shall there be any evil, or calamity, (not moral evil,) inflicted on a wicked city, which does not proceed from me, as the effect of my wrath? These animated interrogatives were intended to convince the people that they had cause for alarm, as their monstrous iniquities called down the vengeance of God to punish them with these calamities. Ge 50:20; Isa 14:24-27; 45:7; Ac 2:23; 4:28the Lord hath not done it? or, and shall not the Lord dosomewhat?
Copyright information for
TSK