Verse 9
THE LORD’S ANGER AGAINST SOLOMON, 1 Kings 11:9-13.
9. The Lord was angry Divine anger, as presented in the Bible, is no sudden burst of passion, no low and hateful motion of revenge, as human anger often is, and with which, perhaps, too many are ever prone to associate their idea of Divine anger. It is rather the deep, eternal antagonism of holiness to sin, of truth to error, of right to wrong. Our God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance; and how much soever he may love a human soul as such, if that soul cleaves unto sin, it must of necessity place itself along with the sin in enmity towards God, and so become obnoxious to the Divine anger. See note on Judges 2:14.
Appeared unto him twice At Gibeon and Jerusalem. 1 Kings 3:5; 1 Kings 9:2, where see notes.
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