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John Gill's Exposition on 1 Kings 15:19
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father, etc.] For though Hezion, if he is the same with Rezon, was an adversary to Israel in the days of Solomon, (<111125>1 Kings 11:25), yet it seems his son was not, but was a confederate with the kings of Israel and Judah: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; taken out of the treasury of the temple and his own treasury: come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me; it was sinful in him to take the money out of the temple, to which it was dedicated; it was more so to make use of it to bribe an Heathen to break his covenant and alliance with another, in order to serve him; in which he betrayed great distrust of the Lord, and of his power to help him; which was the more aggravated, when he had had such a wonderful appearance of God for him against the Ethiopians, (see <141607>2 Chronicles 16:7,8).
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