1-kings 13:34
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
American King James Version (AKJV)
And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
American Standard Version (ASV)
And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
And this became a sin in the family of Jeroboam, causing it to be cut off and sent to destruction from the face of the earth.
Webster's Revision
And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from the face of the earth.
World English Bible
This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth.
English Revised Version (ERV)
And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
Definitions for 1-kings 13:34
Clarke's 1-kings 13:34 Bible Commentary
And this thing became sin - These abominations were too glaring, and too insulting to the Divine Majesty, to be permitted to last; therefore his house was cut off, and destroyed from the face of the earth.
A Holy priesthood, a righteous ministry, is a blessing to any state, because it has a most powerful effect on the morals of the community; inducing order, sobriety, and habits of industry, among the people: on the contrary, the profligacy of the clergy, and false principles of religion, are the most likely to unsettle a kingdom, and to bring about destructive revolutions in the state. This is the principle on which all national establishments of religion were originally formed. The state thought proper to secure a permanency of religion, that religion might secure the safety of the state; because it was supposed from the general aversion of men from good, that, if left to themselves, they would have no religion at all. Where the religion of the country is pure, founded solely on the oracles of God, it deserves the utmost sanction of the state, as well as the attention of every individual. A Christian state has surely authority to enact, The Christian religion is and shall be the religion of this land; and, prejudice apart, should not the laws provide for the permanence of this system? Is the form of Christianity likely to be preserved in times of general profligacy, if the laws do not secure its permanence? What would our nation have been if we had not had a version of the sacred writings established by the authority of the laws: and a form of sound words for general devotion established by the same authority? Whatever the reader may do the writer thanks God for the religious establishment of his country. For abuses in church or state, he is the last to contend.
Barnes's 1-kings 13:34 Bible Commentary
This persistence in wrong, after the warning given him, brought a judgment, not only on Jeroboam himself, but on his family. Jeroboam's departure from the path of right forfeited the crown 1 Kings 11:38; and in that forfeiture was involved naturally the destruction of his family, for in the East, as already observed, when one dynasty supplants another, the ordinary practice is for the new king to destroy all the males belonging to the house of his predecessor. See 1 Kings 15:29.
Wesley's 1-kings 13:34 Bible Commentary
13:34 Sin - Either, an occasion of sin, and means of hardening all his posterity in their idolatry: or, a punishment, for so the word sinis often used. This his obstinate continuance in his idolatry, after suchwarnings, was the utter ruin of all his family. They betray themselveseffectually, who endeavour to support themselves by any sin.