1 Kings 13:1
And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah,.... Whom Josephus {x} calls Jadon, perhaps the same with Iddo, who is by the Jewish writers {y} generally thought to be this man of God, and which may seem to be countenanced by 2 Chronicles 9:29 but cannot be, because this man was quickly slain, whereas Iddo lived after Rehoboam, and wrote his acts, first and last, nay, after Ahijah his son, 2 Chronicles 13:22 and for the same reason Shemaiah cannot be the man of God, 1 Kings 12:22, though Tertullian {z} calls him Sameas, and designs Shemaiah: but, whoever he was, he came
by the word of the LORD to Bethel: that is, by his command:
and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense; at the time he came, 1 Kings 12:33.
{x} Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 8. c. 8. sect. 3.)
{y} Seder Olam Rabba, c. 20. Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 11. 1. Jarch & Kimchi in loc.
{z} De Jejuniis, c. 16.