1 Kings 11:14

Origen

• Origen, A Letter from Origen to Gregory Chapter 1

  “Ader at least, the Idumæan; so long as he was in the land of Israel, and had not tasted the bread of the Egyptians, made no idols.” — editor's note: Origen evidently confounds Hadad the Edomite, of 1 Kings xi. 14, with Jeroboam.

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Jerome

• Jerome, Letters Letter 108

  “So the Lord stirred up against Paula Hadad the Edomite to buffet her that she might not be exalted, and warned her frequently by the thorn in her flesh not to be elated by the greatness of her own virtues or to fancy that, compared with other women, she had attained the summit of perfection.” — editor's note: The enemy of Solomon—1 Kings xi. 14. Who Paula’s enemy may have been we do not know.

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Cyprian of Carthage

• Cyprian of Carthage, On the Lord's Prayer

  “And again, when Solomon sinned, and departed from the Lord’s commandments and ways, it is recorded, “And the Lord stirred up Satan against Solomon himself.”” — editor's note: 1 Kings xi. 14.

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Gregory of Nazianzus

• Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 23

  “He who once stirred up the wicked Hadad against Israel, stirred up against him the prefect of the province of Pontus; nominally, from annoyance connected with some poor creature of a woman, but in reality as a part of the struggle of impiety against the truth.” — editor's note: 1 Kings xi. 14.

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion III.19Book III

  “For Satan stirred up an Edomite as an enemy against him.” — editor's note: In 1 Kings xi. 14, “the Lord” is said to have done this. Comp. 2 Sam. xxiv. 1 with 1 Chron. xxi. i.

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• 1 Kings 12:28

  Cited together in A Letter from Origen to Gregory Chapter 1.

• 1 Chronicles 21:1

  Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.19.

• Psalm 2:7

  Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.19.

• Psalm 132:11

  Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.19.

• Isaiah 42:6

  Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.19.

• Isaiah 42:7

  Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.19.

• Isaiah 55:3

  Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.19.

• Isaiah 55:4

  Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.19.

• Isaiah 55:5

  Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.19.

• Matthew 7:7

  Cited together in A Letter from Origen to Gregory Chapter 1.

• Luke 11:9

  Cited together in A Letter from Origen to Gregory Chapter 1.

• John 10:3

  Cited together in A Letter from Origen to Gregory Chapter 1.

• Hebrews 3:14

  Cited together in A Letter from Origen to Gregory Chapter 1.

• 2 Samuel 24:1

  Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.19.