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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

1 Kings 14:30

And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days, a state of war existed as long as they both lived, which resulted in at least one pitched battle under Abijah.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 14 THE PASSING OF JEROBOAM AND REHOBOAM _ 1. Sickness and death of Jeroboam's son (1 Kings 14:1)_ 2. Jeroboam's reign and death (1 Kings 14:19) 3. Rehoboam's apostasy, punishment and death...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    REIGN OF REHOBOAM. The formula in 1 Kings 14:21 is regularly employed in Kings. The LXX make his age sixteen, and gives him twelve years. The name of the king's mother is given, since she, and not the...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    REHOBOAM. Being named first he was probably the aggressor, contrary to 1 Kings 12:24....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _all_their _days_ R.V. CONTINUALLY: as the same words are rendered in a very similar passage about Saul and David in A.V. 1 Samuel 18:29....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THERE WAS WAR BETWEEN REHOBOAM AND JEROBOAM ALL THEIR DAYS— But how does this agree with chap. 1 Kings 12:23, &c. where God commands Rehoboam and his people not to fight against the Israelites? We mus...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    I. THE FIRST THREE KINGS OF JUDAH 14:21-15:24 (931-870 B.C.) The first three kings of Judah ruled for sixty-one years. In this section the author speaks of (1) the apostasy of Rehoboam (1 Kings 14:21-...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THERE WAS WAR BETWEEN REHOBOAM AND JEROBOAM ALL THEIR DAYS._ There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam. The former was prohibited from entering on an aggressive war; but as the two kingdoms ke...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SINS OF JEROBOAM AND REHOBOAM AND THEIR PUNISHMENT 2. Shiloh] The modern Seilûn, N. of Bethel and E. of the road leading from Bethel to Shechem (Judges 21:19)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 14 AHIJAH *PROPHESIES THE END OF JEROBOAM’S RULE OVER *ISRAEL V1 At that time, King Jeroboam’s son Abijah became ill. V2 Jeroboam said t...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THERE WAS WAR ... — Of such war we have no record, since the day when Shemaiah forbade Rehoboam’s invasion of the new kingdom; nor is there even mention of any action of Israel in aid of the Egyptian...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ מִלְחָמָ֨ה הָיְתָ֧ה בֵין ־רְחַבְעָ֛ם וּ בֵ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE EARLIER KINGS OF JUDAH 1 Kings 14:21; 1 Kings 15:1 THE history of "the Jews" begins, properly speaking, from the reign of Rehoboam, and for four centuries it is mainly the history of the Davidic...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SOUTH RIVALS WORTH IN SINNING 1 Kings 14:17 Rehoboam's mother's name signifies _beauty_, and she may have been attractive in her person; but we are twice told that she was an Ammonitess, as if to emp...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In the story now recorded God is seen acting in judgment. The sickness of the son of Jeroboam was the first stroke of punishment and in connection therewith the prophet Ahijah uttered the doom of the...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam (s) all [their] days. (s) That is, all the days of Rehoboam's life....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Always. The two kingdoms were constantly divided, and did each other all the harm they could; though we know not that they ever came to a pitched battle. Roboam was too great a coward, 2 Paralipomeno...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (25) And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: (26) And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of th...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Solomon was now at the height of his glory, a vivid type of a greater than Solomon. And it is only when we see that he really does thus prefigure the Lord Jesus as King that we can understand the impo...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 14, 15, AND 16. In spite of this testimony, Jeroboam perseveres in his sin. The only one of his sons in whom any piety is seen dies; and the judgment of God...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THERE WAS WAR BETWEEN REHOBOAM AND JEROBOAM ALL THEIR DAYS. For though Rehoboam did not enter into an offensive war, and attack the children of Israel, being dissuaded from it by Shemaiah the prop...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all [their] days. Ver. 30. _All their days._] Skirmishes there were continually about the borders....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Are they not written_, &c. A register was kept of the acts of the kings of Judah, as well as of those of the kings of Israel. _And there was war_, &c. But how does this agree with 1 Kings 12:23, &c.,...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Abijah being sicke, Ieroboam sendeth his wife disguised with Presents to the prophet Ahijah at Shiloh. 5 Ahijah forewarned by God, denounceth Gods iudgement. 17 Abijah dieth and is buried. 19 Nad...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREBOAM WARNED THROUGH HIS SON'S DEATH Though God had sought to reach Jereboam's conscience by the message and actions of the man of God, this produced no effect. So God used another means, by the se...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    21-31 Here is no good said of Rehoboam, and much said to the disadvantage of his subjects. The abounding of the worst crimes, of the worst of the heathen, in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen f...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Not an invasive war with potent armies, which was forbidden, 1 KINGS 12:24, and not revived until Abijam's reign, 2CH 13; but a defensive war from those hostilities which by small parties and skirmish...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Kings 14:30 war H4421 Rehoboam H7346 Jeroboam H3379 days H3117 1 Kings 12:24,...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE REIGN OF REHOBOAM OF JUDAH C. 930-913 BC (1 KINGS 14:21). The sad thing about Rehoboam's reign would be its extreme bankruptcy. He reigned over a country which went to the excess in religious apos...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prophecy against Jeroboam and partial fulfillment. Judah's apostacy under Rehoboam and his death. CHARACTERS: God, Ahijah, Jeroboam, Rehoboam, Shishak, wife and son of Jeroboam. CONCLUSION:...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Kings 14:2. _Ahijah the prophet;_ an illustrious man of God, now full of days, and full of grace. 1 Kings 14:3. _Ten loaves._ A rustic present, that it might not excite suspicion of a royal visit. I...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam._ THE POWER AND WEAKNESS OF EXTERNAL CIRCUMSTANCES IN THE LIFE OF MAN Though this man lived fifty-eight years in this world, and for seventeen years occupied th...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 14:21__ The text now returns to Rehoboam’s reign and what has been happening in Judah. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 14:21. From incidents associated with the kingdom of ISRAEL, the historian now turns to JUDAH. 1 Kings 14:28. NAAMAH AN AMMONITESS—_Sept._ reads: “Daughter of...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE REIGN OF REHOBOAM.— 1 KINGS 14:21 AND REHOBOAM, THE SON OF SOLOMON, REIGNED IN JUDAH. REHOBOAM WAS FORTY [or twenty. See on 1 Kings 12:1] and one years old when he

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So at that time his son Abijah became sick. And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that they won't know you as the wife of Jeroboam; and go to Shiloh: for there is a...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 12:24; 1 Kings 15:6; 1 Kings 15:7; 2 Chronicles 12:15...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Was war — Not an invasive war with potent armies, which was forbidden, 1 Kings 12:24, and not revived 'till Abijam's reign, 2 Chronicles 13:1, but a defensive war from those hostilities which by small...

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