two and twenty years So that Jeroboam's death occurred in the second year of the reign of Asa, king of Judah. Cf. 1 Kings 15:9; 1 Kings 15:25. It appears from 2 Chronicles 13:20 to have been by some sudden visitation. -The Lord struck him, and he died."

Nadab his son We have only Abijah and Nadab mentioned of Jeroboam's family, but perhaps we may infer from the language of 1 Kings 15:29, that these were not the whole of his children.

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