1Ki 14:31, 2Ch 13 | TSK | STEP | A.M. 3046. B.C. 958. Rehoboam. his mother's. Abijam.Dr. Kennicott observes, that the name of this king of Judah is now expressed three ways; here and in four other places, it is Abijam; in two others (2 Ch 13:20, 21) it is Abijahu; but in eleven others it is Abijah or Abiah, as it is expressed by St. Matthew, (ch. 1:7,) [Abia;] and this is the reading of thirteen of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS., and of thirteen respectable editions of the Hebrew Bible. The Syriac is the same. The Septuagint in the London Polyglott has [Abiou,] Abihu; but in the Complutensian and Antwerp Polyglotts it has [Abia,] Abiah; and the Editio Princeps of the Vulgate, some MSS. and the text in these two Polyglotts, instead of Abiam, have Abia. Abia. Abijah. Abia.

1 Kings 14:31

A.M. 3046. B.C. 958. Rehoboam.

his mother's.

Abijam.Dr. Kennicott observes, that the name of this king of Judah is now expressed three ways; here and in four other places, it is Abijam; in two others (2 Ch 13:20, 21) it is Abijahu; but in eleven others it is Abijah or Abiah, as it is expressed by St. Matthew, (ch. 1:7,) [Abia;] and this is the reading of thirteen of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS., and of thirteen respectable editions of the Hebrew Bible. The Syriac is the same. The Septuagint in the London Polyglott has [Abiou,] Abihu; but in the Complutensian and Antwerp Polyglotts it has [Abia,] Abiah; and the Editio Princeps of the Vulgate, some MSS. and the text in these two Polyglotts, instead of Abiam, have Abia.

1Ch 3:10

Abia.

2Ch 12:16

Abijah.

Mt 1:7

Abia.

2 Chronicles 13

1 Abijah succeeding makes war against Jeroboam.

4 He declares the right of his cause.

13 Trusting in God, he overcomes Jeroboam.

21 The wives and children of Abijah.

A.M. 3046-3049. B.C. 958-955. in the eighteenth. See onch.

12:16; 1Ki 15:1-8

Michaiah.

11:20

Maachah the daughter of Absalom.

1Ki 15:2

Abishalom. Gibeah.

Jos 18:28

Gibeath.

Jud 19:14,16; 1Sa 10:26

A.M. 3047. B.C. 957. And there was.

1Ki 15:6,7

set. Heb. bound together.

1Sa 17:1-3

four hundred.

11:1; 14:8; 17:14-18; 26:12,13; 1Ch 21:5

eight hundred.

14:9

Zemaraim.Zemaraim could not be, as some have supposed, the same as the hill of Samaria, [Shômerown ,] so called from Shemer, in the days of Omri; but was probably a hill on the confines of Ephraim, near Zemaraim, a city of Benjamin, near Bethel.

Ge 10:18; Jos 18:22

Hear me.

15:2; Jud 9:7

Ought ye not.

Ne 5:9; Pr 1:29; 2Pe 3:5

the Lord.

Jud 11:21-24; Jer 27:5-7; Da 4:25-32; 5:18

to David.

1Sa 16:1,12; 2Sa 7:12-16; 1Ki 8:20; 1Ch 17:11,14; 28:4,5

Ps 89:19-37; Jer 33:21,22,26; Lu 1:31-33

a covenant of salt.

Le 2:13; Nu 18:19; Eze 43:24; Mr 9:49,50

rebelled.

10:19; 1Ki 11:26; 12:20,27

vain men.

Jud 9:4; 11:3; 1Sa 22:2; Job 30:8; Ps 26:4; Pr 12:11; 28:19; Ac 17:5

Tit 1:10

the children of Belial.

De 13:13; 1Ki 21:10,13

young.

10:16; 12:13; Ec 10:16; Isa 3:4; 1Co 14:20; Heb 5:12

could not.

11:1-4

the kingdom.

9:8; Ps 2:1-6; Isa 7:6,7; 9:6,7; Lu 19:14,27

a great multitude.

14:9-11; 20:6,12; Ps 33:16

with you golden.

11:15; 1Ki 12:28; 14:9; Ho 8:5,6

cast out.

11:14,15

made you priests.

1Ki 12:31-33; 13:33

consecrated himself. Heb. fill his hand.

Ex 32:29; Le 16:32; 1Ch 29:5; *margins

young.

Ex 29:1,35; Le 8:2

no gods.

De 32:17; 2Ki 19:18; Jer 2:11; Ho 8:6; Ac 19:26; Ga 4:8

the Lord.We have not abandoned the Lord; and we still serve him according to His own law. But what Abijah urged concerning the state of religion in Judah was not strictly just; and, as spoken by him, it favoured ostentation. Abijah himself was but an indifferent character; and idolatry was evidently connived at in his days. Yet it was true, that the men of Judah had the priests, ordinances, and worship of Jehovah among them; that there were numbers of pious worshippers in the land; that theirs was the more righteous cause; that Jehovah was on their side as their Captain, while Israel fought against him; and that the presence of the priests with the sacred trumpets was a token of His presence and favour.

11:16,17; Ex 19:5,6; Zec 13:9

the priests.

Ex 29:1-37; Nu 16:40; 18:1-7

they burn.

2:4; Ex 29:38

sweet incense.

Ex 30:1-10; Le 2:1-3; Nu 16:6,46; Lu 1:9; Re 8:3,4

shewbread.

Ex 25:30; Le 24:5-9

the candlestick.

Ex 25:31-39; 27:20,21; Le 24:2-4

we keep.

Ge 26:5; Nu 9:19; Eze 44:8,15; 48:11

God.

Nu 23:21; 1Sa 4:5-7; Isa 8:10; Zec 10:5; Ro 8:31

for our captain.

De 20:4; Jos 5:13-15; Ps 20:7; Heb 2:10

his priests.

Nu 10:8,9; 31:6; Jos 6:13-20

fight ye.

Job 15:25,26; 40:9; Isa 45:9; Jer 50:24; Ac 5:39; 9:4,5

ye shall not.

24:20; Nu 14:41; De 28:29; Job 9:4; Isa 54:17; Jer 2:37; Eze 17:9

an ambushment.

20:22; Jos 8:4; Pr 21:30; Jer 4:22

looked back.

Ex 14:10; Jos 8:20; Jud 20:33-43; 2Sa 10:8-14

cried.

14:11; 18:31; Ps 50:15; 91:5

the priests.

as the men.

20:21; Jos 6:16,20; Jud 7:18-22; Ps 47:1,5

God smote.

14:12; Nu 32:4; Jos 11:8; Jud 4:15; 2Ki 5:1; Ps 118:4-7; Isa 37:36

God delivered.

Ge 14:20; De 2:36; 3:3; Jos 10:12; 21:44; Jud 1:4; 11:21; 1Sa 23:7

five hundred.

3,12; 28:6; Isa 10:16-19; 37:36; Na 1:5; 1Co 10:22

relied.

16:8,9; 20:20; 2Ki 18:5; 1Ch 5:20; Ps 22:4,5; 146:5; Da 3:28; Na 1:7

Eph 1:12

took cities.

Jos 10:19,39; 11:12; 1Sa 31:7

Jeshanah.Jeshanah, according to the Talmud, was not far from Sephoris. Perhaps it is the Migdal-Senna of Eusebius, eight miles north of Jericho.

Ephrain.Ephrain, or Ephron, a city of Benjamin, is placed by Eusebius, eight miles north of Jerusalem, near Bethel. Josephus calls Ephrain and Bethel two little cities; and places the former in the tribe of Benjamin, near the wilderness of Judea, in the way to Jericho.

15:8; Jos 15:9

Ephron.

Joh 11:54

did.

Ps 18:37,38

Lord.

1Sa 25:38; 26:10; Eze 24:16; Ac 12:23

he died.

1Ki 14:20; 15:9

waxed.

2Sa 5:12,13

fourteen wives.

11:21

begat.

Jud 8:30,31; 9:5; 10:4

story. or, commentary. Iddo.

9:29; 12:15