1-4 Abijah being sick, Jeroboam sends his wife, disguised, with presents to the prophet Ahijah at Shiloh 5-16 Ahijah forewarned by God, denounces God's judgment 17,18 Abijah dies, and is buried 19,20 Nadab succeeds Jeroboam 21-24 Rehoboam's wicked reign, 25-28 Shishak spoils Jerusalem 29-31 Abijam succeeds Rehoboam

that time 1Ki 13:33,34

the son 1Ki 14:12,13 Ex 20:5 1Sa 4:19,20 31:2 2Sa 12:15

2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.

disguise thyself 1Ki 14:5,6 22:30 1Sa 28:8 2Sa 14:2 2Ch 18:29 Lu 12:2

Ahijah 1Ki 11:29-38

3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.

And take 1Ki 13:7 1Sa 9:7,8 2Ki 4:42 5:5,15 8:7-9

with the [heb] in thine hand
cracknels. or, cakes. Nikkoodim, spotted, or perforated cakes; either, as some suppose, thin cakes pierced through with holes, the same as is called {Jews' bread} to the present day, and used by them at the passover; or, as Mr. Harmer imagines, cakes {spotted} with seeds, as with sesamum, Roman coriander, etc. such as he proves from Rauwolff, Russell, and Hanway, are still used in the East. This was certainly not a present that proclaimed royalty; but it does not appear to have been, in the estimation of the East, a present that proclaimed royalty; but it does not appear to have been, in the estimation of the East, a present only fit for a country woman to have made, as Bp. Patrick supposes: for D'Arvieus informs us, that when he waited on an Arab emir, his mother and sisters sent him a present of pastry, honey, and fresh butter, with a bason of sweetmeats of Damascus.

cruse. or, bottle
he shall tell 2Ki 1:2 8:8 Lu 7:2,3 Joh 4:47,48 11:3

4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

Shiloh 1Ki 11:29 Jos 18:1 1Sa 4:3,4 Jer 7:12-14

for his eyes Ge 27:1 48:10 De 34:7 1Sa 3:2 4:15 Ps 90:10 Ec 12:3

were set by reason of his age [heb] stood for his hoariness

5 And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.

the Lord 2Ki 4:27 6:8-12 Ps 139:1-4 Pr 21:30 Am 3:7 Ac 10:19,20

6 And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.

thou wife Job 5:13 Ps 33:10

why feignest 1Ki 14:2,5 Eze 14:3-5,7,8 Lu 20:20-23 Ac 5:3-5,9-10 Heb 4:13

for I am 1Ki 14:10,11 13:20-22 20:42 21:18-24 22:8 1Sa 15:16,26 28:18 Jer 21:2-7 Eze 2:4,5 Da 4:19-25 4:19-25 5:17-28 Mr 14:21

heavy tidings [heb] hard tidings

7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,

Forasmuch 1Ki 12:24 16:2 1Sa 2:27-30 15:16 2Sa 12:7,8

8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes;

rent 1Ki 11:30,31

my servant David 1Ki 3:14 11:33-38 15:5 2Ch 17:3 28:1 Ac 13:22,36

9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

hast done 1Ki 14:16 12:28 13:33,34 15:34 16:31

thou hast gone De 32:16,17,21 Jud 5:8 2Ch 11:15 Ps 106:19,20 115:4-8 Isa 44:9-20 Jer 10:14-16

to provoke 1Ki 14:22 De 9:8-16,24 2Ki 21:3 23:26 2Ch 33:6 Ps 78:40,56 106:29 Jer 7:9,10 Eze 8:2,17 1Co 10:22

cast me Ne 9:26 Ps 50:17 Eze 23:35

10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.

I will bring 1Ki 15:25-30 Am 3:6

him that pisseth 1Ki 16:11 21:21 1Sa 25:22,34 2Ki 9:8,9

him that is shut up De 32:36 2Ki 14:26

as a man taketh 1Sa 2:30 2Ki 9:37 21:13 Job 20:7 Ps 83:10 Isa 5:25 14:19,23 Jer 8:2 Eze 26:4 Zep 1:17 Mal 2:3 Lu 14:34,35

11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it.

that dieth 1Ki 16:4 21:19,23,24 Isa 66:24 Jer 15:3 Eze 39:17-19 Re 19:17,18

12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.

when thy feet 1Ki 14:3,16,17 2Ki 1:6,16 Joh 4:50-52

13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

shall mourn Nu 20:29 Jer 22:10,18

there is found 2Ch 12:12 19:3 Job 19:28 Eze 18:14 Phm 1:6 2Pe 2:8,9

14 Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.

the Lord 1Ki 15:27-29

but what Ec 8:11 Eze 7:2-7 12:22-28 Jas 5:9 2Pe 2:3

15 For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.

the Lord 1Sa 12:25 2Ki 17:6,7

as a reed Mt 11:7 Lu 7:24

root up israel De 29:28 Ps 52:5 Pr 2:22 Am 2:9 Zep 2:4 Mt 15:13

this good land Le 26:32-34,43 De 4:26,27 28:36,63-68 29:24-28 Jos 23:15,16

shall scatter 2Ki 15:29 17:6,23 18:11,12 Am 5:27 Ac 7:43

beyond the river i.e. Beyond the river Euphrates
because Ex 34:13,14 De 12:3,4 Isa 1:28,29

provoking 1Ki 14:9,23,24

16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.

he shall give israel Ps 81:12 Isa 40:24 Ho 9:11,12,16,17

who did sin 1Ki 12:30 13:34 15:30,34 16:2 Ex 32:21,35 Jer 5:31 Ho 5:11,12 Mic 6:16 Mat 18:7 Ro 14:13

17 And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;

Tirzah Tirzah was a city of Ephraim, to which Jeroboam belonged; and appears to have been pleasantly situated, as it is said in Ca. 6:4, `Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah,' though its precise situation cannot now be ascertained. it seems to have been the {royal city}, and the seat of government for a long time after the revolt of the ten tribes, till Omri built Samaria. 1Ki 15:21,33 16:6,8,9,15,23 Jos 12:24 So 6:4

when she came 1Ki 14:12,13 1Sa 2:20-34 4:18-20

18 And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.

19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

A.M. 3029-3050 B.C. 975-954
how he warred 1Ki 14:30 2Ch 13:2-20

book 1Ki 14:29 15:32 16:5,14,20,27 22:39 1Ch 27:24 Es 6:1

20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.

slept [heb] lay down 1Ki 2:10 11:43 Job 14:12 Ps 3:5 4:8

Nadab 1Ki 15:25-31

21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.

Rehoboam 1Ki 11:43 2Ch 12:13 13:7

the city 1Ki 8:16,44 11:36 Ps 78:68,69 87:1,2 132:13,14 Isa 12:6

to put his name Ex 20:24 De 12:5,21

Naamah 1Ki 14:31 De 23:3 2Ch 12:13

22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.

Judah Jud 3:7,12 4:1 2Ki 17:19 2Ch 12:1 Jer 3:7-11

they provoked 1Ki 14:9 De 4:24 29:28 32:16-21 Ps 78:58 Isa 65:3,4 1Co 10:22

all 1Ki 16:30 2Ki 21:11 Eze 16:47,48

23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

built 1Ki 3:2 De 12:2 Isa 57:5 Eze 16:24,25 20:28,29

images. or, standing images, or statues Le 26:1

groves Mic 5:14 De 12:2 2Ki 17:9,10 21:3-7 2Ch 28:4 Jer 17:2

under every Isa 57:5 Jer 3:13

24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

And there 1Ki 15:12 22:46 Ge 19:5 De 23:17 Jud 19:22 2Ki 23:7 Ro 1:24-27 1Co 6:9

25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:

A.M. 3034 B.C. 970
Shishak 1Ki 11:40 2Ch 12:2-4

26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

he took away 1Ki 7:51 15:18 2Ki 24:13 2Ch 12:9-11 Ps 39:6 89:35-45

the shields of gold 1Ki 10:16,17 2Ch 9:15,16 Pr 23:5 Ec 2:18,19

27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brazen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house.

made La 4:1,2

guard [heb] runners 1Ki 14:1,5 18:46 1Sa 8:11 22:17 2Sa 15:1

28 And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.

the guard chamber 2Ch 12:11

29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

A.M. 3029-3046 B.C. 975-958
are they not written 1Ki 14:19 11:41 15:23 22:45 2Ch 12:15

30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

1Ki 12:24 15:6,7 2Ch 12:15

31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.

A.M. 3046 B.C. 958
Rehoboam 1Ki 14:20 11:43 15:3,24 22:50 2Ch 12:16

his mother's 1Ki 14:21

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 (2ch 13:20,21) it is {Abihahu}; but in {eleven} others it is {Abijah or Abiah}, as it is expressed by 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 Polyglot has (), Abihu; but in the Complutensian and Antwerp Polyglots it has (), Abiah; and the Editio Princeps of the Vulgate, some MSS. and the text in these two Polyglots, instead of Abiam, have Abia. 1Ch 3:10

Abia 2Ch 12:16

Abijah Mt 1:7

Abia