1 Kings 14:31

_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._ And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. This is a repetition of what was previously said (see the notes at 1 Kings 14:21). [The Septuagint omits this here; but in 1 Kings 12:24 of that version, which corresponds to this verse of the Hebrew text, it is added, Naanan, thugateer Ana huiou Naas basileoos huioon Ammoon, daughter of Ana (Hanun), the son of Nahash, king of the Ammonites.]...

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 for his temple and his worship, shows that nothing can mend the hearts of fallen men but the sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit. On this alone may we depend; for this let us daily pray, in behalf of ourselves and all around us. The splendour of their temple, the pomp of their priesthood, and all the advantages with which their religion was attended, could not prevail to keep them close to it; nothing less than the pouring out the Spirit will keep God's Israel in their allegiance to him. Sin exposes, makes poor, and weakens any people. Shishak, king of Egypt, came and took away the treasures. Sin makes the gold become dim, changes the most fine gold, and turns it into brass....

Verse 1 Kings 14:31. _NAAMAH AN AMMONITESS._] He was born of a heathen mother, and begotten of an apostate father. From such an impure fountain could sweet water possibly spring? _ABIJAM HIS SON REIGNED IN HIS STEAD._] Though righteousness cannot be propagated, because it is supernatural, yet unrighteousness may, for that is a genuine offspring of nature. Abijam was the wicked son of an apostate father and heathenish mother. Grace may be grafted on a crab stock; but let none do evil that good may come of it. A bad stock will produce bad fruit. 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_ or _Abim_; in two others it is _Abihu_, but in _eleven_ other places it is _Abiah_, as it is expressed by St. Matthew,...

SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS AND WAS BURIED ... - Compare 1 Kings 11:43. The expression is a sort of formula, and is used with respect to all the kings of Judah, except two or three. The writer probably regards the fact, which he records so carefully, as a continuation of God’s mercy to David. HIS MOTHER’S NAME ... - The mention of the queen-mother so regularly in the account of the kings of Judah is thought to indicate that she had an important position in the state. There are, however, only two instances where such a person seems to have exercised any power 1 Kings 15:13; 2 Kings 11:1. ABIJAM - Abijah (se

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 BEGAN TO REIGN, AND HE REIGNED [this reign is related at greater length in 2 Chronicles 11:1; 2 Chronicles 12:1.] SEVENTEEN YEARS [cf. 1 Kings 15:1] IN Jerusalem, the c

AND REHOBOAM SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS, AND WAS BURIED WITH HIS FATHERS IN THE CITY OF DAVID,.... Where David and Solomon were buried, 1 Kings 2:10 and his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess; which is repeated, that it might be observed as what was the leading step to his idolatry, and the means of his continuing in it: AND ABIJAM HIS SON REIGNED IN HIS STEAD; of whom there is a further account in the following chapter....

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 (1 Kings 14:21) We come now to the passing of both kings, Jeroboam of Israel and Rehoboam of Judah. Abijah (Jehovah is my father), the son of wicked Jeroboam, was sick. “That child was the one green spot in Jeroboam's life and home; the one germ of hope. And as his father loved him truly, so all Israel had set their hopes on him. Upon the inner life of this child, its struggles and its victories, lies the veil of Scripture silence; and best that it should be so. But now his pulses were b

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 wife, was the chief lady of the court. The title she bore was not _queen,_ but _lady (gebhirah,_ 1 Kings 15:13). Being an Ammonitess, Naamah would naturally have encouraged her son in idolatry. But in 1 Kings 14:23, whereas it is usual in Kings to give the verdict on the king he did good, he did evil, in this case Judah is blamed; the LXX, however, says Rehoboam did evil, etc. The sins of Judah are enumerated as building high places, setting up pillars (_maçç eboth),_ and Asherim (A.V. groves) on every hi

ABIJAM. Abijah....

_and his mother's name Ammonitess_ These words, which are identical with the closing paragraph of 1 Kings 14:21 are omitted, by the LXX. (_Vat._). Their occurrence twice so close together seems to shew that the compiler of 1 Kings was drawing from several sources, and that he copied 1 Kings 14:21-24 from one narrative just as they stood, and 1 Kings 14:25-31 from another, which both contained the same piece of information about Rehoboam's mother. Here as in 1 Kings 14:21 we should render - THE Ammonitess." In the long passage which the LXX. inserts after...