1 Kings 15:1

_NOW IN THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF KING JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT REIGNED ABIJAM OVER JUDAH._ Abijam. His name was at first Abijah (2 Chronicles 12:16), 'Jah,' the name of God, according to an ancient fashion, being conjoined with it. But afterward, when he was found 'walking in all the sins of his father,' that honourable addition was withdrawn, and his name in sacred history changed into Abijam (Lightfoot)....

1-8 Abijam's heart was not perfect with the Lord his God; he wanted sincerity; he began well, but he fell off, and walked in all the sins of his father, following his bad example, though he had seen the bad consequences of it. David's family was continued as a lamp in Jerusalem, to maintain the true worship of God there, when the light of Divine truth was extinguished in all other places. The Lord has still taken care of his cause, while those who ought to have been serviceable thereto have lived and perished in their sins. The Son of David will still continue a light to his church, to establish it in truth and righteousness to the end of time. There are two kinds of fulfilling the law, one legal, the other by the gospel. Legal is, when men do all things required in the law, and that by themselves. None ever thus fulfilled the law but Christ, and Adam before his fall. The gospel manner...

CHAPTER XV _Abijam's wicked reign, and death_, 1-8. _Asa succeeds him in the kingdom of Judah, and rules well_, 9-15. _He makes a league with the king of Syria against Baasha king of_ _Israel, who is obliged to desist in his attempts against Judah_, 16-22. _He is diseased in his feet and dies, and is succeeded by his_ _son Jehoshaphat_, 23-25. _Nadab, son of Jeroboam, reigns over Israel; but is slain by_ _Baasha, who reigns in ha stead_, 26-28. _Baasha destroys all the house of Jeroboam, according to the_...

EXPOSITION THE REIGNS OF ABIJAM AND ASA, KINGS OF JUDAH. _The Reign of Abijam_. 1 KINGS 15:1 NOW IN THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF KING JEROBOAM, THE SON OF NEBAT, REIGNED ABIJAM [see note on 1 Kings 14:31. It is implied in 2 Chronicles 11:20-14 that he was not the firstborn among Rehoboam's twenty-eight sons, but the eldest son of the favourite wife. As he left behind him thirty-eight children ...

NOW IN THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF KING JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT REIGNED ABIJAM OVER JUDAH. That is, began to reign; and by this it appears that Rehoboam was in the eighteenth year of his reign when he died, for he and Jeroboam began their reign at the same time....

ABBIJAM Called Abijah, (2 Chronicles 13:1)....

3. ABIJAM AND ASA, KINGS OF JUDAH CHAPTER 15 _ 1. Abijam of Judah (1 Kings 15:1; 2 Chronicles 13)_ 2. Asa of Judah (1 Kings 15:9; 1 Kings 2 Chronicles 14-16) Abijam is called in Chronicles Abijah; in 2 Chronicles 13:21 he is called Abijahu. Abijam was undoubtedly the older form. It is possible that on account of his great address of rebuke to Jeroboam (2 Chronicles 13:4) they may have called him Abijah (Jehovah is my fat

ABIJAM AND ASA OF JUDAH, AND NADAB AND BAASHA OF ISRAEL. Abijam, called Abijah (2 Chronicles 13:1), had a short and evil reign. It would appear, notwithstanding 1 Kings 15:8, that he was succeeded by his brother Asa, as both are said to have had the same mother, Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom. Josephus says the granddaughter of Absalom; see 2 Chronicles 11:20). Except that Asa could not remove the high places he is said to have done right during his long reign of forty-one years. Asa deposed Maacah from the position of queen-mother for her idolatry. She had made (1 Kings 15:13) an abominable image (Heb. a horror o

ABIJAM. Abijah....

1 Kings 15:1-8. Abijam, king of Judah (2 Chronicles 13:1-2) 1. _reigned Abijam over Judah_ Better, with R.V. BEGAN _Abijam_ TO REIGN. This is the sense of the verb here, though in the next verse it must be simply -reigned." The A.V. renders it -began to reign" in 1 Kings 15:25 of this chapter, and elsewhere. _Abijam_ The LXX. adds -son of Rehoboam." The name is _Abijah_in 2 Chron., and, comparing with other names of like formation, that appears the more correct....