_AND WHEN REHOBOAM WAS COME TO JERUSALEM, HE GATHERED OF THE HOUSE OF JUDAH AND BENJAMIN AN HUNDRED AND FOURSCORE THOUSAND CHOSEN MEN, WHICH WERE WARRIORS, TO FIGHT AGAINST ISRAEL, THAT HE MIGHT BRING THE KINGDOM AGAIN TO REHOBOAM._ Rehoboam ... gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin ... to fi... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO SHEMAIAH THE MAN OF GOD, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND REHOBOAM DWELT IN JERUSALEM, AND BUILT CITIES FOR DEFENCE IN JUDAH._ Built cities for defense in Judah, х_ WAYIBEN_ (H1129) _ `AARIYM_ (H5892) _ LªMAATSOWR_ (H4692)] - and fortified cities (see 2 Chronicles 11:6, where _ BAANAAH_ (H1129) is used alone in this sense). This verb is frequently us... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE BUILT EVEN BETHLEHEM, AND ETAM, AND TEKOA,_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE FORTIFIED THE STRONG HOLDS, AND PUT CAPTAINS IN THEM, AND STORE OF VICTUAL, AND OF OIL AND WINE._ Store of victual, and of oil and wine. Odoriferous oil and sweet wine were used by the ancient Jews as much as by the modern Arabs and Orientals generally (cf. Psalms 104:15; Odyssey, 2:, 339).... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IN EVERY SEVERAL CITY HE PUT SHIELDS AND SPEARS, AND MADE THEM EXCEEDING STRONG, HAVING JUDAH AND BENJAMIN ON HIS SIDE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES THAT WERE IN ALL ISRAEL RESORTED TO HIM OUT OF ALL THEIR COASTS._ The priests and the Levites ... resorted to him out of all their coasts. This was an accession of moral power, for the maintenance of the true religion is the best support and safeguard of any nation;... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THE LEVITES LEFT THEIR SUBURBS AND THEIR POSSESSION, AND CAME TO JUDAH AND JERUSALEM: FOR JEROBOAM AND HIS SONS HAD CAST THEM OFF FROM EXECUTING THE PRIEST'S OFFICE UNTO THE LORD:_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE ORDAINED HIM PRIESTS FOR THE HIGH PLACES, AND FOR THE DEVILS, AND FOR THE CALVES WHICH HE HAD MADE._ He ordained him priests. The persons he appointed to the priesthood were low and worthless creatures (see the notes at 1 Kings 12:31; 1 Kings 13:33); any were consecrated who brought a bullo... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AFTER THEM OUT OF ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL SUCH AS SET THEIR HEARTS TO SEEK THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL CAME TO JERUSALEM, TO SACRIFICE UNTO THE LORD GOD OF THEIR FATHERS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THEY STRENGTHENED THE KINGDOM OF JUDAH, AND MADE REHOBOAM THE SON OF SOLOMON STRONG, THREE YEARS: FOR THREE YEARS THEY WALKED IN THE WAY OF DAVID AND SOLOMON._ They strengthened the kingdom of Judah. The innovating measures of Jeroboam were not introduced all at once. But as the were developed,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND REHOBOAM TOOK HIM MAHALATH THE DAUGHTER OF JERIMOTH THE SON OF DAVID TO WIFE, AND ABIHAIL THE DAUGHTER OF ELIAB THE SON OF JESSE;_ Rehoboam took him Mahalath. The names of her father and mother are given. Jerimoth, the father, must have been the son of one of David's concubines (1 Chronicles 3... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHICH BARE HIM CHILDREN; JEUSH, AND SHAMARIAH, AND ZAHAM._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AFTER HER HE TOOK MAACHAH THE DAUGHTER OF ABSALOM; WHICH BARE HIM ABIJAH, AND ATTAI, AND ZIZA, AND SHELOMITH._ After her he took Maachah the daughter - i:e., grand-daughter (2 Samuel 14:27) of Absalom, Tamar being, according to Josephus, her mother (cf. 2 Samuel 18:18).... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND REHOBOAM LOVED MAACHAH THE DAUGHTER OF ABSALOM ABOVE ALL HIS WIVES AND HIS CONCUBINES: (FOR HE TOOK EIGHTEEN WIVES, AND THREESCORE CONCUBINES; AND BEGAT TWENTY AND EIGHT SONS, AND THREESCORE DAUGHTERS.)_ He took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines. This royal harem, though far inferior t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND REHOBOAM MADE ABIJAH THE SON OF MAACHAH THE CHIEF, TO BE RULER AMONG HIS BRETHREN: FOR HE THOUGHT TO MAKE HIM KING._ Made Abijah ... chief ... ruler among his brethren. This preference seems to have been given to Abijah solely from the king's doting fondness for his mother, and through her inf... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE DEALT WISELY, AND DISPERSED OF ALL HIS CHILDREN THROUGHOUT ALL THE COUNTRIES OF JUDAH AND BENJAMIN, UNTO EVERY FENCED CITY: AND HE GAVE THEM VICTUAL IN ABUNDANCE. AND HE DESIRED MANY WIVES._ He dealt wisely - i:e., with deep and calculating policy (Exodus 1:10). AND DISPERSED OF ALL HIS CH... [ Continue Reading ]