2 Chronicles 13:1
_NOW IN THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF KING JEROBOAM BEGAN ABIJAH TO REIGN OVER JUDAH._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW IN THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF KING JEROBOAM BEGAN ABIJAH TO REIGN OVER JUDAH._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE REIGNED THREE YEARS IN JERUSALEM. HIS MOTHER'S NAME ALSO WAS MICHAIAH THE DAUGHTER OF URIEL OF GIBEAH. AND THERE WAS WAR BETWEEN ABIJAH AND JEROBOAM._ His mother's name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. The same as Maachah (see the note at 1 Kings 15:2). She was "the daughter... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABIJAH SET THE BATTLE IN ARRAY WITH AN ARMY OF VALIANT MEN OF WAR, EVEN FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND CHOSEN MEN: JEROBOAM ALSO SET THE BATTLE IN ARRAY AGAINST HIM WITH EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND CHOSEN MEN, BEING MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR._ Abijah set the battle in array - i:e., took the field and opened the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABIJAH STOOD UP UPON MOUNT ZEMARAIM, WHICH IS IN MOUNT EPHRAIM, AND SAID, HEAR ME, THOU JEROBOAM, AND ALL ISRAEL;_ Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim. He had entered the enemy's territory and was encamped on an eminence near Beth-el (Joshua 18:22). Jeroboam's army lay at the foot of the hill,... [ Continue Reading ]
_OUGHT YE NOT TO KNOW THAT THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL GAVE THE KINGDOM OVER ISRAEL TO DAVID FOR EVER, EVEN TO_ _ HIM AND TO HIS SONS BY A COVENANT OF SALT?_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT JEROBOAM CAUSED AN AMBUSHMENT TO COME ABOUT BEHIND THEM: SO THEY WERE BEFORE JUDAH, AND THE AMBUSHMENT WAS BEHIND THEM._ But Jeroboam caused an ambushment. The oration of Abijah, however animating an effect it might have produced on his own troops, was unheeded by the party to whom it was addr... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN JUDAH LOOKED BACK, BEHOLD, THE BATTLE WAS BEFORE AND BEHIND: AND THEY CRIED UNTO THE LORD, AND THE PRIESTS SOUNDED WITH THE TRUMPETS._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABIJAH PURSUED AFTER JEROBOAM, AND TOOK CITIES FROM HIM, BETHEL WITH THE TOWNS THEREOF, AND JESHANAH WITH THE TOWNS THEREOF, AND EPHRAIN WITH THE TOWNS THEREOF._ ABIJAH PURSUED AFTER JEROBOAM. This sanguinary action widened the breach between the people of the two kingdoms. Abijah abandoned his... [ Continue Reading ]
_NEITHER DID JEROBOAM RECOVER STRENGTH AGAIN IN THE DAYS OF ABIJAH: AND THE LORD STRUCK HIM, AND HE DIED._ Neither did Jeroboam recover strength. The disastrous action at Zemaraim, which caused the loss of the entire flower and chivalry of his army, broke his spirits and crippled his power. THE L... [ Continue Reading ]