1 Kings 14:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• 1 Kings 14:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And the days which Jeroboam reigned [were] two and twenty years: and he (o) slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead. (o) The Lord smote him and he died, ( 2 Chronicles 13:20 )...

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• 1 Kings 14:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Visit of Jeroboam's Wife to Ahijah. Here we have an ancient story with Deuteronomic additions. According to the LXX ( 1 Kings 12:24 g-m), Jeroboam sent his wife (Ano) to the prophet before he...

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• 1 Kings 14:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  two and twenty years. In 1 Kings 15:25 Nadab reigned two years, and began in the second year of Asa, which was the twenty-first of Jeroboam, so that Nadab's two years fall within the time of his...

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• 1 Kings 14:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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.

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• 1 Kings 14:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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. No JFB commentary on this verse.

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• 1 Kings 14:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Sins of Jeroboam and Rehoboam and their Punishment 2. Shiloh] The modern Seilûn, N. of Bethel and E. of the road leading from Bethel to Shechem ( Judges 21:19 ).

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• 1 Kings 14:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  DOOM OF THE HOUSE OF NEBAT 1 Kings 14:1-20 "Whom the gods love die young." -EPICTET. THE other story about Jeroboam is full of pathos; and though here, too, there are obvious signs that, in i...

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• 1 Kings 14:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  South Rivals Worth in Sinning 1 Kings 14:17-31 Rehoboam's mother's name signifies beauty , and she may have been attractive in her person; but we are twice told that she was an Ammonitess, as...

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• 1 Kings 14:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In the story now recorded God is seen acting in judgment. The sickness of the son of Jeroboam was the first stroke of punishment and in connection therewith the prophet Ahijah uttered the doom of the...

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• 1 Kings 14:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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. (20) And the days which Jeroboam reigned w...

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• 1 Kings 14:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years ,.... So that he outlived Rehoboam five years, and lived to the second year of the reign of his grandson Asa: and he slept with his father...

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• 1 Kings 14:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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. Ver. 20. And he slept with his fathers. ] Heb., He lay down....

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• 1 Kings 14:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Jeroboam reigned two and twenty years So he lived till the second year of Asa, chap. 15. He slept with his fathers He died as his fathers did, or perhaps the expression also implies, that he was...

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• 1 Kings 14:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JEREBOAM WARNED THROUGH HIS SON'S DEATH Though God had sought to reach Jereboam's conscience by the message and actions of the man of God, this produced no effect. So God used another means, by th...

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• 1 Kings 14:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Ruin of Jeroboam's House Foretold; Abijah's Character and Death. B. C. 960.       7 Go,...

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• 1 Kings 14:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  So he lived till Asa's second year, 1 Kings 15:25 . He slept with his fathers; either, first, He was buried with his ancestors. But their sepulchre seems to be too mean and improper for a great...

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• 1 Kings 14:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Summary of The Acts Of Jeroboam, And Of His Reign And Death ( 1 Kings 14:19-20 ). We have here the usual stereotyped summary which, with variations, will sum up of the reign of each king, as it di...

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• 1 Kings 14:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THE REIGNS OF JEROBOAM AND REHOBOAM CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES .— 1 Kings 14:1 . Abijah, the son of Jeroboam —Natural heir to the kingdom. His sickness, therefore, seemed to imperil the cont...

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• 1 Kings 14:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  1 Kings 14:2 . Ahijah the prophet; an illustrious man of God, now full of days, and full of grace. 1 Kings 14:3 . Ten loaves. A rustic present, that it might not excite suspicion of a royal vi...

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• 1 Kings 14:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE DEATH OF JEROBOAM 'S SON .—The protest of the prophet of Judah, the signs which supported it, and above all the solemn visitation, with its strange portents, which straigh...

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• 1 Kings 14:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Ahijah's Prophecy against Jeroboam

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• 1 Kings 14:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 11:43 ; 1 Kings 15:25-31 ; 1 Kings 2:10 ; Job 14:12 ; Psalms 3:5 ; Psalms 4:8

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