PARTICULAES CONCERNING REHOBOAM’S FAMILY
(2 Chronicles 11:18-23).
This record also is wanting in the Book of Kings. It appears to have been derived from the sources designated in 2 Chronicles 12:15.
(18) The daughter. — So rightly, LXX., Vulg., and many Hebrew MSS. for the ordinary reading son.
Of Jerimoth the son of David — Jerimoth does not occur in the list of David’s sons (1 Chronicles 3:1-8), unless we suppose the name to be a corruption of “Ithream.” Probably he was one of “the sons of the concubines” (1 Chronicles 3:9).
And Abihail. — The and is not in the present Hebrew text, but is supplied by the LXX. “And of Abihail” is probably the meaning, so that both of Mahalath’s parents are named. The LXX. and Vulg. make Abihail a second wife of Rehoboam; but 2 Chronicles 11:19-20, as well as the construction of the sentence, make it evident that only one wife is mentioned here. A daughter of David’s eldest brother could hardly become the wife of David’s grandson.
Eliab the son of Jesse. — 1 Samuel 17:13; 1 Chronicles 2:13.