And he brought into the house of God. — The verse is identical with 1 Kings 15:15, substituting God for Jehovah. “The things that his father had dedicated” were, doubtless, taken from the spoils after Abijah’s great victory over Jeroboam (2 Chronicles 13:16-19); and” the things that he himself had dedicated “were a portion of the Cushite booty (2 Chronicles 14:13-15).
The brief reference contained in that single verse of Kings is thus an evident confirmation of the chronicler’s narrative concerning the victories of Abijah and Asa, which he alone records.