1 Kings 12:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

The cause was from the Lord; who gave up Rehoboam to so foolish and fatal a mistake, and alienated the people's affections from him, and ordered all circumstances by his wise providence to that end.

1 Kings 12:15

15 Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.