And the man Jeroboam [was] a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.
Ver. 28. A mighty man of valour.] Able and also active, and so the fitter to be the head of a faction.
And Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious.] This is all that most masters look at in the choice of their servants, that they be meet for their work; though otherwise their religion be either a Popish puppet and calf worship, as one tightly complaineth, or a flat irreligion. But it had been happy for Solomon's house that a man of more conscience, though of less skill, had been retained.