Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.
Ver. 20. And the Lord struck him.] That is, Jeroboam (see on 2Ch 13:15); not Abijah, as the Hebrews sense the text, saying that God therefore struck him, because, when he took Bethel, he destroyed not the idol there, but kept it and worshipped it. A fable.