1 Kings 14:21

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 14:21-31

Judah's story and Israel's are intermixed in this book. Jeroboam out-lived Rehoboam, four or five years, yet his history is despatched first, that the account of Rehoboam's reign may be laid together; and a sad account it is. I. Here is no good said of the king. All the account we have of him here is, 1. That he was forty-one years old when he began to reign, by which reckoning he was born in the last year of David, and had his education, and the forming of his mind, in the best days of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:21

And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah ,.... Over the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, when Jeroboam reigned over the other ten: Rehoboam was forty one years old when he began to reign ; being born one year before his father Solomon began to reign, and so it might have been expected he would have begun his reign more wisely than he did: and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem ; not half so long as his father and grandfather, being neither so wise nor so good a prince... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 14:21

EXPOSITION THE REIGN OF REHOBOAM .— And Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty [or twenty. See on 1 Kings 12:1 ] and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned [this reign is related at greater length in 2 Chronicles 11:1-23 ; 2 Chronicles 12:1-16 .] seventeen years [cf. 1 Kings 15:1 ] in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord did choose [cf. 1 Kings 11:36 ; Psalms 78:68 ; Nehemiah 1:9 ] out of all the tribes of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 14:21-24

The Sin of Judah. Having discoursed of Jeroboam and the kingdom of Israel, the sacred historian now returns to Rehoboam and the sister kingdom of Judah. To have found a better state of things here would have been refreshing, but in this we are disappointed. How fearful was the moral state of the whole world in those days! I. JUDAH HAD FALLEN INTO THE GROSSEST IDOLATRY . 1 . He had multiplied high places . 2 . He had built many temples . 3 . He had... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 14:21-31

Unfaithfulness and its rebuke. I. JUDAH 'S SIN . 1 . The nature of the transgression . The grossest idolatry was set side by side with the pure worship of God. The temple and its services were still HIS ( 1 Kings 14:28 ), but on every high hill and under every green tree were the images and altars of the false gods. The preservation of the pure worship of God is no proof that all is yielded which God demands. The heart may be full of the world's idolatries, of its... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 14:21

On the age of Rehoboam at his accession, see 1 Kings 12:8 note. The 17 years of his reign must have been complete, or a little more than complete, if Abijam ascended the throne in the “eighteenth” year of Jeroboam 1 Kings 15:1. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 14:21

1 Kings 14:21. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign Although many learned men are of opinion that there is an error in the text here in regard to the age of Rehoboam when he began to reign, and some think the reading should be twenty-one, while Houbigant, following the Seventy, reads sixteen years; yet as they do not seem to give sufficient reasons for the alteration, it is certainly safest to abide by the Hebrew text. According to this, he was born in the last... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:21-31

Rehoboam’s reign in the south (14:21-31)The story returns to the kingdom of Judah. After the division of the kingdom, Rehoboam quickly strengthened the defences on his southern border, for he knew that Egypt was likely to support Jeroboam (cf. 11:40; see 2 Chronicles 11:5-12). For three years Rehoboam carried on the true worship of Yahweh. This was mainly because of the help he received from a large number of priests and Levites from the north who fled to Judah rather than participate in the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Kings 14:21

mother's name. Mentioned here and in the case of each successive king (Compare 1 Kings 15:10 ; 1 Kings 22:42 . 2 Kings 8:26 , &c.); because the king's character stands connected with the mother ; and because of the position which the queen dowager occupied (Compare 1 Kings 2:19 , 1 Kings 15:13 .Jeremiah 13:18; Jeremiah 13:18 ). Ammonitess. Twice mentioned, and in connection with Jerusalem. See 1 Kings 14:31 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Kings 14:21

THE ACCOUNT OF REHOBOAM'S EVIL REIGN IN JUDAH"And Rehoboam, son of Solomon, reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Jehovah had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. And Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers... read more

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