1 Kings 15

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 15

In this chapter we have an abstract of the history, I. Of two of the kings of Judah, Abijam, the days of whose reign were few and evil (1 Kgs. 15:1-8), and Asa, who reigned well and long, 1 Kgs. 15:9-24. II. Of two of the kings of Israel, Nadab the son of Jeroboam, and Baasha the destroyer of Jeroboam's house, 1 Kgs. 15:25-34. read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 15:1-8

We have here a short account of the short reign of Abijam the son of Rehoboam king of Judah. He makes a better figure, 2 Chron. 13:1-22, where we have an account of his war with Jeroboam, the speech which he made before the armies engaged, and the wonderful victory he obtained by the help of God. There he is called Abijah?My father is the Lord, because no wickedness is there laid to his charge. But here, where we are told of his faults, Jah, the name of God, is, in disgrace to him, taken away... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 15:9-24

We have here a short account of the reign of Asa; we shall find a more copious history of it 2 Chron. 14:1-16:14 Here is, I. The length of it: He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem, 1 Kgs. 15:10. In the account we have of the kings of Judah we find the number of the good kings and the bad ones nearly equal; but then we may observe, to our comfort, that the reign of the good kings was generally long, but that of the bad kings short, the consideration of which will make the state of God's... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 15:25-34

We are now to take a view of the miserable state of Israel, while the kingdom of Judah was happy under Asa's good government. It was threatened that they should be as a reed shaken in the water (1 Kgs. 14:15), and so they were, when, during the single reign of Asa, the government of their kingdom was in six or seven different hands, as we find in this and the following chapter. Jeroboam was upon the throne in the beginning of his reign and Ahab at the end of it, and between them were Nadab,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 15

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 15 In this chapter we have a short history of the reign of Abijam, 1 Kings 15:1 and of Asa, 1 Kings 14:9 , both kings of Judah; and of the reigns of Nadab the son of Jeroboam, and of Baasha, who destroyed his family, both kings of Israel, 1 Kings 15:25 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 15:1

Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah. That is, began to reign; and by this it appears that Rehoboam was in the eighteenth year of his reign when he died, for he and Jeroboam began their reign at the same time. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 15:2

Three years reigned he in Jerusalem ,.... And three only; his reign was short, and indeed not three full years, only one whole year and part of two others; for Asa his son began to reign in the twentieth of Jeroboam, 1 Kings 15:9 so that he reigned part of his eighteenth, this whole nineteenth, and part of his twentieth: and his mother's name was Maachah the daughter of Abishalom ; called Absalom, 2 Chronicles 11:20 , generally supposed by the Jews to be Absalom the son of David, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 15:3

And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him ,.... Having such bad examples as both parents to copy after; it chiefly respects idolatrous practices, see 1 Kings 14:23 , and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God ; he did profess the true God, and worshipped him, but not wholly, and only, and sincerely; he worshipped other gods besides him: and so his heart was not as the heart of David his father ; who was a sole and sincere worshipper of God,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 15:4

Nevertheless, for David's sake did the Lord his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem ,.... A kingdom there, as the Targum, splendid and glorious, to be continued in his posterity: to set up his son after him; in it: and to establish Jerusalem : to continue that in which the temple was, for the sake of which, and the worship of God in it, there was a succession of David's posterity on the throne of Judah. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 15:5

Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord ,.... With respect to worship: and turned not aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life; especially in matters of religion, nor even in his moral walk and conversation, deliberately, studiously, and with design: save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite ; the killing of him, and other sins which led on to it, and were in connection with it; Abarbinel thinks, because the affair of Bathsheba is not... read more

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