John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:25
And it came to pass in the fifth year of King Rehoboam ,.... Two years after he and his people fell into the above wicked practices: that Shishak, king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem ; of whom see 1 Kings 11:40 , this was suffered as a chastisement from the Lord for their abominations. read more
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