John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 15:34
And he did evil in the sight of the Lord ,.... As Nadab did, whom he slew: and walked in the way of Jeroboam ; whose family he destroyed: and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin ; in worshipping the golden calves; so that it was not out of dislike to idolatry, but out of malice and ambition, that he slew the family of Jeroboam. read more
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