2 Chronicles 13:20 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 13:13-22

We do not find that Jeroboam offered to make any answer at all to Abijah's speech. Though it was much to the purpose, he resolved not to heed it, and therefore he heard it as though he heard it not. He came to fight, not to dispute. The longest sword, he thought, would determine the matter, not the better cause. Let us therefore see the issue, whether right and religion carried the day or no. I. Jeroboam, who trusted to his politics, was beaten. He was so far from fair reasoning that he was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 13:20

Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah ,.... So as to bring an army into the field against him, and fight him: and the Lord struck him ; by some Jewish writers F1 Bereshit Rabba, sect. 65. fol. 58. 8. Seder Olam Rabba, c. 16. , this is interpreted of Abijah; and the reason of his being stricken, they say, was because he did not destroy the calf when he took Bethel; but it is best to understand it of Jeroboam, since Abijah is afterwards said to wax mighty:... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 13:20

The Lord struck him , and he died - Who died? Abijah or Jeroboam? Some think it was Jeroboam; some, that it was Abijah. Both rabbins and Christians are divided on this point; nor is it yet settled. The prevailing opinion is that Jeroboam is meant, who was struck then with that disease of which he died about two years after; for he did not die till two years after Abijah: see 1 Kings 14:20 ; 1 Kings 15:9 . It seems as if Jeroboam was meant, not Abijah. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 13:1-20

The folly of unnatural severance, etc. The whole chapter presents to us a number of lessons, not very closely connected with one another. I. THE FOLLY OF AN UNNATURAL SEVERANCE . The first thing we read about the reign of Abijah is that there "was war between him and Jeroboam" ( 2 Chronicles 13:2 ). What else was to be expected? How, in those times, or indeed in any time, could it be otherwise? Tribes descended, as they were, from a common ancestor, speaking the same... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 13:1-22

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 13:1-22

A royal and manly manifesto in the rights of godly truth. The narrative of Abijah's short reign of three years is distinguished by one clear account, at any rate, of the wars that had arisen and were prevailing between the two parts of the recently rended and bleeding kingdom, of which a very brief statement only had been made, at the close of the history of Rehoboam's reign, whether here or in the parallel. It is also, and most chiefly, distinguished by the graphic description of the very... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 13:1-22

The successor of Rehoboam. I. HIS NAME . Abijah, "whose father is Jehovah" ( 1 Kings 14:1 ); Abijam, "father of the sea," i.e. a maritime man ( 1 Kings 14:31 ; 1 Kings 15:1 ); or Abia ( LXX .). If Abijam be not a clerical mistake, then the hypothesis is at least interesting that the Chronicler adopted the form Abijah because he did not intend to describe this king's reign as wicked, while the writer of the Kings, having this intention, frequently selected the form... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 13:19-20

Jeroboam: career, character, reputation. There are three things which belong to every man, with the shaping of which he himself has much, though not everything, to do, and which are of the first importance to him. We look at them in connection with Jeroboam. I. HIS CAREER . At first, and for some time, we find him steadily rising; beginning low, he distinguishes himself by the character of his work, is promoted to a post of some importance ( 1 Kings 11:28 ); he gains the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 13:20

The Lord struck him; and he died . The writer of Chronicles here, for brevity's sake, and not to recur to his name again, records the death of Jeroboam, which, however, did not happen till after Abijah's death, in the second year of Asa's reign ( 1 Kings 14:20 ; 1 Kings 15:25 ). That the Lord struck him, may glance at the fearful announcement conveyed to him through his wife by Ahijah ( 1 Kings 14:6-16 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 13:20

The career of Jeroboam. I. AN EXAMPLE OF DISAPPOINTED AMBITION . A striking illustration of how "vaulting ambition overleaps itself, and falls on the other side." Its stages reveal the insatiable character of that "fire and motion of the soul which will not dwell in its own narrow being, but aspires beyond the fitting medium of desire" (Byron). 1 . Promoted to a position of trust. Originally a servant of Solomon, he was appointed master of works for the house of Judah, 1. ... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 13:13-22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 13:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 13:20

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 13:1-20

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 13:1-22

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 13:1-22

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 13:1-22

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 13:19-20

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 13:20

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 13:20

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