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:

and he died ; not immediately, for he lived two years after Abijah, 1 Kings 14:20 , but continued under a lingering disease he was smitten with, and which issued in his death.