20And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
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He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;
And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.
And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines:(for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)
Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-23)See here, I. How Rehoboam was strengthened by the accession of the priests and Levites, and all the devout and pious Israelites, to him, even all that were true to their God and their religion. 1. Jeroboam cast them off, that is, he set up such a way of worship as he knew they could not in conscience comply with, which obliged them to withdraw from his altar, and at the same time he would not allo…
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