16And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;
And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? …
And Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abia his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,
Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-16)The story of Rehoboam’s reign is here concluded, much as the story of the other reigns concludes. Two things especially are observable here:—1. That he was at length pretty well fixed in his kingdom , 2 Chron. 12:13. His fenced cities in Judah did not answer his expectation, so he now strengthened himself in Jerusalem , which he made it his business to fortify, and there he reigned seventeen years…
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