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1 Kings 14:21

1 Kings 14:21
And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord,.... At the end of three years, from the beginning of the reign of Rehoboam:

and they provoked him to jealousy, with their sins which they had committed,…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

On the age of Rehoboam at his accession, see 1Ki 12:8 note. The 17 years of his reign must have been complete, or a little more than complete, if Abijam ascended the throne in the “eighteenth” year of…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

1 Kings 14:21-31

Judah's story and Israel's are intermixed in this book. Jeroboam out-lived Rehoboam, four or five years, yet his history is despatched first, that the account of Rehoboam's reign may be laid together;…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

The sinful reign of Rehoboam in Judah (2Ch 12:13)

21. Rehoboamwas forty and one years old As Solomon's reign lasted forty years (1Ki 11:42), this son must have been born a year or more before his…