1 Kings 15:2

And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him,.... Having such bad examples as both parents to copy after; it chiefly respects idolatrous practices, see Kg1 14:23,

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Three years - More strictly, not much more than two years (compare 1Ki 15:1, 1Ki 15:9). Any part of a year may, however, in Jewish reckoning, be taken as a year. His mother’s name was Maachah - Or…

We have here a short account of the short reign of Abijam the son of Rehoboam king of Judah. He makes a better figure, 2 Chr. 13, where we have an account of his war with Jeroboam, the speech which he…

Three years reigned he If he began his reign in the eighteenth year of Jeroboam, and was succeeded by Asa (1Ki 15:9) in the twentieth year of the same king, the three years cannot have been complete.…