1 Kings 14:1
At that time, Jeroboam’s son Abijah became very sick.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 4:19The wife/widow of Eli’s son Phinehas was pregnant, and it was almost time for her to give birth to her baby. When she heard that God’s sacred chest had been captured and that her husband and her father-in-law were dead, her labor pains suddenly began. She quickly gave birth to a boy.
2 Samuel 12:15Then Nathan went home. Then Yahweh caused the baby t o become very sick, the one that Uriah’s wife had given birth to.
1 Kings 14:12So go back home. And as soon as you enter the city, your son will die.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 14:1
The kingdom being divided into that of Judah and that of Israel, we must henceforward, in these books of Kings, expect and attend their separate history, the succession of their kings, and the affairs of their kingdoms, accounted for distinctly. In this chapter we have, I. The prophecy of the destruction of Jeroboam's house, ver. 7-16 . The sickness of his child was the occasion of it ( ver. 1-6 ), and the death of his child the earnest of it ( ver. 17, 18 ), together with the conclusion of his reign, ver. 19, 20… Read the whole commentary →