1 Kings 14:1
-20 + 14:1-20 Verses. 1 to 20. The substance of these verses is found in the Vatican copy after v. 24 chap. 12.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 4:19And his daughter-in-law the wife of Phinees was with child, about to bring forth; and she heard the tidings, that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead; and she wept and was delivered, for her pains came upon her.
2 Samuel 12:15And Nathan departed to his house. And the Lord struck the child, which the wife of Urias the Chettite bore to David, and it was ill.
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 →