At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 1. At. The Septuagint omit the 20 verses following. But Grabe’s edition has them marked with asterisks, ( Bible.) as being supplied from Theodotion, and so forth The Vat. copy gives a great part, with some circumstances which occur no where else. Calmet. 12:24. Calmet.—The wife of Jeroboam is there called Ano, ( Menochius.) the elder sister of the queen of Egypt, Thekemina. See Calmet. 11:19; where Adad marries another sister. Bible.—Time. This expression does not determine the year. Saint John Chrysostom and so forth—The passage in the Vat. Septuagint seems to place this death before Jeroboam ascended the throne: but it took place rather at the end of his reign, verse 14. Abia seems to have been his eldest son, and fit for command; so that the people mourn for him, which they would hardly have done for an infant. Calmet.