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2 Chronicles 13:20 KJV
2 Chronicles · chapter 13 · verse 20
Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.2 Chronicles 13:20 · King James Version
2 Chronicles 13:20 in context
18Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.
19And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof.
20Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.
21But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
22And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- JeroboamYârobʻâmJarobam, the name of two Israelite kingsH3379 →
- strengthkôachvigor, literally or figurativelyH3581 →
- recoverʻâtsârto incloseH6113 →
- AbijahʼĂbîyâhAbijah, the name of several Israelite men and two IsraelitessesH29 →
- strucknâgaphto push, gore, defeat, stub , inflictH5062 →
- daysyôwma day , whether literal , or figurativeH3117 →
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We do not find that Jeroboam offered to make any answer at all to Abijah's speech. Though it was much to the purpose, he resolved not to heed it, and therefore he heard it as though he heard it not. He came to fight, not to dispute. The longest sword, he thought, would determine the matter, not the better cause.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-22