Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.
In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.
In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam--Abijah reigneth over Judah;
In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.
2 Chronicles — Solomon to the exile — retold through the southern kings only. A priestly history that keeps its lens on the temple, on reform kings, and on the repentance formula (7:14) that will be quoted in a thousand sermons.
Voices1
The history of Abijahs reign is here related far more fully than in Kings (marginal reference), especially as regards his war with Jeroboam.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical
The verses this one reaches3
And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Abijah reigned in his place.
In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam became king of Judah,
Solomon’s son was Rehoboam:
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk4
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
2 Chronicles 12:16And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Abijah reigned in his place.
leads to
Solomon the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asa.
Solomon’s son was Rehoboam:
As for the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, along with all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
After her, he married Maacah daughter of Absalom, and she bore to him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
