1 Kings 11:43--12:1
passed away <07901> [A.M. 3029. B.C. 975. slept.]
buried <06912> [buried.]
Rehoboam <07346> [Rehoboam.]
[Roboam.]
Rehoboam <07346> [Rehoboam.]
Shechem ........ Shechem <07927> [Shechem.]
[Sichem.]
[Sychem.]
1 Kings 12:3
1 Kings 14:25
Shishak <07895> [A.M. 3034. B.C. 970. Shishak.]
1 Kings 15:6
war <04421> [there was war.]
Instead of Rehoboam fourteen MSS., the Arabic, and some copies of the Targum, read Abijam. The Syriac has "Abia, the son of Rehoboam;" and the Editio Princeps of the Vulgate has Abia. This is doubtless the true reading, as otherwise it would be an unnecessary repetition of ch. 14:30, and a repetition which interrupts the history of Abijah: (see 2 Ch 13:3, etc.)
