“nec valuit ultra resistere Jeroboam in diebus Abia : quem percussit Dominus, et mortuus est.”
“Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.”
“Jeroboam did not again recover his power during the days of Abijah, and the LORD struck him down and he died.”
“Jeroboam didn’t recover strength again in the days of Abijah. Yahweh struck him, and he died.”
“Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and Jehovah smote him, and he died.”
Him. Some think Abia, as Jeroboam survived him two years: but others, (Calmet) with greater probability, (Du Hamel) suppose that the latter is here specified, and that he fell a victim to the divine wrath, as the prophet Ahias had foretold. (Calmet) — (Salien, the year of the world 3081.)
Lastly, The death of both of the conquered and of the conqueror, not long after. 1. Jeroboam never looked up after this defeat, though he survived it two or three years. He could not recover strength again, v. 20. The Lord struck him either with some bodily disease, of which he languished, or with melancholy and trouble of mind; his heart was broken, and vexation at his loss brought his head, probably by this time a hoary head, with sorrow to the grave. He escaped the sword of Abijah, but God struck him: and there is no escaping his sword. 2. Abijah waxed mighty upon it. What number of wives and children he had before does not appear; but now he multiplied his wives to fourteen in all, by whom he had thirty-eight children, v. 21. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of those arrows. It seems, he had ways peculiar to himself, and sayings of his own, which were recorded with his acts in the history of those times, v. 22. But the number of his months was cut off in the midst, and, soon after his triumphs, death conquered the conqueror. Perhaps he was too much lifted up with his victories, and therefore God would not let him live long to enjoy the honour of them.