John Gill's Exposition on 2 Chronicles 13:20

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah, etc.] So as to bring an army into the field against him, and fight him: and the Lord struck him; by some Jewish writers f51, this is interpreted of Abijah; and the reason of his being stricken, they say, was because he did not destroy the calf when he took Bethel; but it is best to understand it of Jeroboam, since Abijah is afterwards said to wax mighty: and he died; not immediately, for he lived two years after Abijah, (<111420>1 Kings 14:20 15:9), but continued under a lingering disease he was smitten with, and which issued in his death.

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