At that time - This phrase connects the following narrative with Jeroboam’s persistence in his evil ways. The event described is the first j…

Abijah (“whose father is Jehovah”): The coincidence of names in the sons of Jeroboam and Rehoboam is curious. Possibly it may be m…

At that time Abijah, the son of Jeroboam, fell sick .
] Being smitten of God with some disease, as a punishment of J…

“At that time,” when Jeroboam did evil, his child sickened. When sickne comes into our families, we should inquire whether there may not b…