This defection of Judah did not take place until Rehoboam’s fourth year.

They provoked him to jealousy - Compare Exodus 20:5. For the…

Judah did evil. —From the Chronicles (2 Chronicles 11:17) we gather that, as might have been expected, the judgment wh…

Their fathers had been great sinners; but, in the days of David, they had not set up false gods. In the days of Solomon, after the temple had been …

And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord At the end of three years, from the beginning of the reign of Rehoboam:

Nothing good is said here of Rehoboam, and much is said to the disadvantage of his subjects. The prevalence of the worst crimes, those of the worst…