Brought under: “Humbled” or “defeated,” not reduced to subjection.

Were brought under. — Were humbled, bowed down (the same word as in 2 Chronicles 12:6). ([Reference Judges 3:…

Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time ,
&c.] Humbled and weakened, but not reduced to the gove…

Jeroboam and his people, through apostasy and idolatry, deserved the severe punishment Abijah was permitted to inflict upon them. It appears from A…