John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 7. Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah ? etc.] Which seem to be written by Iddo the prophet, (see 2 Chronicles 13:22), and there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam ; and a famous pitched battle between them we read of in ( 2 Chronicles 13:3,17).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-8 - Abijam's heart was not perfect with the Lord his God; he wante sincerity; he began well, but he fell off, and walked in all the sin of his father, following his bad example, though he had seen the ba consequences of it. David's family was continued as a lamp in Jerusalem, to maintain the true worship of God there, when the light of Divine truth was extinguished in all other places. The Lord has stil taken care of his cause, while those who ought to have been serviceabl thereto have lived and perished in their sins. The Son of David wil still continue a light to his church, to establish it in truth an righteousness to the end of time. There are two kinds of fulfilling the law, one legal, the other by the gospel. Legal is, when men do all things required in the law, and that by themselves. None ever thu fulfilled the law but Christ, and Adam before his fall. The gospe manner of fulfilling the law is, to believe in Christ who fulfilled the law for us, and to endeavour in the whole man to obey God in all his precepts. And this is accepted of God, as to all those that are in Christ. Thus David and others are said to fulfil the law.
Original Hebrew ויתר3499 דברי1697 אבים38 וכל3605 אשׁר834 עשׂה6213 הלוא3808 הם1992 כתובים3789 על5921 ספר5612 דברי1697 הימים3117 למלכי4428 יהודה3063 ומלחמה4421 היתה1961 בין996 אבים38 ובין996 ירבעם׃3379
