1 Kings 14:30

30 There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam the whole time.

1 Kings 14:30 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 14:30

And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their
days.
] For though Rehoboam did not enter into an offensive war, and attack the children of Israel, being dissuaded from it by Shemaiah the prophet in the name of the Lord, yet he might maintain a defensive war; and though there were no pitched battles between them as afterwards, in his son's time, yet there might be skirmishes and bickerings on the borders of their countries.

1 Kings 14:30 In-Context

28 Whenever the king went to God's Temple, the guards carried the shields but always returned them to the guardroom.
29 The rest of Rehoboam's life, what he said and did, is all written in The Chronicles of the Kings of Judah.
30 There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam the whole time.
31 Rehoboam died and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. His mother was Naamah, an Ammonite. His son Abijah ruled after him.
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