1 Kings 14:30

30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

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 And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.

29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

31 And Rehoboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman. And Abijam his son became king in his place.