And the days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years,
 &c.] So that he outlived Rehoboam five years, and lived to the second year of the reign of his grandson Asa: 
 and he slept with his fathers;
 or died as they did: 
 and Nadab his son reigned in his stead;
 who perhaps was younger than Abijah, whose sickness and death are before related.