Saturday, March 15, 2025

Notes on the Text of 1 Kings 15:6-7 and the Abijam vs. Rehoboam Readings

  

1 Kings 15:6

 

בֵין־רְחַבְעָ֛ם

 

The war begun between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continued all the days of his life.

The Syr. and some Hebrew manuscripts have “Abijam” in place of “Rehoboam” to correspond to the following verse.

 

1 Kings 15:7

 

אֲבִיָּם֙

 

The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

The LXX and some Hebrew manuscripts replace “Abijam” with “Abijah” (also in 14:31; 15:1, 8; cf. 2 Chr 12:16). (Rich Brannan and Israel Loken, The Lexham Textual Notes on the Bible [Lexham Bible Reference Series; Bellingham, Wash.: Lexham Press, 2014], Logos ed.)

 

 

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