--- title: "Bullinger" description: "Abijam = Abijah. Three years. Not full years, for he died in the twentieth year of Jeroboam (1 Kings 15:9 ). mother" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/1-kings/15" --- **Abijam** = Abijah. **Three years.** Not full years, for he died in the twentieth year of Jeroboam ([1 Kings 15:9](../../../kjv/1-kings/15/9) ). **mother's.** Put by Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Genus) for ancestor. Here = grandmother. Maachah, or Michaiah ([2 Chronicles 13:2](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/13/2) ). Abishalom = Absalom ([2 Chronicles 11:21](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/11/21) ). **father.** Put by Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Genus), App-6 , for ancestor. **lamp.** See note on [1 Kings 11:36](../../../kjv/1-kings/11/36) . Peculiarly used of David. **And, &c.** This is repeated (from [1 Kings 14:30](../../../kjv/1-kings/14/30) ) to complete Structure above. **the rest.** See [2 Chronicles 13:3](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/13/3) , &c. **slept with his fathers.** See note on [1 Kings 14:20](../../../kjv/1-kings/14/20) . **right.** Therefore his days "long in the land" ([1 Kings 15:23](../../../kjv/1-kings/15/23) ). Contemporary with seven Israelite kings. **idols** = filthy idols. **not removed:** not till the reign of Hezekiah ([1 Kings 22:43](../../../kjv/1-kings/22/43) ; [2 Kings 12:3](../../../kjv/2-kings/12/3) ; [2 Kings 18:4](../../../kjv/2-kings/18/4) ). **things. dedicated** = holy things of his father. See note on [Exodus 3:5](../../../kjv/exodus/3/5) . **war.** Only border fighting. No campaign. Compare [1 Kings 15:32](../../../kjv/1-kings/15/32) . **Ramah** = the modern *er Ram,* five miles north of Jerusalem, which it was intended to menace. See [2 Chronicles 16:1](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/16/1) . **go out or come in.** But in vain. See 1Ki 12:27 ; [1 Kings 15:9](../../../kjv/1-kings/15/9) , &c. **the.** Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "among the". **There is.** Supply Figure of speech *Ellipsis* ( App-6 ). [Let there be. ] **league** = covenant. **and.** Supply [as] instead of "and", **behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos* App-6 . **hosts** = forces. **Ijon, &c.** All in the neighbourhood of Gennesaret. **dwelt in.** Septuagint and Vulg, read "returned to". See note on [1 Kings 14:17](../../../kjv/1-kings/14/17) . **The rest.** Compare [2 Chronicles 14:9](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/14/9) , [2 Chronicles 15:10](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/15/10) . **are they not. ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 . **father** = forefather. Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Species). **evil.** Hebrew. *ra'a* . App-44 . **sin.** Same as "evil", above. **made Israel to sin.** See note on [1 Kings 14:16](../../../kjv/1-kings/14/16) . **that breathed.** Hebrew. *neshamah.* App-16 . **the saying.** Compare [1 Kings 14:7-11](../../../kjv/1-kings/14/7-11) . **war.** Only border fighting (compare verses: [1 Kings 15:16](../../../kjv/1-kings/15/16) , 1Ki 15:32 , [2 Chronicles 14:1](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/14/1) ; [2 Chronicles 15:19](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/15/19) ); no actual campaign, as in [2 Chronicles 16:1](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/16/1) . **in Tirzah.** See notes on [1 Kings 14:17](../../../kjv/1-kings/14/17) and [1 Kings 15:21](../../../kjv/1-kings/15/21) . **twenty and four years.** Began in the third year of Asa. Therefore he died in the twenty-sixth year of Asa ([1 Kings 16:8](../../../kjv/1-kings/16/8) ). Yet in the thirty-sixth year Baasha came and made war against Judah ([2 Chronicles 16:1](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/16/1) ). This would be nine or ten years after he was dead. But see note on [2 Chronicles 16:1](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/16/1) , where the word "reign" should be rendered "kingdom": i.e. the thirty-sixth year from the kingdom of Israel. 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