1 Kgs 15:6

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there was war.

Instead of Rehoboam fourteen MSS., the Arabic, and some copies of the Targum, read Abijam.

The Syriac has "Abia, the son of Rehoboam;" and the Editio Princeps of the Vulgate has Abia. This is doubtless the true reading, as otherwise it would be an unnecessary repetition of 1Kgs 14:30, and a repetition which interrupts the history of Abijah: (see 2 Ch 13:3, etc.)

1Kgs 14:30