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1 Kings 14:30

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Kings 14:30 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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1 Kings 14:30 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/1-kings/14/30.

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There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And war was between Rehoboam and between Jeroboam all of the days.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam throughout their days.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam throughout their days.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And there was warre betweene Rehoboam and Ieroboam continually.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam always.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And war hath been between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And there has been war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam [for] all the days;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    There was constant warfare between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And war was between Rehoboam and between Jeroboam all of the days.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all [their] days.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Rehoboam and Jeroboam were always at war with each other.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).

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Shared distinctive vocabulary

רְחַבְעָ֛ם Rehoboam H7346 occurs in 41 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 5 nouns
  • 2 prepositions

Verb forms

  • הָיְתָ֧ה Qal · Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • בֵין between H996 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 8 words from the Hebrew and 9 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

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Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

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Topical passages linked to 1 Kings 14:30 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • 1 Kings 12:21 When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
  • 1 Kings 12:24 Thus says Yahweh, You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they listened to the word of Yahweh, and returned and went their way, according to the word of Yahweh.
  • 1 Kings 15:6–7 Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
  • 2 Chronicles 12:15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren't they written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, after the manner of genealogies? There were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Kings 14:30 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּמִלְחָמָ֨ה הָיְתָ֧ה בֵין רְחַבְעָ֛ם וּבֵ֥ין יָרָבְעָ֖ם כָּל הַיָּמִֽים

There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Kings 14:30 Septuagint · lemma form
And there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam continually.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    וּקְרָבָא הֲוַת בֵּין רְחַבְעָם וּבֵין יָרָבְעָם כָּל יוֹמַיָא:

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    Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on 1 Kings 14:30 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

1Ki 14:30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all [their] days.

Ver. 30. All their days.] Skirmishes there were continually about the borders.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

That is, all the days of Rehoboam’s life.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam--The former was prohibited from entering on an aggressive war; but as the two kingdoms kept up a jealous rivalry, he might be forced into vigilant measures of defense, and frequent skirmishes would take place on the borders.

Next: 1 Kings Chapter 15

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(30) There was war . . .—Of such war we have no record, since the day when Shemaiah forbade Rehoboam’s invasion of the new kingdom; nor is there even mention of any action of Israel in aid of the Egyptian attack, although it is likely enough that such action was taken. The meaning may simply be that there was continued enmity, breaking off all peaceful relations; but in the scantiness of the record we can have no certainty that actual war did not take place, though it has found no place in the history.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

30. all their days] R.V. continually: as the same words are rendered in a very similar passage about Saul and David in A.V. 1Sa_18:29.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Always. The two kingdoms were constantly divided, and did each other all the harm they could; though we know not that they ever came to a pitched battle. Roboam was too great a coward, 2 Paralipomenon xiii. 7.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Not an invasive war with potent armies, which was forbidden, 1Ki 12:24, and not revived until Abijam’s reign, 2Ch 13; but a defensive war from those hostilities which by small parties and skirmishes they did to one another.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

30. War between Rehoboam and Jeroboam — Not merely a feeling of hostility, but frequent wars. We are not to suppose that the word of the Lord by Shemaiah, forbidding Judah to war with Israel, (1Ki_12:24,) was any more observed in the later history of Rehoboam than it was by his sons.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

And there was war cf. 2Ch_12:15, "wars." Keil argues from the prohibition of war by Shemaiah (1Ki_12:23) that this must mean "hostility, enmity." But hm; j; lmi surely implies more than angry feelings or a hostile attitude; and it is highly probable that, even if there were no organized campaigns, a desultory warfare was constantly carried on on the borders of the two kingdoms. It is also possible that Jeroboam took a part in the war of Shishak between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Was war - Not an invasive war with potent armies, which was forbidden, chap. xii, 24, and not revived 'till Abijam's reign, 2 Chron. xiii, 1-3, but a defensive war from those hostilities which by small parties and skirmishes they did to one another.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Lesson kit

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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Rᵉchabʻâm (“Rehoboam”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word Rᵉchabʻâm carries the sense “Rehoboam.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does 1 Kings 11:43, which shares the word «Rehoboam», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “between” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
  5. «הָיְתָ֧ה» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

  • These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
  • “between” occurs 2× in this single verse.
  • 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.

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