Comp. Deut. xxviii. 26; 1 Sam. xvii. 44, 45. And after in Jeremiah (vii. 33, viii. 2, ix. 22, etc.) and Ezekiel (xxix. 5, xxxix. 17, etc.).
[500] 1 Kings xiv. 14: "That day: but what? even now."
[501] It is almost identical with the message of doom pronounced on other kings, like Baasha (1 Kings xvi. 3-5) and Ahab (1 Kings xxi. 19-23).
[502] Ewald pronounces them to be clearly an addition of the Deuteronomist.
[503] LXX., εἰς γῆν Σαριρά. The additions to the LXX. have the touching incident, "Καὶ ἐγένετο ὡς εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὴν Σαριρὰ καὶ τὸ παιδάειον ἀπέθανεν, καὶ ἐξῆλθεν ἡ κραυγὴ εἰς ἀπαντήν."
[504] Verg., Æn., vi. 870.
[505] See Job xii. 12; Psalm xxi. 4; Prov. iii. 2-16.
[506] Wisdom iv. 8-14.
[507] Josh. xix. 44, xxi. 23; 1 Kings xv. 27, xvi. 15.
[508] His father therefore could not have been Ahijah the prophet, who was an Ephraimite. He was the only ruler who came from slothful Issachar (Gen. xlix. 14, 15) except the unknown Tola (Judg. x. 1).