1 Kings 15:6

And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. [Practically identical with 1 Kings 14:30 , where see note. Thenius thinks the insertion of the words were due to the carelessness of some copyist, and Bähr admits that our present text is possibly not the original one. For Rehoboam, some MSS ; with the Syriac and Arabic, read Abijah, but this is clearly an emendation, which in turn begets another repetition ( 1 Kings 14:7 ), and there is really no need either to alter or suspect the text. Such repetitions are quite in accordance with Eastern usage, and Rehoboam here stands for the house of Rehoboam, or the cause and kingdom which Rehoboam represented. The object of mentioning his name can hardly be "to remind the reader that Abijam inherited this war from his father" (Rawlinson), for it was only on Rehoboam's death that the slumbering hostility blazed out into actual war. That there was warfare between Abi-jam and Jeroboam we know not only from 1 Kings 14:7 , but from 2 Chronicles 13:3-20 also.