Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Chronicles 5:17

17 All these were reckoned by Genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah , and in the days of Jeroboam King of Israel.

Who reigning long, partly in his Fathers days, and partly by himself, 2 Kings 15. And being at leasure as to Wars or Troubles, thought this a fit Season to examine the state of his People.

Either the second of that Name, of whom see 2 Kings 13. 13, 14. O[illegible: 1+ letters] rather the first Ieroboam; partly because he is called simply Ieroboam, without any Addition; which shews that he speaks of the most Famous of the two: and partly because this Work of taking an Account of the People doth far better agree to the Times of Ieroboam the First, when the Kingdom of [illegible: 1+ letters]srael was first erected and established, and broken off from that of Iudah, when it was necessary for Ieroboam to know his own Strength and the Numbers of his People, than to the Times of Ieroboam the second, when the Kingdom of Israel was broken and near to its Ruine.

Marginal references: 2 Kin. 15. 5. 32.; 2 Kin. 14. 16, 28.