Then they'd be told, "The clan is back! During the later years of his reign, he had 14 wives, 22 sons and 16 daughters. Babcock was the only city that had power, water and internet in that part of florida right through hurricane Ian in 2022. land: "The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the worthless men gathered about him, scoundrels, who proved too strong for The Jewish Encyclopedia. 2 Chronicles13:19. On Sept. 29, 2002, Randell's wife, Sonita L. Barkley, drowned their three sons - 4 -year-old Jehdiah, 3-year-old Abijah and 7-month-old Shereef - in a bathtub. Chart of historic Culls of Hebrews by God, a. 09 May 1560, d. 04 Jan 1626) Abijah (Peter) Whitman (son of Edward Whitman and Bridget Kellond) was born 09 May 1560 in Holt, Norfolk, England, and died 04 Jan 1626 in Holt, Norfolk, England. He even took all the body coverings of gold which Solomon had made. king/Bad king: He was a double-minded king who worshipped idols at the same Ahijah's message, however, is that Abijah will die, which he does. (3) A son of Jeroboam I, king of Israel; he died young (I Kings 14). They made Him jealous with their sins, more than all their fathers had done. It also came to pass, according as God had foretold, that some of Jeroboam's kindred that died in the city were torn to pieces and devoured by dogs, and that others of them that died in the fields were torn and devoured by the fowls. himself with a young bull and seven rams, even he may become a priest of what As she came to the door of the house, the child died. He formed an alliance with Ben-Hadad I, king of Aram-Damascus, and using a monetary bribe, convinced him to break his peace treaty with Baasha and invade the Northern Kingdom (2 Chronicles 16:26). border was now south of Bethel because Jeroboam had set up an altar with a d. Abijah the beloved physician, sends you his greetings, and also Demas. (Colossians According to Steven Shawn Tuell, the biblical numbers given in this passage are "completely unrealistic". sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant tree. His eyes were weak because he was old. His mother, however, turned out to be an idolatress ( 1 Kings 15:13 ). After this event, he returned and participated in a delegation sent to ask the new king Rehoboam to reduce taxes. [13] The prophecy is fulfilled in 2 Kings. not know that the Lord God of Israel gave the rule over Israel forever to David Jeroboam reigned for 22 years. Luke, And so far concerning Abijah, the son of Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, as his history hath come down to us. country of Ephraim, and said, Listen to me, Jeroboam and all Israel: Do you He kept My Laws and followed Me with all his heart. Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, when he was young and timid and could not hold He is the one who said that I would be king over these people. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 9 daughters. In Asa's 36th year, King Baasha of Israel attacked the Kingdom of Judah (2 Chronicles 16:1; the Seder Olam and some later commentators take this as the 36th year since the division of the kingdom, not the 36th year of Asa's reign. The prophet, though blind with old age, knew the wife of Jeroboam as soon as she approached, and under a divine impulse he announced to her that inasmuch as in Abijah alone of all the house of Jeroboam there was . King Abijah, also called King Abiah or King Abijam, was the son of King Rehoboam and father of King Asa. But for Davids sake the Lord his He married Mary Baker on 19 January 1742, in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. According to Edwin R. Thiele chronology,[1] when Asa became very ill, he made Jehoshaphat coregent. in the Bible. Abijam ( Hebrew: , Modern: Avyam, Tiberian: yym, "father of the sea" or "my father is the sea/is Yam "; Biblical Greek: , romanized: Aviou; Latin: Abiam) [1] was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the fourth king of the House of David and the second of the Kingdom of Judah. This worship was in-line with local beliefs and practices, which were observed by the native peoples, and may or may not have been part of the official state religion. His mother, [a] named Zeruah ( "leprous") was a widow. After concluding a battle with Zerah of Ethiopia in the 10th year of his reign, there was peace in Judah (2 Chronicles 14:1,9) until the 36th year of Asa's reign (2 Chronicles 16:1). So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of He walked in all the sins of his father which is no specific details given for the sins of Abijah, just a reference back to 1 BibleGateway+ is less than $5/mo. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abijah, Fact Monster - People - Biography of Abijah. William F. Albright has dated his reign to 913873 BCE, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 911/910870/869 BCE. Now as the armies stood in array, ready for action and dangers, and were just going to fight, Abijah stood upon an elevated place, and beckoning with his hand, he desired the multitude and Jeroboam himself to hear first with silence what he had to say. Luke 1:8-10 "Once when Zechariah's division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God, he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to go into the temple of the Lord and burn incense. 3 i Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. The At that time, many northerners, particularly from the tribes Ephraim and Manasseh, migrated to the Kingdom of Judah because of the fruitful golden age in Judah, and the internal conflict in Israel after the fall of the dynasty of Jeroboam I. 18And all Israel buried him and had sorrow for him, as the Word of God was spoken through His servant Ahijah the man who spoke for God. like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. concluded that fighting against him was like fighting against God. 12:16; 13:1, 2) with a strenuous but unsuccessful effort to bring back the ten tribes of the northern Kingdom of Israel to their allegiance, [13] a path which in 2 Chronicles 11:4 his father had chosen not to follow. So his attendants said to him, 'Let us look for a young virgin to serve the king and take care of him. When Rehoboam died and her son Abijah became king, Maacah was the gebira - Queen Mother Abijah died after only two years Her grandson Asa succeeded and there was a power struggle between the two. 28Every time the king went into the house of the Lord, the soldiers would carry them and return them again to their room. blew the war trumpet and called upon God who struck the army of Jeroboam with Abijah was a righteous king at first and God worked with him in the defeat of Contact the author for offerings and fragrant incense, and the showbread is set on the clean table, And the reason for this affliction of Asa was that, when enlisting the whole of Judah in war he "exempted none" (I Kings xv. Abijah (Peter) Whitman (b. Bethel and Dan were already established cultic sites. Because of his victory in the war, King Abijah took cities from King Jeroboam such as Bethel with its villages and Jeshanah with its villages and Ephron with its villages. Kings 14:2224. Both of these are television films. He had at least 1 son. 2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, "Arise, and disguise yourself, that it not be known that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to g Shiloh. the abominations of the nations which the Lord dispossessed before the sons of Now behold, Calf at Sinai: "Then the Lord smote the people, because of what they did the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king over Judah. [14], According to the Deuteronomist,[15] "God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him" (1 Kings 15:4). Shittim, just before crossing the Jordan: "Those who died by the plague Most say she'd taken ill Because the desert took her boy. xvi. Whoever comes to consecrate [1], Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Abijam is another variant found in the Masoretic text at 1 Kings 14:31; 15:1, 7, 8.However, in 1 Kings 14:31 about 12 Hebrew manuscripts and the Bomberg edition of the Hebrew Bible of Jacob ben Chayyim (1524-1525) read "Abijah.". gospel with Paul but fell away to the world to destruction, a. 2 . Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Philistines captured the ark. 179 and 351; IV Sibyl. Azariah son of Oded, a wiseman and prophet, exhorted Asa[13] to reinforce strict national observance of The Law given to Moses, and Asa paid heed. c. The Now Ahijah could not see. Updates? 1. Asa died two years into the coregency. Although [2] John Gilbert is buried a little below the mouth of Little Creek. [19], According to the Rabbis, Asa was one of the five men who were distinguished by certain physical perfections possessed by Adam, but were, on account of their having abused them, afflicted in these very parts of their body. 2. Jeroboam's soldiers were killed. [12], Non-conformist minister Alexander Maclaren considers Abijah "a wiser and better man than his father". same time, or he began to worship idols after he defeated Jeroboam's army of Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king. And as she rode home in heartbreak, her son Abijah died. Two a. He died greatly honoured by his people, and was considered for the most part a righteous king. 2 Chronicles 14 tells us straightaway that Abijah eventually slept with his fathers and we are immediately introduced to his son, Asa. vii. The wording in the Septuagint is "the Lord gave him a remnant". At the entreaty of the man of God, his hand was restored to him again, but the miracle made no abiding impression on him. B. His mother's name was Maacah. it never had to end that way. Start your free trial today. Israel. (1 Kings 14:2224). Luke 1:5 In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah; and he had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. must not be double minded men: But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of 6 When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming to the door, he said, "Come in . to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded Then Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim that is in the hill country of Ephraim and said, "Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel! She was Absalom's daughter. She groaned for days and . In Edwin R. Thiele 's opinion Ahaz was co-regent with Jotham from 736/735 BC, and his sole reign began in 732/731 and ended in 716/715 BC. will not accept them; And I will not even look at the peace offerings of your 5:2127). Barbara remained in Texas and drew a pension and received her last pension payment 8 February 1900 and was dropped from the Pension Rolls on 31 July 1900 so she died sometime between those two dates. Andy Weiss on April 13, 2018 at 1:11 pm . 14At that time Jeroboams son Abijah became sick. They did all the hated things of the nations which the Lord drove away before the people of Israel. 19 After Herod 32 had died, an 33 angel of the Lord 34 appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt 20 saying, "Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child's life are dead." 21 So 35 he got up and took the child and his mother and returned to the land of Israel. Sign up now for the latest news and deals from Bible Gateway! These two kings were enemies and there was war between them. He was 60 years old. Little did he know that King Jeroboam was setting an ambush for him and his army. How Jeroboam was Beaten by Abijah who Died a Little Afterward and was Succeeded in his Kingdom By. people, so that many people of Israel died." pointed out that the true priests who Jeroboam had banished out of Israel had The Hebrew Bible describes the reign of Jeroboam to have commenced following a revolt of the ten northern Israelite tribes against Rehoboam that put an end to the United Monarchy. Take away from Me the noise of your songs; I will not even listen to Sadly, King Abijah is listed among the kings who did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. 1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. But Jeroboam, the king of the ten tribes, died when he had governed them two and twenty years; whose son Nadab succeeded him, in the second year of the reign of Asa. (2) The second son of Samuel (I Samuel 8:2; I Chronicles 6:28), who, with his . Epaphras, Then he died and was buried with his ancestors. his God, like the heart of his father David. 7) exemptsto march along (Soah 10a). 14But the Lord will send a king over Israel who will destroy the family of Jeroboam this day and from now on. from the rear, so that Israel was in front of Judah and the ambush was behind Chronicles account paints him as a good king with nothing bad to say about him. keep the charge of the Lord our God, but you have forsaken Him. of God. (Luke 16:1315), b. 23) also lasted thirty-six years In obtaining an alliance with the king of Syria against Baasha by giving away the gold and silver treasures of the house of the Lord (I Kings xv. struck him and he died. He was the son of Rehoboam and . those who died on account of Korah." Asa was zealous in maintaining the traditional worship of God, and in rooting out idolatry, with its accompanying immoralities. had already ignored the warnings of two prophets and endured the death of his listening to all these things and were scoffing at Him. According to 2 Chronicles 13:12, Abijah became king of Judah in the 18th year of the reign of Jeroboam, and reigned for three years. He did only what was right in My eyes. Ahaziah's true age when he became king of Judah is easy to discern by further research. Thanks. ii. Abijah, also spelled Abia, Hebrew Abiyyah, or Abiyyahu, (Yahweh Is My Father), any of nine different persons mentioned in the Bible, of whom the most noteworthy are the following: (1) The son and successor of Rehoboam, king of Judah (II Chronicles 12:16, 13), who reigned about two years (c. 915913 bc). xii. a. every effort to come to me soon; for Demas, having loved this present world, and the sons of Aaron are ministering to the Lord as priests, and the Levites of the Kings of Judah? Now there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. (2 Maacah lost, was deposed, and lived out the rest of her life in the Jerusalem harem. xxxi. Episode 120: King Jeroboam's son Abijah was sick, and as he sat at the boy's bedside, he called for his wife to disguise herself and seek out the prophet Ahijah. Birth and Marriage to Dalmatia. (2 Timothy 4:9-10), d. For of the Ten Virgins: Mt 25:1f, e. For And old man Zach Is coming up the hill!" With pack And staff and ninety years of life, Or more, some saidhe'd climb. God delivered the men of Israel into their hands of the men of Judah and they fled before Judah. 6. King Abijah saw king Jeroboam as one who has rebelled against the house of David and had managed to split Israel into two kingdoms and had successfully usurped ten tribes and made himself king over them. recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in youunless indeed you Therefore, I will make you go into exile They both give his reign as lasting 41 years. The Chronicler also emphasizes YHWH's promise as seen by Abijah's success against every effort by Jeroboam to defeat him:[12], God had given the Kingdom to David and his descendants (1 Chronicles 17:14) by a covenant of salt, meaning, of permanence (cf. Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles The treatise of the prophet Iddo. (2 Chronicles 13:122). Apologists argue similarly for the ambiguity of the term "mother". God gave Abijah's men strength and they routed Jeroboam's armies. Buber, 3) and behold, "in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet" (I Kings xv. But while he was still speaking Jeroboam sent some of his soldiers privately to encompass Abijab round about, on certain parts of the camp that were not taken notice of; and when he was thus within the compass of the enemy, his army was affrighted, and their courage failed them; but Abijah encouraged them, and exhorted them to place their hopes on God, for that he was not encompassed by the enemy. 58a; Tan., Aare Mot, ed. set up two sanctuaries: in the north at Dan and in the south at Bethel. Every morning and evening they burn to the Lord burnt 12:16; 13:1, 2) with a strenuous but unsuccessful effort to bring back the ten tribes of the northern Kingdom of Israel to their allegiance. Finally, when the religious transition was completed in Asa's fifteenth year, a great feast was held in Jerusalem at Solomon's Temple (2 Chronicles 15:1011). wrote Ps 18 as a result of this escape and penned the words: "My God, my In these two years he made an expedition against Gibbethon, a city of the Philistines, and continued the siege in order to take it; but he was conspired against while he was there by a friend of his, whose name was Baasha, the son of Ahijah, and was slain; which Baasha took the kingdom after the other's death, and destroyed the whole house of Jeroboam. Zechariah is old and (at first) childless. [1] John Gilbert died in 1869 per his Tombstone, other record says march 1868 (aged 111-112). Exodus 32:35, e. Golden 8 is readjusted by the interpretation that the thirty-sixth year of Chronicles refers to the thirty-six years of the secession of the northern kingdom, which was a punishment for the thirty-six years of Solomon's marriage to the daughter of Pharaoh, and ended in reality in the fifteenth year of Asa's reign, when Zerah the Ethiopian was vanquished by him; the alliance between the kingdoms of Israel and Syria (I Kings xi. 8I tore the nation away from the family of David and gave it to you. Abijah, also spelled Abia, Hebrew Abiyyah, or Abiyyahu, ("Yahweh Is My Father"), any of nine different persons mentioned in the Bible, of whom the most noteworthy are the following: (1) The son and successor of Rehoboam, king of Judah (II Chronicles 12:16, 13), who reigned about two years (c. 915-913 bc). Asa (Hebrew: .mw-parser-output .script-hebrew,.mw-parser-output .script-Hebr{font-family:"SBL Hebrew","SBL BibLit","Taamey Ashkenaz","Taamey Frank CLM","Frank Ruehl CLM","Ezra SIL","Ezra SIL SR","Keter Aram Tsova","Taamey David CLM","Keter YG","Shofar","David CLM","Hadasim CLM","Simple CLM","Nachlieli",Cardo,Alef,"Noto Serif Hebrew","Noto Sans Hebrew","David Libre",David,"Times New Roman",Gisha,Arial,FreeSerif,FreeSans}, Modern:Asa, Tiberian:s; Greek: ; Latin: Asa) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the third king of the Kingdom of Judah and the fifth king of the House of David. three years in Jerusalem; and his mothers name was Micaiah the daughter of 15:17), 2. spite of all this, he was either worshipping idols and YHWH side by side at the viii. 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Home BIBLE CHARACTERS History of King Abijah (Abijam), Father: King Rehoboam, 1 Kings 15:8Predecessor: King Rehoboam, 1 Kings 15:8Mother: Maacah/Michaiah, 2 Chronicles 13:2; 1 Kings 15:2Reign: 913 BC 912 BCSuccession: 2nd kingKingdom: Kingdom of JudahLength of reign: 3 years, 1 Kings 15:2Successor: King Asa, 1 Kings 15:8Other names: Abijam, 1 Kings 14:31; 1 Kings 15:1; 1 Kings 15:7-8Morality: evil, 1 Kings 15:3Biblical history: 2 Chronicles 13:1-22; 1 Kings 15:18. When Judah turned around, behold, they were attacked both front and rear; xxii. I will kill every male from Jeroboam, both owned and free in Israel. No Jew first and also of the Greek, but glory and honor and peace to everyone who When Rehoboam died, his son Abijam became king of Judah. 9But you have done more sinful things than all who were before you. 18:50. Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. [27], The account of Jeroboam's life, like that of all his successors, ends with the formula "And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel".[28]. xiii. It is written about him that he walked in all the sins that his father did before him, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father. 2 Chronicles13:19. The prophet, though blind with old age, knew the wife of Jeroboam as soon as she approached, and under a divine impulse he announced to her that inasmuch as in Abijah alone of . The wife of Jeroboam is a character in the Hebrew Bible. He lived in Ste. daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. The question that puzzled Heinrich Ewald ("Gesch. [3][4][5][6][7] Some scholars believe the biblical accounts of Asa's family to be contradictory;[8] however, a study of Hebrew linguistics removes any seeming contradictions. came to the border area between Israel and Judah and stood on a mountain in off" gentile nations who tried to fight the Hebrews, but these are all beyond Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts. (Amos 119a; compare III Sibyl. Since David died when he was 70 years old, it means that he was 50 years old when Bathsheba (9-11 years old) gave birth to Solomon. Exodus 32:28, d. Golden 18-23) instead of Asa. Corrections? Judah raised a war cry, and when the men of Judah raised the war cry, then it golden calves which Jeroboam made for gods for you. The result was that the capital was under pressure and the military situation was precarious. Abijah reigned for only three years (913-911 BC) in Judah before he died. man, unstable in all his ways. (James 1:58), b. the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways and his words are written in the This likely happened when Jeroboam repelled Rehoboam early in his [5] Although criticised for his cultic activities in 1 Kings,[9] calf worship was not new in Israelite ritual, but a reintroduction of earlier ritual. He will tell you what will happen to the boy. 4Jeroboams wife did so. many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they (2) The second son of the prophet Samuel (1 Samuel 8:2 1 Chronicles 6:28 (6:13)). 21 Solomon's son, Rehoboam, was 41 years old when he became king of Judah. [12] Jeroboam surrounded Abijah's army, engaging in the Battle of Mount Zemaraim. Abijah Or is it the exceeding multitude of your army which gives you such good hopes? Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the forced labor, and all things. (Philippians 3:1819). Abijah's He followed the same sins as his father and did not worship God. a raid on the land. 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