28Every time the king went into the house of the Lord, the soldiers would carry them and return them again to their room. [16] The Bible does not state whether Zerah was a pharaoh or a general of the army. [8][9] Similarly, Maacah is initially described as Abijah's mother, but subsequently described as the mother of his son Asa. 3. comments, input or corrections. I therefore give you counsel even now to repent, and to take better advice, and to leave off the prosecution of the war; to call to mind the laws of your country, and to reflect what it hath been that hath advanced you to so happy a state as you are now in.". And when Judah looked, they saw that the battle was in front of and behind them. In So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of good or bad. (2 Corinthians 5:10). hate, I reject your festivals, Nor do I delight in your solemn assemblies. 1 This is the scroll of the genealogy # 1:1 Or "The book of the origin (genesis) of Jesus Christ." The Greek text has no definite article ("This is the") and is most likely to be considered as a caption or title. a-bi'-ja ('abhiyah or 'abhiyahu (2 Chronicles 13:20, 21), "my father is Yahweh," or "Yahweh is father"): The name of six or more men and two women in the Old Testament. was committed to keeping power at all costs exactly like King Saul. 4. Abijah and his You may be looking for another Abijah. a. His short reign of only three years (913911 BC) was filled with war between Abijah and King . Or do you not Good 37). So his attendants said to him, 'Let us look for a young virgin to serve the king and take care of him. [7] Apologists have countered by arguing that in Hebrew, "daughter" and "granddaughter" are the same word. King Abijah became a king at the time King Jeroboam I had reigned for 18 years and he died during the 21st year of King Jeroboams reign. The his life, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite. Now behold, Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, when he was young and timid and could not hold c. Abijah According to the Jewish Encyclopedia the good that Abijah did for which he would be laid in the grave:"Rabbinical Literature:The passage, I Kings, xiv. He, forewarned by God, denounceth his ruin because of idolatry; and the death of his child; and the destruction of Israel, 1 Kings 14:5-16. other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. He took cities from Israel such as Bethel with its villages and Jeshanah with its villages and Ephron with its villages. Abijam is reported in the books of Kings and Chronicles as being the son of Maacah or Micaiah, and father of King Asa of Judah. BOUNDARY CHANGES, MOVES & LOST RECORDS. 6. and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of Then go to Shiloh. At In 2 Kings 18:2 Abi occurs as an abbreviation of this name. Following the death of Rehoboam, his son Abijah succeeded the throne as King of Judah. captured Jeshanah, a town in Ephraim and added it to his domain of control. Omissions? He was buried at John Gilbert Cemetery, Marcum, Clay County, Kentucky, USA. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abijah, Fact Monster - People - Biography of Abijah. For there is no partiality Concerning the Death of a Son of Jeroboam. She was Absalom's daughter. Jeffery, nice insights into Zechariah and ancestry and life. With God delivered the men of Israel into their hands of the men of Judah and they fled before Judah. a raid on the land. So Saul returned from pursuing David and went to meet the a. Abijah three years in Jerusalem; and his mothers name was Micaiah the daughter of While still a young man, King Solomon made him superintendent over his tribesmen in the . Bethel and Dan were already established cultic sites. Nor did Abijah show himself zealous in God's cause after all; for when, by the conquest of Bethel (II Chron. In the Zered Wady valley after leaving Kadesh Barnea for the promised He was succeeded by Jehoshaphat, his son (by Azubah). Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. According to Thiele, the calendars for reckoning the years of kings in Judah and Israel were offset by six months, that of Judah starting in Tishri (in the fall) and that of Israel in Nisan (in the spring). Little did he know that King Jeroboam was setting an ambush for him and his army. 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 . 2. my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you, as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, He married fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters." Abijah's . According to Rabbanic Literature Gehazi possessed a magnet by which he lifted up the idol made by Jeroboam, so that it was seen between heaven and earth; he had "Yhwh" engraved on it, and in consequence the idol (a calf) pronounced the first two words of the Decalogue (ib.). When Asa died, to express that he was a good king, the Chronicler declared that he was buried with honors (2 Chr 16:14). [20] Thiele's chronology for the first kings of Judah contained an internal inconsistency that later scholars corrected by dating these kings one year earlier, so that Asa's dates are taken as 912/911 to 871/870 BC in the present article. Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured from him several cities, Bethel his God, like the heart of his father David. his own against them. 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. - Hezekiah. 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. Instead, Abijah, with the help or influence of. migrated to Judah and were supporting him. Kadesh Barnea: "But those who died by the plague were 14,700, besides [2] John Gilbert is buried a little below the mouth of Little Creek. Asa was also not as just as he had been and oppressed some of the people. and his sons by a covenant of salt? of Solomon the son of David, rose up and rebelled against his master, and 7) (Tosef., Soah, xii. In his 36th year, he was confronted by Baasha, king of Israel. After Asa died, his son Jehoshaphat became the king of Judah (1 Kgs 15:24; 2 Chr 17:1). The elders of Israel made the pairs misconduct a pretext for demanding a king (I Samuel 8:4). Elder John Abijah "Bige" Gilbert, Sr was born in March of 1757 and died in March of 1868. [3] He had at least two sons, Abijah [4] and Nadab, who succeeded him on the throne. Elijah Abijah Stevens was a brother of Samuel Stevens and came to Lebanon from Dover, NH . to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded [19] As explained in the Rehoboam article, Thiele's chronology for the first kings of Judah contained an internal inconsistency which later scholars corrected by dating these kings one year earlier, so that Abijah's dates are taken as 915/914 to 912/911 BCE in the present article. David to this day. (1 Kings 12:18-19). Plug in, Turn on and Be En light ened! You clearly forgot that solar power can be stored now very efficiently for 24hr use. He will tell you what shall . 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. son for his idolatry. same time: a. Abijah's His wife Had met him on the ridge until She died. Zechariah is old and (at first) childless. in the Bible. Summary statement of Jeroboam's reign 21-31. When King Rehoboam, the first king of Judah, died, his son Abijah also called Abijam was made a king in his place. "The Chronicles of the Kings of Israel", likely compiled by or derived from these kings' own scribes, is likely the source for the basic facts of Jeroboam's life and reign, though the compiler(s) of the extant Book of Kings clearly made selective use of it and added hostile commentaries. An alternative interpretation of the English text claims, Last edited on 23 February 2023, at 04:51, Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible on 1 Kings 13, New English Translation of the Septuagint, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jeroboam&oldid=1141065113, This page was last edited on 23 February 2023, at 04:51. He will tell you what shall . 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. border was now south of Bethel because Jeroboam had set up an altar with a 11, 3). God had a sense of dj vu in the fact that both Abijah and his father Rehoboam with the first three years of his father Rehoboam's good reign, and Abijah's. [16] Thus the unconditional covenant blessing of YHWH guaranteed his promise to King David, to stabilize the Kingdom of David despite its ruler. will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the His mothers name was Naamah of Ammon. In 1 Chronicles 24, the order of Temple customer is laid get by operating numbering one through 24, with Abijah schedule as nine in the . After They made Him jealous with their sins, more than all their fathers had done. He married Mary Baker on 19 January 1742, in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Asa was zealous in maintaining the traditional worship of God, and in rooting out idolatry, with its accompanying immoralities. was that God routed Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. Attempting to arrest the prophet for his bold words of defiance, Jeroboam's hand was "dried up", and the altar before which he stood was rent asunder. 2 Chronicles13:19. Two 1 and I Kings xvi. b. reign. Ahaz is portrayed as an evil king in the Second Book of Kings (2 Kings 16:2). King Abijah reigned three years in Jerusalem. One of the alleged contradictions is that Maacah is sometimes described as the daughter of Absalom, and elsewhere the daughter of Uriel. BibleGateway+ is less than $5/mo. establish Jerusalem; because David did what was right in the sight of the Lord, [10], According to 1 Kings,[11] while Jeroboam was engaged in offering incense at Bethel, a "man of God" warned him that "a son named Josiah will be born to the house of David", who would destroy the altar (referring to King Josiah of Judah who would rule approximately three hundred years later). For that man ought not He walked in all the sins of his father which he had committed before him; and his heart was not . Abijah ruled Judah for only three years before he died. Abijah the double-minded "good king, bad king" who worshipped idols During the reign of King Rehoboam, Israel split into two kingdoms, the northern kingdom of Israel and the kingdom of Judah. Abijah was a righteous king at first and God worked with him in the defeat of while these nations feared the Lord, they also served their idols; their Abijah was a wicked king: "He committed all the sins his father had done before him; his heart was not fully devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of . He lived well past "half [the] days . Asa became very angry and threw Hanani in jail. [11] No attempted harmonization has found acceptance with scholars. When the God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to b. Abijah's He married fourteen wives, and had 22 sons, and 16 daughters. occupied the Talmudists also. Rehoboam and Judah sin against the Lord, 1 Kings 4:21-24. the other side of the mountain; and David was hurrying to get away from Saul, 1. the abominations of the nations which the Lord dispossessed before the sons of His mother's name was Maacah. 17Then Jeroboams wife got up and left and came to Tirzah. the sound of your harps. 21 Solomon's son, Rehoboam, was 41 years old when he became king of Judah. Gruenhut, p.72, has Asahel the light-footed (II Sam. g. Perhaps Jeroboam's son becomes ill 2-4a. 25) enjoined. xvi. [2][3][4] The Books of Chronicles refers to him as Abijah.[a][5]. then he was like the man Jesus warned about who loved the world and God at the O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper (2 Chronicles 13:12).. E. R. Thiele offers the dates 914/913 911/910 BCE. Jeroboam went bad just like his father. Ahaz was 20 when he became king of Judah and reigned for 16 years. The rabbis also point out that it was improper for Abijah to accuse the whole of Israel of idolatry and to proclaim the appointment of Jeroboam as king to have been the work of "vain men, the children of Belial" (II Chron. Now Jeroboam's son governed two years, and resembled his father in impiety and wickedness. Jeroboam reigned for 22 years. In a bid to serve him with justice, he went to war intending to reclaim the ten tribes that were under the leadership of King Jeroboam. c. Abijah 6b). man, unstable in all his ways. (James 1:58), b. (2) The second son of the prophet Samuel (1 Samuel 8:2 1 Chronicles 6:28 (6:13)). God is with us at our head and His priests with the signal trumpets to sound Then Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim that is in the hill country of Ephraim and said, "Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel! (3) A son of Jeroboam I, king of Israel; he died young (I Kings 14). The Ethiopians were pursued all the way to Gerar, in the coastal plain, where they stopped out of sheer exhaustion. Biography. But Abijah grew in strength. He will send Israel out from this good land He gave to their fathers. On account of his severe illness when a youth, his father sent his wife to consult the prophet Ahijah regarding his recovery. Leviticus 2:13). Judah had just been conquered and turned into a vassal of Egypt, while Israel stood between the Egyptian and Mesopotamian empires. He died on 7 February 1805, in Killingly, Windham, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Old Cemetery, Eastford, Windham, Connecticut, United States. Thus the men of Israel were subdued at that time, and the men of Judah prevailed because they relied on the Lord, the God of their fathers. StudyLght .org . king/Bad king: He was a double-minded king who worshipped idols at the same Every morning and evening they burn to the Lord burnt No When she comes she will pretend to be another woman., 6When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming to the door, he said, Come in, wife of Jeroboam. KingAbijah and his army struck and killed 500,000 men of the army of Israel. His eyes were weak because he was old. The Bible texts: 1 Kings 15:1-7; 2 Chron 13:1-22. wrote Ps 18 as a result of this escape and penned the words: "My God, my from the 10 tribes were killed directly by God: 2 Chronicles 13:4f. Abijah 1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. gain access to 50+ premium resources to enhance your study of Scripture. She was the daughter of Philip and Sarah (Child) Dore. valiant warriors. Initially, only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin remained to form the new kingdom of Judah, loyal to Rehoboam. She got ready and went to Shiloh, and came to Ahijahs house. a. worthless men gathered about him, scoundrels, who proved too strong for 2. Kingdom Period: Israel: 931-723 BC; Judah: 931-587 BC, The good king who turned to the dark side. Absalom is described as only having one daughter, Tamar. Now the rest of the acts of viii. Abijah "Bijah" Rigdon was born about 1750. 1 Kings 14:1. off" gentile nations who tried to fight the Hebrews, but these are all These two kings were . And the birds of the air will eat anyone who dies in the field. The Chronicler stated that after Abijah's death, Asa, his son, succeeded him. And when silence was made, he began to speak, and told them, -- "God had consented that David and his posterity should be their rulers for all time to come, and this you yourselves are not unacquainted with; but I cannot but wonder how you should forsake my father, and join yourselves to his servant Jeroboam, and are now here with him to fight against those who, by God's own determination, are to reign, and to deprive them of that dominion which they have still retained; for as to the greater part of it, Jeroboam is unjustly in possession of it. I. (2) The second son of Samuel (I Samuel 8:2; I Chronicles 6:28), who, with his . Test Then they'd be told, "The clan is back! Steve Rudd: Contact the author for b. Jeroboam Verse 1. Asa died two years later and was buried with his ancestors in Jerusalem, in the grave that he had dug for himself, and a pyre was lit in his honor (2 Chronicles 16:1314). a. Abijah [10] Abijah married fourteen wives, and had 22 sons and 16 daughters. The 20Jeroboam ruled for twenty-two years. the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king over Judah. for Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men to seize them. attend to their work. According to the Hebrew Bible, Jeroboam was in "constant war with the house of Judah". this day. (2 Kings 17:41), d. I Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. They did all the hated things of the nations which the Lord drove away before the people of Israel. Andy Weiss on April 13, 2018 at 1:11 pm . They both give his reign as lasting 41 years. 3. Template:TLI Template:RedirectDiffer Abijah, was a son of Jeroboam, the first king of Israel.On account of his severe illness when a youth, his father sent his wife to consult the prophet Ahijah regarding his recovery. She was 71 years old. The Ezekias (as by margin) of Matthew 1:9.Five and twenty years old.We have been told (2 Chronicles 28:1) that Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years.So that, if these numbers be correct, and the numbers of our verse correct, Hezekiah must have been born when his father was only eleven years old. King Abijah, son of King Rehoboam, was a king who did wicked in God's eyes: "And 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" ( 1 Kings 15:3 ). him. And his son Abijam became king in his place. will not accept them; And I will not even look at the peace offerings of your Epaphras, And Jeroboam drew up his line of battle against him with 800,000 chosen mighty warriors. They did according to all came near to all the people and said, How long will you hesitate between two 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. we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be Divided But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not forsaken Him; It is alternatively translated to mean "his people are many" or "he increases the people" (from rbb, meaning "to increase"), or even "he that opposes the people". 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). from the rear, so that Israel was in front of Judah and the ambush was behind You have put Me behind your back. 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. And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam. (1 Kings servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the xviii. Abijah [24] He also lost the towns of Bethel, Jeshanah, and Ephron, with their surrounding villages. idolatry as his father: a. Thus, it also means that he was between 44-48 years old when he first encountered Bathsheba, who was 7-9 years old. He was the son of Rehoboam and the grandson of Solomon. so that 500,000 of e. Abijah introducing Abijah, this is interjected in a way to show that the war of sins which they committed. And so far concerning Abijah, the son of Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, as his history hath come down to us. Frances died in 1804. 21Now Solomons son Rehoboam ruled in Judah. Either, first, Presently after the things described in the former chapter; which though related in the beginning of his reign, yet might be done a good while after it, and so Ahijah the prophet might be very old, as he is described to be, 1 Kings 14:4. Samson was distinguished by his strength, and behold, "his strength went from him" (Judges xvi. Yet did not Jeroboam lay any of these things to heart, but he brought together a very numerous army, and made a warlike expedition against Abijah, the son of Rehoboam, who had succeeded his father in the kingdom of the two tribes; for he despised him because of his age. messenger came to Saul, saying, Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made Contact the author for "Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah. Now Ahijah could not see. Have you not driven out them. are no gods. is no specific details given for the sins of Abijah, just a reference back to 1 1. 2) in contradiction with xxi. And they cried to the Lord, and the priests blew the trumpets. 3 i Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. The name of Rehoboams mother was Naamah of Ammon. You have gone and made for yourself other gods and objects to look like gods to make Me angry. 1 Corinthians 10:8, f. In the Septuagint he is called Hieroboam ().[2]. 5The Lord had said to Ahijah, The wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is sick. 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). [13] He began his three-year reign (2 Chr. Abijah In the eighteenth year of Jeroboam's reign, Abijah (also known as Abijam), Rehoboam's son, became king of Judah. thousand fell in one day." Asa (Hebrew: , 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.The Hebrew Bible gives the period of his reign between 40-41 years. Calf at Sinai: "Nor let us act immorally, as some of them did, and 23,000 ABIJAH. death of 500,000 Israelites is the largest single divine cull of sinful Hebrews xxxv. Calf at Sinai: "Then the Lord smote the people, because of what they did Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. 145).[15]. [12], Non-conformist minister Alexander Maclaren considers Abijah "a wiser and better man than his father". attacked Abijah and surrounded him. I made you the leader of My people Israel. 1 Kings and 2 Chronicles describe his reign in a favorable manner. He waged a major battle against Jeroboam in the mountains of Ephraim. xx. When Abijah became king he continued the war and battles that his father fought with Jeroboam. land: "The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the those who died on account of Korah." Start your free trial today. At that timea phrase used often loosely and indefinitely in sacred history. And when the time for the burning of incense came, all the assembled worshippers were praying outside.". 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. second king of Judah (son of Rehoboam) goes down in history as a bad king, but h. 500,000 and Seder 'Olam R. The His son dieth, and is buried; and he likewise: Nadab his son succeedeth, 1 Kings 14:17-20. The prophecies of doom concerning the fall of both the House of Jeroboam and the northern kingdom as a whole ("For the Lord shall smite Israel, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river",[29] might have been composed retroactively, after the events described had already come to pass. Compare Pire R. Eliezer liii., where, instead of five, six are mentioned, Josiah being added as the sixth, as boasting of and afflicted in his nostrils (II Chron. 2And Jeroboam said to his wife, Get ready and dress yourself so no one will know that you are the wife of Jeroboam. xiii. the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, and made for 6 When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming to the door, he said, "Come in . You (19011906). 14At that time Jeroboams son Abijah became sick. Abijah then rallied his own troops with a phrase which has since become famous: "God is with us as our leader". Sixty-six years was the biological age of his body. For calculation purposes, this should be taken as the Judean year beginning in Tishri of 912/911 BCE. His mother,[a] named Zeruah ( "leprous") was a widow. xiii. After 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. 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. (1) The seventh son of Becher the son of Benjamin (1 Chronicles 7:8). xvi. The last years of King Abijah' s brief reign were peaceful. We During the later years of his reign, he had 14 wives, 22 sons and 16 daughters. His reign is dated between 913-910 BC to 873-869 BC. xvii.). He married Alice Eaton on 1594579, (NOT the) daughter of Thomas Eaton and Isabel Baker. of God. 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