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Abijam ( Hebrew: אֲבִיָּם, Modern: ʼAvīyam, Tiberian: ʼĂḇīyyām, "father of the sea" or "my father is the sea/is Yam "; Biblical Greek: Αβιού, 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.
Jan 4, 2022 · Abijah reigned for only three years (913–911 BC) in Judah before he died. 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 David his forefather had been” (1 Kings 15:3).
1 Kings 15. New International Version. Abijah King of Judah. 15 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijah[ a] became king of Judah, 2 and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Maakah daughter of Abishalom.[ b]
According to 1 Chronicles 2:24, Abiah was the wife of Hezron, the grandson of Judah by Pharez, and the mother of Ashur, the father of Tekoa. The MT is difficult as the LXX, Syr. and Targum read differently.
Abijah, (“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). (2) The second son of Samuel (I Samuel.
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ABIJAH. 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. (1) The seventh son of Becher the son of Benjamin ( 1 Chronicles 7:8 ). (2) The second son of the prophet Samuel ( 1 Samuel ...
Abijah King of Judah. 13 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam, Abijah became king of Judah, 2 and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Maakah,[ a] a daughter[ b] of Uriel of Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. 3 Abijah went into battle with an army of four hundred thousand able fighting men, and ...
