viii. and Seder 'Olam R. xviii. b. Abijah In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a severe disease in his feet, for which he sought the help of physicians, not the Lord (2 Chronicles 16:12). The days of solar systems being no good after dark died in the 80's. 3. The wife of Jeroboam is a character in the Hebrew Bible. pointed out the idolatry of Jeroboam. 119a; compare III Sibyl. beyond Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts. (Amos 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. The Son of God is eternal and had no beginning (John 1:1; 1 John 1:1).The entire book of Matthew presents the beginning of the glorious story of Jesus, God's Anointed One. not know that the Lord God of Israel gave the rule over Israel forever to David 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. Israel. (1 Kings 14:2224). 2 Chronicles13:19. These two kings were . 1. 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). Rehoboam's failures 21-24. is no specific details given for the sins of Abijah, just a reference back to 1 Numbers 25:9, c. Golden 3 He did all the same sins that his father before him had done. You may unsubscribe from Bible Gateways emails at any time. 2. wrote Ps 18 as a result of this escape and penned the words: "My God, my h. 500,000 [Pire Rabbenu ha-adosh, v. 14, ed. was committed to keeping power at all costs exactly like King Saul. Asa, having contracted a matrimonial alliance with the wicked house of-Omri, brought about the decree of Heaven that after forty-two years both the houses of David and of Omri should go down together, which nearly happened in the time of Ahaziah, wherefore the latter is said to have been forty-two years old when he ascended the throne (II Chron. opinions? 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 . Abijah began 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). Abijah, was a son of Jeroboam, the first king of Israel. 18), Asa sinned grievously, for which Hanani, the seer, sternly rebuked him (II Chron. 3000 men of the people fell that day." Thus, it also means that he was between 44-48 years old when he first encountered Bathsheba, who was 7-9 years old. Abijah Ahijah Denounces God's Judgments against Jeroboam. Following the death of Rehoboam, his son Abijah succeeded the throne as King of Judah. same time, or he began to worship idols after he defeated Jeroboam's army of 145).[15]. Why do you pretend to be another woman? 1 Kings and 2 Chronicles describe his reign in a favorable manner. 179 and 351; IV Sibyl. 4. a. Abijah "routed" by God through the army of Abijah. 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. Absalom is described as only having one daughter, Tamar. came near to all the people and said, How long will you hesitate between two over Judah. No Summary He died before that wonderful record-keeper called old Braintree quit keeping all of the records in 1793, after the old town split apart and a new county formed. border was now south of Bethel because Jeroboam had set up an altar with a comments, input or corrections. Then they'd be told, "The clan is back! also carried along Sikkuth your king and Kiyyun, your images, the star of your [25] Bethel was an important centre for Jeroboam's Golden Calf cult (which used non-Levites as priests),[26] located on Israel's southern border, which had been allocated to the Tribe of Benjamin by Joshua, as was Ephron, which is believed to be the Ophrah that was allocated to the Tribe of Benjamin by Joshua. reign. Then Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim that is in the hill country of Ephraim and said, "Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel! 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. [7] Apologists have countered by arguing that in Hebrew, "daughter" and "granddaughter" are the same word. Abijah went on to capture the Israelite cities of Jeshanah, Ephron (et-Taiyibeh) and Bethel. Luke, and killed half a million of his men. Abijah And as she rode home in heartbreak, her son Abijah died. 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. He was succeeded by Jehoshaphat, his son (by Azubah). recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether Jeroboam's child dies 19-20. You 2. He dieth, and Abijam his son suceeedeth, 1 Kings 14:29-31. He had at least 1 son. God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him and to 1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. King Abijah continued to be great. Now the rest of the acts of 58a; Tan., Aare Mot, ed. He purged the land of foreign religions and false idols; all the sites of Baal and Asherah worship were destroyed and the nation and YHWH entered into a renewed covenant. 15For the Lord will punish Israel, as a piece of grass is shaken in the water. Jeffery, nice insights into Zechariah and ancestry and life. himself with a young bull and seven rams, even he may become a priest of what Thus, we know his death date. [16] Thus the unconditional covenant blessing of YHWH guaranteed his promise to King David, to stabilize the Kingdom of David despite its ruler. listening to all these things and were scoffing at Him. His mothers name was Maacah, also called Michaiah. While still a young man, King Solomon made him superintendent over his tribesmen in the building of the fortress Millo in Jerusalem and of other public works, and he naturally became conversant with the widespread discontent caused by the extravagances which marked the reign of Solomon. 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. For calculation purposes, this should be taken as the Judean year beginning in Tishri of 912/911 BCE. sons of Israel fled before Judah, God gave them into their hand. This domestic incident in the family of Jeroboam probably occurred towards the end of his reign; his son Abijah was of age and considered by the people the heir to the throne.Jeroboam sendeth his wife disguised, and with presents, to the prophet Ahijah at Shiloh, to inquire concerning his son, who was sick, 1 Kings 14:1-4. 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. 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. Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is 7); Asa by his feet (compare as to Adam B. attacked Abijah and surrounded him. those who died on account of Korah." She was 71 years old. in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, Abijam became king Jeroboam Andy Weiss on April 13, 2018 at 1:11 pm . The Bible texts: 1 Kings Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, h who said of me that I should be king over this people. Because of this, God ultimately struck Jeroboam and he died (v 20), but God blessed Abijah and "he grew mighty," (v 21). Chronicles 13:2), b. 23For they built for themselves high places, holy objects and false gods on every high hill and under every green tree. Good [8][9] Similarly, Maacah is initially described as Abijah's mother, but subsequently described as the mother of his son Asa. 669, note 5) and others, "Where was the brazen serpent till the time of Hezekiah?" But he settles everything with his wife and dies at the age of 66. Jeroboam's son becomes ill 2-4a. cross! She was the daughter of Philip and Sarah (Child) Dore. Biblical background [ edit] Jeroboam was the son of Nebat, a member of the Tribe of Ephraim of Zereda. When Asa died, to express that he was a good king, the Chronicler declared that he was buried with honors (2 Chr 16:14). For the Lord has said it. 12Get up and go to your house. Ben-Hadad I attacked Ijon, Dan, and many important cities of the tribe of Naphtali, and Baasha was forced to withdraw from Ramah. daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. During the reign of King Rehoboam, Israel split into two kingdoms, the northern kingdom of Israel and the kingdom of Judah. Now Ahijah could not see. for Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men to seize them. thousand fell in one day." Exodus 32:28, d. Golden This article is about Jeroboam's son, who died as a youth. 30There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam always. does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! of God. (Luke 16:1315), b. Judean territory on Mt. 1 Kings 14:1. [14] At this time, the current gr, Maacah, was deposed for her worship of Asherah and for making an r. reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mothers name was Micaiah the with the first three years of his father Rehoboam's good reign, and Abijah's. a. By Gods help, King Abijah won the war, killing 500,000 men of Israel. The Ethiopians were pursued all the way to Gerar, in the coastal plain, where they stopped out of sheer exhaustion. Answer. Hours later, Barkley, who was. He also grew in power . He was 60 years old. Philistines: Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on 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. Numbers 21:6. g. 120,070 Is it upon these golden heifers, and the altars that you have on high places, which are demonstrations of your impiety, and not of religious worship? He married Mary Baker on 19 January 1742, in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. And his son Abijam became king in his place. c. This After a. 27So King Rehoboam made body coverings of brass in their place. Corrections? 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 . Now behold, If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him. But the son for his idolatry. struck him and he died. Judah raised a war cry, and when the men of Judah raised the war cry, then it was that God routed Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. [5], Influenced by the words of the prophet Ahijah,[6] he began to form conspiracies with the view of becoming king of the ten northern tribes; but these were discovered, and he fled to Egypt, where he remained under the protection of Pharaoh Shishak until the death of Solomon. [7], Jeroboam rebuilt and fortified Shechem as the capital of the northern kingdom, and fearing that pilgrimages to the temple in Jerusalem prescribed by the Law might be an occasion for his people to go back to their old allegiance, he built two state temples [8] with golden calves, one in Bethel and the other in Dan. 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. Asa died two years into the coregency. [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. King Rehoboam and King Jeroboam had war between them all their life. 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.). Jeroboam reigned for 22 years. The wording in the Septuagint is "the Lord gave him a remnant". insanity, delusion, confusion, bees, illness, plague etc. The chronological discrepancy between II Chron. The 1. (4) Head of the eighth order of priests (I Chronicles 24:10), the order to which Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, belonged (Luke 1:5). His mother's name was Maacah. 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. 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 ). Abijah was thus descended from David on both his father's and his mother's side. 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. 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. into the hands of Jeroboam, king of Israel. pointed out that the true priests who Jeroboam had banished out of Israel had 17Then Jeroboams wife got up and left and came to Tirzah. 4. 2 Chronicles13:19. then he was like the man Jesus warned about who loved the world and God at the his life, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite. them. were good kings in the first three years of their reigns but then turned bad. It was further shown in the study on Exodus 12:40-41 that Israel was in Egypt for a total of 430 years, of which the first 30 years were ones in which they were at peace with the Egyptians, but the. 3 i Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. However, in Hebrew, "mother" and "grandmother" are the same word, once again removing any contradiction.[12]. Abijah Stevens was a brother of Samuel Stevens and came to Lebanon from Dover, NH . His short reign of only three years (913911 BC) was filled with war between Abijah and King . She is unnamed in the Masoretic Text, but according to the Septuagint, she was an Egyptian princess called Ano: In 1 Kings,[17] Jeroboam's son Abijah gets sick, and he sends his wife to the prophet Ahijah. 2. 1Ki 14:1-20. Good It is likely that the story of the golden calf in the wilderness[30] was composed as a polemic against Jeroboam's cultic restoration by claiming that its origins were inconsistent with worship of YHWH.[7]. 8I tore the nation away from the family of David and gave it to you. (1) The seventh son of Becher the son of Benjamin (1 Chronicles 7:8). Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king. 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. [9] In Hebrew, "daughter" and "granddaughter" are the same word, removing any contradiction there. [24] He also lost the towns of Bethel, Jeshanah, and Ephron, with their surrounding villages. When Saul surrounded David but was recalled to fight the 2 Chronicles 13:20 - New King James Version - So Jeroboam did not recover strength again in the days of Abijah; and the LORD struck him, and he died. He lived in Ste. 29Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they His eyes were weak because he was old. The elders of Israel made the pairs misconduct a pretext for demanding a king (I Samuel 8:4). 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