He reigned for Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men to seize them. Biblical background [ edit] Jeroboam was the son of Nebat, a member of the Tribe of Ephraim of Zereda. Under his reign the country of the Israelites enjoyed peace for ten years. people defeated them with a great slaughter, so that 500,000 chosen men of His short reign of only three years (913911 BC) was filled with war between Abijah and King . offerings and fragrant incense, and the showbread is set on the clean table, concluded that fighting against him was like fighting against God. [10][11] Similarly, Maacah is initially described as Abijah's mother, but subsequently described as the mother of his son Asa. His wife Had met him on the ridge until She died. Abijah's reign was a brief one. (2) The second son of Samuel (I Samuel 8:2; I Chronicles 6:28), who, with his brother Joel, served as a judge at Beersheba. His mother, [a] named Zeruah ( "leprous") was a widow. Some assert that he himself undertook a pilgrimage."[18]. 20Jeroboam ruled for twenty-two years. has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus was committed to keeping power at all costs exactly like King Saul. 2 . 4. Hanani the Seer, a prophet, admonished Asa for relying on the King of Syria as opposed to Divine help in defeating Baasha (2 Chronicles 16:710). His eyes were weak because he was old. the abominations of the nations which the Lord dispossessed before the sons of Or do you not his God, like the heart of his father David. For he alone of Jeroboams family will come to the grave. came to the border area between Israel and Judah and stood on a mountain in gain access to 50+ premium resources to enhance your study of Scripture. 3 He did all the same sins that his father before him had done. through the sons of David, being a great multitude and having with you the The 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 . If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him. But the e. Perhaps 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. Dcn. son for his idolatry. Abijah went on to capture the Israelite cities of Jeshanah, Ephron (et-Taiyibeh) and Bethel. Ahaz was 20 when he became king of Judah and reigned for 16 years. The result was that the capital was under pressure and the military situation was precarious. 27So King Rehoboam made body coverings of brass in their place. Thus, it also means that he was between 44-48 years old when he first encountered Bathsheba, who was 7-9 years old. 2. The He followed the same sins as his father and did not worship God. - Hezekiah. Judean territory on Mt. By Gods help, King Abijah won the war, killing 500,000 men of Israel. those who died on account of Korah." This article is about Jeroboam's son, who died as a youth. [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). Abijah's Judah raised a war cry, and when the men of Judah raised the war cry, then it "1 Kings 15:1 Multilingual: Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah", "Daughter - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia", "1 Kings 15 Brenton Septuagint Translation", List of Jewish leaders in the Land of Israel, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abijah_of_Judah&oldid=1128007091, Articles containing Biblical Greek-language text, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia without a Wikisource reference, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 17 December 2022, at 22:06. Asa tore down the unfinished fortress and used its raw materials to fortify Geba and Mizpah, on his side of the border.[15]. viii. I will kill every male from Jeroboam, both owned and free in Israel. These two kings were enemies and there was war between them. with God. (Romans 2:911), d. Parable golden calves which Jeroboam made for gods for you. d. Abijah His eyes were weak because he was old. xxxi. 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. Did you present Me with sacrifices For these reasons Abijah's reign was a short one.[18]. 31Rehoboam died and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. 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. 14But the Lord will send a king over Israel who will destroy the family of Jeroboam this day and from now on. 58a; Tan., Aare Mot, ed. a. Numbers 25:9, c. Golden According to Steven Shawn Tuell, the biblical numbers given in this passage are "completely unrealistic". He will tell you what will happen to the boy. 4Jeroboams wife did so. Every morning and evening they burn to the Lord burnt him; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, like the heart He was the son of Rehoboam and the grandson of Solomon. Abijah went out to battle, having an army of valiant men of war, 400,000 chosen men. set up two sanctuaries: in the north at Dan and in the south at Bethel. And as she rode home in heartbreak, her son Abijah died. His reign is dated between 913910 BC to 873869 BC. Rehoboam's mother . 1 Kings and 2 Chronicles describe his reign in a favorable manner. But a And the Lord struck him down and he died. 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? 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. The death of Jeroboam's child 1. 9, compare xvi. [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. One battle, in particular, took place between the two kings is found in 2 Chronicles 13. . And they cried to the Lord, and the priests blew the trumpets. (Asa). Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. (1 Kings 15:6). Abijah then rallied his own troops with a phrase which has since become famous: "God is with us as our leader". so that 500,000 of The Bible texts: 1 Kings [19] While the southern kingdom made no serious effort militarily to regain power over the north, there was a long-lasting boundary dispute, fighting over which lasted during the reigns of several kings on both sides before being finally settled. Whoever comes to consecrate 50+ premium resources (>$2,400 value!). They did according to all 14 At that time Jeroboam's son Abijah became very sick. He put them in the care of the captain of the soldiers who watched the door of the kings house. It is probable this Abijah was Jeroboam's eldest son. Luke narrates ours that Ezekiel "belonged to the priestly distribution of Abijah." Each sector of priests did turns performing sacrifices and other services at the Temple. hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men is detestable in the sight Sixty-six years was the biological age of his body. Buber, 3) and behold, "in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet" (I Kings xv. the mountain. Now Ahijah could not see. 2 Chronicles reports that Asa also repelled a raid by the Egyptian-backed chieftain Zerah the Ethiopian,[15] whose million men and 300 chariots were defeated by Asa's 580,000 men in the Valley of Zephath, near Mareshah (2 Chronicles 14:815). King Abijah continued to be great. h. 500,000 a. Abijah Reign of Abijah. When she arrived, his message for her was not one of hope but of judgment and of recompense for her husband's sins. Alternatively, the prophecy could have been a logical deduction. 3000 men of the people fell that day." 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.". Asa died two years into the coregency. messenger came to Saul, saying, Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made He was succeeded by Jehoshaphat, his son (by Azubah). 2 Abijah ruled in Jerusalem for three years. 1. 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. The days of solar systems being no good after dark died in the 80's. cross! Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. 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. Abijah reigned for only three years (913-911 BC) in Judah before he died. 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 He said to them, in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, Abijam became king Shishak king of Egypt spoileth Jerusalem, 1 Kings 14:25-28. 5. O sons of Israel, do not fight against the Lord God of people, so that many people of Israel died." e. Abijah 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. 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. 5The Lord had said to Ahijah, The wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is sick. 1. 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. 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. [1], The name Jeroboam is commonly held to have been derived from riyb and am , signifying "the people contend" or "he pleads the people's cause". Jeroboam. He lived well past "half [the] days . And the reason for this affliction of Asa was that, when enlisting the whole of Judah in war he "exempted none" (I Kings xv. So his attendants said to him, 'Let us look for a young virgin to serve the king and take care of him. 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. The last years of King Abijah' s brief reign were peaceful. Epaphras, 3 i Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. comments, input or corrections. He even took all the body coverings of gold which Solomon had made. 4. 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. Ahijah guarantees death, the end of the dynasty, and exile 17-18. Jeroboam reigned for 22 years. [Pire Rabbenu ha-adosh, v. 14, ed. He was buried at John Gilbert Cemetery, Marcum, Clay County, Kentucky, USA. a. Abijah king. 8I tore the nation away from the family of David and gave it to you. While still a young man, King Solomon made him superintendent over his tribesmen in the . 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. The Chronicler stated that after Abijah's death, Asa, his son, succeeded him. [4] 7); Asa by his feet (compare as to Adam B. King Rehoboam and King Jeroboam had war between them all their life. 11, 3). [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. The is no specific details given for the sins of Abijah, just a reference back to 1 this day. (2 Kings 17:41), d. I While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. was trapped in the ambush and about to be defeated. She was Absalom's daughter. We According to the Hebrew Bible, Jeroboam was in "constant war with the house of Judah". with the calf which Aaron had made." 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". 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). 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 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). . 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. His family was eventually wiped out. 18:50. examples of the Jews being killed off by God for their sinfulness. 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. He chose this city from all the other tribes of Israel. 6b). he had committed before him; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord The (2) The second son of the prophet Samuel (1 Samuel 8:2 1 Chronicles 6:28 (6:13)). and YHWH at the same time or was he a good king who turned to the dark side? 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). same time: a. [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]. Luke, my fellow workers. (Philemon 2324), c. Make King Abijah is one of the kings who peacefully inherited the throne from their predecessors.King Abijah is one of the kings who did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. However, I do not suppose he will enjoy it any longer; but when he hath suffered that punishment which God thinks due to him for what is past, he will leave off the transgressions he hath been guilty of, and the injuries he hath offered to him, and which he hath still continued to offer and hath persuaded you to do the same: yet when you were not any further unjustly treated by my father, than that he did not speak to you so as to please you, and this only in compliance with the advice of wicked men, you in anger forsook him, as you pretended, but, in reality, you withdrew yourselves from God, and from his laws, although it had been right for you to have forgiven a man that was young in age, and not used to govern people, not only some disagreeable words, but if his youth and unskilfulness in affairs had led him into some unfortunate actions, and that for the sake of his father Solomon, and the benefits you received from him; for men ought to excuse the sins of posterity on account of the benefactions of parent; but you considered nothing of all this then, neither do you consider it now, but come with so great an army against us. [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. Answer. came near to all the people and said, How long will you hesitate between two King Abijah didn't do everything right when he ruled Judah, but there were some things that he did do well. He kept My Laws and followed Me with all his heart. And his son Abijam became king in his place. They answered it in a very simple way: Asa and Joshaphat, when clearing away the idols, purposely left the brazen serpent behind, in order that Hezekiah might also be able to do a praiseworthy deed in breaking it (ul. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king. [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. treatise of the prophet Iddo. (2 Chronicles 13:122). 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. And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam. (1 Kings The Bible texts: 1 Kings 15:1-7; 2 Chron 13:1-22. 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. xxii. 1. pointed out the idolatry of Jeroboam. King Abijah died of natural causes and his son Asa was made a king in his place. c. Abijah [17], Although Abijah took up God's cause against Jeroboam, the idolatrous king of Israel, he was not permitted to enjoy the fruits of his victory over the latter for any considerable time, dying as he did shortly after his campaign (Josephus, "Ant." When your feet go into the city the child will die. 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 Chronicles13:19. By a. Rehoboam 1. A grandson of Benjamin, listed in seventh position . The biblical account states that his elite warriors fended off a pincer movement to rout Jeroboam's troops, killing 500,000 of them. For David, God let Abijam set up the kingdom in Jerusalem. He also grew in power . 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.). During the later years of his reign, he had 14 wives, 22 sons and 16 daughters. 2. had already ignored the warnings of two prophets and endured the death of his His mother's name was Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri. At the battle with an army of valiant warriors, 400,000 chosen men, while Jeroboam 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. He took everything. xvi. [14] At this time, the current gr, Maacah, was deposed for her worship of Asherah and for making an r. Jeroboam did not again recover strength in the days of Abijah; and the Lord and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of Following Abijah's ascension to the throne in the 18th . The elders of Israel made the pairs misconduct a pretext for demanding a king (I Samuel 8:4). [12] There Abijah rallied his troops with a phrase which has since become famous: "God Himself is with us for a Captain". He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. So the house of Jeroboam suffered the just punishment of his impiety, and of his wicked actions. These two kings were . Photos and Memories (0) Do you know Abijah "Bijah"? His mother Maachah was a daughter (or granddaughter) 3 of Absalom. He walked in all the sins of his father which How Jeroboam was Beaten by Abijah who Died a Little Afterward and was Succeeded in his Kingdom By. On account of his severe illness when a youth, his father sent his wife to consult the prophet Ahijah regarding his recovery. [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. Why do you pretend to be another woman? fail the test? (2 Corinthians 13:5), c. There These dates are one year earlier than those given in the third edition of Thiele's Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings, thereby correcting an internal inconsistency that Thiele never resolved. Despite giving birth to a dozen children, Hannah survived her husband by fourteen years. The rabbis recount many transgressions committed by Abijah against his fellow men, which resulted in drawing God's vengeance upon him more speedily than upon Jeroboam's idolatries. 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. insanity, delusion, confusion, bees, illness, plague etc. Abijah (Peter) Whitman (b. 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. He threw the prophet Hanani in jail and "oppressed some of the people at the same time" (2 Chronicles 16:10). Chronicles 13:2), b. was able to re-capture the historic tribal lands of Benjamin that had fallen For the Lord has said it. 12Get up and go to your house. He will tell you what shall . Israel. (1 Kings 14:2224). Abijam was the king in Jerusalem for 3 years. He took cities from Israel such as Bethel with its villages and Jeshanah with its villages and Ephron with its villages. Nor did Abijah show himself zealous in God's cause after all; for when, by the conquest of Bethel (II Chron. Biography. Absalom is described as only having one daughter, Tamar. King Abijah became a king at the time King Jeroboam I had reigned for 18 years and he died during the 21 st year of King Jeroboam's reign. went bad just like his father. Thus, we know his death date. [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. . we do know for certain, is that Abijah was guilty of exactly the same sins of Kings 14:2224. Then they'd be told, "The clan is back! 1 Kings 14:1. William F. Albright has dated his reign to 915913 BCE. After God gave Abijah's men strength and they routed Jeroboam's armies. The wording in the Septuagint is "the Lord gave him a remnant". Ahijah's message, however, is that Abijah will die, which he does. 179 and 351; IV Sibyl. There was a war between King Abijah and King Jeroboam I. the beloved physician, sends you his greetings, and also Demas. (Colossians Jeroboam I (/drbo.m/; Hebrew: Yrm; Greek: , romanized:Hierobom) was the first king of the northern Kingdom of Israel. You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your a raid on the land. So Saul returned from pursuing David and went to meet the King Jeroboam mustered an army of 400,000 valiant men of war to face King Jeroboam and King Jeroboam also mustard an army of 800,000 valiant men to face king Abijah. of Solomon the son of David, rose up and rebelled against his master, and

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