The Bible texts: 1 Kings During the reign of King Rehoboam, Israel split into two kingdoms, the northern kingdom of Israel and the kingdom of Judah. [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. 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. 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. after this victory he became prideful in his power and turned to idols. And his son Abijam became king in his place. and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel? But you have not been like My servant David. Abijam (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: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. In the Zered Wady valley after leaving Kadesh Barnea for the promised For they also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant tree. 19Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he made war and how he ruled, are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. 2 Abijah ruled in Jerusalem for three years. After Jeroboam's soldiers were killed. . land: "The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the Calf at Sinai: "Then the Lord smote the people, because of what they did b. And when the time for the burning of incense came, all the assembled worshippers were praying outside.". with the first three years of his father Rehoboam's good reign, and Abijah's. You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your to Dalmatia. (2 Timothy 4:9-10), d. For Good And when the men of Judah shouted, God defeated King Jeroboam and all Israel before King Abijah and his army. Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. xvi. their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly the alarm against you. One of the alleged contradictions is that Maacah (Abijah's mother) is sometimes described as the daughter of Absalom, and elsewhere the daughter of Uriel. The Ethiopians were pursued all the way to Gerar, in the coastal plain, where they stopped out of sheer exhaustion. Thus, it also means that he was between 44-48 years old when he first encountered Bathsheba, who was 7-9 years old. 3000 men of the people fell that day." 22 But when he heard . He will tell you what will happen to the boy. 4Jeroboams wife did so. xxxi. But a The Chronicler stated that after Abijah's death, Asa, his son, succeeded him. 2 Chronicles13:19. According to the Book of Chronicles Abijah had a force of 400,000 and Jeroboam 800,000. 6 When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming to the door, he said, "Come in . 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). Asa took gold and silver from the Temple and sent them to Ben-Hadad I, king of Aram Damascus, in exchange for the Damascene king canceling his peace treaty with Baasha. God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to He lived well past "half [the] days . xvi.). a. Rehoboam 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). His son dieth, and is buried; and he likewise: Nadab his son succeedeth, 1 Kings 14:17-20. had already ignored the warnings of two prophets and endured the death of his Jeroboam. Little did he know that King Jeroboam was setting an ambush for him and his army. Remember, there were many other times when God "killed 4:14), b. the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, and made for b. Abijah's Now there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. (2 Now c. There Two 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]. She died on 14 Apr 1843, also in Constableville. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. every effort to come to me soon; for Demas, having loved this present world, Gruenhut, p.72, has Asahel the light-footed (II Sam. Ben-Hadad I attacked Ijon, Dan, and many important cities of the tribe of Naphtali, and Baasha was forced to withdraw from Ramah. [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. His wife Had met him on the ridge until She died. his God, like the heart of his father David. Now behold, golden calf there. 179 and 351; IV Sibyl. 2. 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. When Abijah became king he continued the war and battles that his father fought with Jeroboam. 2); while the other great treasures were given by Asa to the king of Syria to obtain his alliance; then they were taken again by the Ammonites, to be recaptured by Jehoshaphat; then they fell into the hands of Sennacherib, from whom Hezekiah recovered them, and at the capture of Jerusalem they came into the hands of the Babylonians; then into those of the Persians, and afterward of the Macedonians, and finally of the Romans, who kept them at Rome (Pes. Although 23:26-28). He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. Rehoboam's failures 21-24. Under his reign the country of the Israelites enjoyed peace for ten years. In Rehoboam ruled 17 years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose for his own. There were also male cult prostitutes in the land. 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. [12] There Abijah rallied his troops with a phrase which has since become famous: "God Himself is with us for a Captain". good king. He married Alice Eaton on 1594579, (NOT the) daughter of Thomas Eaton and Isabel Baker. (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. of his father David. (1 Kings 15:3), b. 7Go and say to Jeroboam, This is what the Lord God of Israel says. Philistines captured the ark. 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. 37). Abijah waged war against the Northern kingdom, and just like his father Rehoboam, he did not follow the paths of righteousness ( 1 Kings 15 ). They did according to all 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. his own against them. your fathers, for you will not succeed. But Jeroboam had set an ambush to come yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! 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. When Rehoboam died, his son Abijam became king of Judah. the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways and his words are written in the Or, secondly, Many years after it, i.e. Ahijah the man who speaks for God is there. 5The Lord had said to Ahijah, The wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is sick. Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him. But the possible scenarios for the sins of Abijah: a. 9, compare xvi. He will tell you what shall . 13, in which there is a reference to "some good thing [found in him] toward the Lord God of Israel," is interpreted (M. . through the sons of David, being a great multitude and having with you the Then the men of 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. God had a sense of dj vu in the fact that both Abijah and his father Rehoboam 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. The resulting peace kept Judah free from Egyptian incursions until the time of Josiah, some centuries later. Exodus 32:28, d. Golden himself with a young bull and seven rams, even he may become a priest of what has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus We announce the death of Christopher Valerie, better known as Chris and Uncle Toto from the village of Cochrane who resided in River Estate, Canefield .He who died on the 23nd of March at the Dominica China Friendship Hospital. According to Edwin R. Thiele chronology,[1] when Asa became very ill, he made Jehoshaphat coregent. 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. were good kings in the first three years of their reigns but then turned bad. His eyes were weak because he was old. 9); Zedekiah by his eyes, and behold, "they put out the eyes of Zedekiah" (II Kings xxv. Jeroboam. He was the son of Rehoboam and . 18), Asa sinned grievously, for which Hanani, the seer, sternly rebuked him (II Chron. Contemporaries of King Abijah/Abijam. And the Lord struck him down and he died. king. the other side of the mountain; and David was hurrying to get away from Saul, During the later years of his reign, he had 14 wives, 22 sons and 16 daughters. He was the son of Rehoboam and the grandson of Solomon. examples of the Jews being killed off by God for their sinfulness. Some assert that he himself undertook a pilgrimage."[18]. hate, I reject your festivals, Nor do I delight in your solemn assemblies. 1 Kings 15:3 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. attacked Abijah and surrounded him. came near to all the people and said, How long will you hesitate between two 3 i Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. They did all the hated things of the nations which the Lord drove away before the people of Israel. a short reign of only three years, it causes one to wonder if there is a connection Rehoboam and Judah sin against the Lord, 1 Kings 4:21-24. What After this event, he returned and participated in a delegation sent to ask the new king Rehoboam to reduce taxes. 1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. 4. At Jeroboam's son becomes ill 2-4a. reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mothers name was Micaiah the According to the Hebrew Bible, Jeroboam was in "constant war with the house of Judah". Answer. [2][3][4] The Books of Chronicles refers to him as Abijah.[a][5]. For Asa, the Bible allows the narrowing of his accession to some time between Tishri 1 of 912 BC and the day before Nisan 1 of the 911 BCE. 4. Ahaz was 20 when he became king of Judah and reigned for 16 years. - Hezekiah. [2] John Gilbert is buried a little below the mouth of Little Creek. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. 23); that is, he was afflicted with gout. people, so that many people of Israel died." God, why have You forsaken me?" The Jewish Encyclopedia. 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