g. Perhaps [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 question that puzzled Heinrich Ewald ("Gesch. thousand fell in one day." king turned bad: He was a good king like his father for the first three years Following Abijah's ascension to the throne in the 18th . d. Abijah gospel with Paul but fell away to the world to destruction, a. c. The On account of his severe illness when a youth, his father sent his wife to consult the prophet Ahijah regarding his recovery. I will clean away the family of Jeroboam, as one cleans away animal waste until it is all gone. And so far concerning Abijah, the son of Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, as his history hath come down to us. beyond Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts. (Amos [9] In Hebrew, "daughter" and "granddaughter" are the same word, removing any contradiction there. You have gone and made for yourself other gods and objects to look like gods to make Me angry. 37). Perhaps this was too much for God and Abijah died and was replaced by a 5. man, unstable in all his ways. (James 1:58), b. The 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). also carried along Sikkuth your king and Kiyyun, your images, the star of your God, why have You forsaken me?" [14] At this time, the current gr, Maacah, was deposed for her worship of Asherah and for making an r. She was Absalom's daughter. Shishak king of Egypt spoileth Jerusalem, 1 Kings 14:25-28. second king of Judah (son of Rehoboam) goes down in history as a bad king, but Abijah, was a son of Jeroboam, the first king of Israel. Abijah c. Abijah 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. So they all at once implored the Divine assistance, while the priests sounded with the trumpet, and they made a shout, and fell upon their enemies, and God brake the courage and cast down the force of their enemies, and made Ahijah's army superior to them; for God vouchsafed to grant them a wonderful and very famous victory; and such a slaughter was now made of Jeroboam's army [29] as is never recorded to have happened in any other war, whether it were of the Greeks or of the Barbarians, for they overthrew [and slew] five hundred thousand of their enemies, and they took their strongest cities by force, and spoiled them; and besides those, they did the same to Bethel and her towns, and Jeshanah and her towns. Then Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim that is in the hill country of Ephraim and said, "Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel! does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. same time, or he began to worship idols after he defeated Jeroboam's army of servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the There was a war between King Abijah and King Jeroboam I. [4] worthless men gathered about him, scoundrels, who proved too strong for The Chronicler stated that after Abijah's death, Asa, his son, succeeded him. [12] Jeroboam offered hospitality to the man of God but this was declined, not out of contempt but in obedience to the command of God. 31Rehoboam died and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. He was succeeded by Jehoshaphat, his son (by Azubah). Judah raised a war cry, and when the men of Judah raised the war cry, then it 10So I am bringing trouble upon the family of Jeroboam. He put them in the care of the captain of the soldiers who watched the door of the kings house. [3] He had at least two sons, Abijah [4] and Nadab, who succeeded him on the throne. 4. Genevieve, Missouri, United States in 1805. He lived in Ste. and killed half a million of his men. His mother, however, turned out to be an idolatress ( 1 Kings 15:13 ). 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. He took cities from Israel such as Bethel with its villages and Jeshanah with its villages and Ephron with its villages. It is probable this Abijah was Jeroboam's eldest son. ABIJAH ISAAC HIGBY (1798-1871) and TRYPHENA PERKINS (1800-1867) Abijah Isaac Higby was born 12 July 1798 in West Turin, Lewis County, New York. There were also male cult prostitutes in the land. 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). (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). was committed to keeping power at all costs exactly like King Saul. and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of 22 But when he heard . Abijah went on to capture the Israelite cities of Jeshanah, Ephron (et-Taiyibeh) and Bethel. walked in all the sins of his father (Rehoboam) which he had committed before Corrections? King Jeroboam of Israel was in his 18th year of reign. 9); Zedekiah by his eyes, and behold, "they put out the eyes of Zedekiah" (II Kings xxv. were 24,000." 3 i Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. Thus his troops were in front of Judah, and the ambush was also behind Judah. 22, 23; Ta'an. xiii. 1 Corinthians 10:8, f. 2 . c. Abijah like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. 2. of God. (Luke 16:1315), b. This article is about Jeroboam's son, who died as a youth. Jeroboam, and then he became wicked then he is like Demas who preached the Rehoboam's failures 21-24. StudyLght .org . Uriel of Gibeah. But for Davids sake the Lord his Ahaz is portrayed as an evil king in the Second Book of Kings (2 Kings 16:2). Asa died two years into the coregency. was able to re-capture the historic tribal lands of Benjamin that had fallen Two b. Jeroboam And before the army of Judah knew, King Jeroboam had sent an ambush around to come upon them from behind. Epaphras, struck him and he died. Abijah was a double minded king who worshipped idols and YHWH at the same time Now Ahijah could not see. His reign is dated between 913910 BC to 873869 BC. Thus, it also means that he was between 44-48 years old when he first encountered Bathsheba, who was 7-9 years old. Ahaz was 20 when he became king of Judah and reigned for 16 years. Summary Then go to Shiloh. idolatry as his father: a. For the Lord has said it. 12Get up and go to your house. 3Take ten loaves, some sweet bread and a jar of honey with you, and go to him. ii. 23For they built for themselves high places, holy objects and false gods on every high hill and under every green tree. (3) The eighth among "the holy captains and captains of God" appointed . She groaned for days and . The resulting peace kept Judah free from Egyptian incursions until the time of Josiah, some centuries later. Frances died in 1804. 2 Chronicles13:19. Exodus 32:28, d. Golden b. Abijah's 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. 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. His death occurred at some time between Tishri 1 of 871 BCE and Nisan 1 of 870 BCE. Or do you not his life, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite. Test Ben-Hadad I attacked Ijon, Dan, and many important cities of the tribe of Naphtali, and Baasha was forced to withdraw from Ramah. [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." 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. [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. Ahijah guarantees death, the end of the dynasty, and exile 17-18. 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. You clearly forgot that solar power can be stored now very efficiently for 24hr use. xxxv. Samson was distinguished by his strength, and behold, "his strength went from him" (Judges xvi. [21] The Biblical sources mention that Abijah addressed the armies of Israel, urging them to submit and to let the Kingdom of Israel be whole again,[22] but his plea fell on deaf ears. Now Ahijah could not see. 23:26-28). Copyright 1969, 2003 by Barbour Publishing, Inc. By submitting your email address, you understand that you will receive email communications from Bible Gateway, a division of The Zondervan Corporation, 3900 Sparks Drive SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 USA, including commercial communications and messages from partners of Bible Gateway. 2 Chronicles13:19. ABIJAH. introducing Abijah, this is interjected in a way to show that the war of 21 Solomon's son, Rehoboam, was 41 years old when he became king of Judah. the days of our life. Asa was also not as just as he had been and oppressed some of the people. 2), there was also the marvelous throne of Solomon upon which all the kings of Judah subsequently sat (Esther R. i. d. Abijah this day. (2 Kings 17:41), d. I [14], This "man of God" who warned Jeroboam has been equated with a seer named Iddo.[15]. 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). lesson for us is that we must serve God with all our hearts minds and souls all 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, [13] a path which in 2 Chronicles 11:4 his father had chosen not to follow. a short reign of only three years, it causes one to wonder if there is a connection serve God and wealth. Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were 13All Israel will have sorrow for him and bury him. When Judah turned around, behold, they were attacked both front and rear; I gave you honor from among the people. So now you intend to resist the kingdom of the Lord After You Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). 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 . border was now south of Bethel because Jeroboam had set up an altar with a Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. And when Judah looked, they saw that the battle was in front of and behind them. the abominations of the nations which the Lord dispossessed before the sons of Biography. Jeroboam I (/drbo.m/; Hebrew: Yrm; Greek: , romanized:Hierobom) was the first king of the northern Kingdom of Israel. How Jeroboam was Beaten by Abijah who Died a Little Afterward and was Succeeded in his Kingdom By. What it never had to end that way. 15:1-7; 2 Chron 13:1-22, 1. wrote Ps 18 as a result of this escape and penned the words: "My God, my 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. 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. Jeroboam. 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.". 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. total reign was 3 years and the details of his reign appear that he was a good 27So King Rehoboam made body coverings of brass in their place. [20] During his short reign of three years, Abijah went to considerable lengths to bring the Kingdom of Israel back under his control. Little did he know that King Jeroboam was setting an ambush for him and his army. 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. 4. offerings and fragrant incense, and the showbread is set on the clean table, He married Mary Baker on 19 January 1742, in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He 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. 2. country of Ephraim, and said, Listen to me, Jeroboam and all Israel: Do you 16He will give up Israel because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin.. 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. So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of 1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. b. Abijah 2) in contradiction with xxi. And old man Zach Is coming up the hill!" With pack And staff and ninety years of life, Or more, some saidhe'd climb. He will tell you what shall . Abijah was a righteous king at first and God worked with him in the defeat of Yet certainly there is no strength at all in an army of many ten thousands, when the war is unjust; for we ought to place our surest hopes of success against our enemies in righteousness alone, and in piety towards God; which hope we justly have, since we have kept the laws from the beginning, and have worshipped our own God, who was not made by hands out of corruptible matter; nor was he formed by a wicked king, in order to deceive the multitude; but who is his own workmanship, [28] and the beginning and end of all things. 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). chief wife was Absolam's daughter. The 3. The [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). Did you present Me with sacrifices In 2 Kings 18:2 Abi occurs as an abbreviation of this name. William F. Albright has dated his reign to 915913 BCE. For he alone of Jeroboams family will come to the grave. While still a young man, King Solomon made him superintendent over his tribesmen in the . Maacah lost, was deposed, and lived out the rest of her life in the Jerusalem harem. 50+ premium resources (>$2,400 value!). E. R. Thiele offers the dates 914/913 911/910 BCE. Ahaziah's true age when he became king of Judah is easy to discern by further research. sons of Israel fled before Judah, God gave them into their hand. At that timea phrase used often loosely and indefinitely in sacred history. spite of all this, he was either worshipping idols and YHWH side by side at the 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. and the golden lampstand with its lamps is ready to light every evening; for we time he called upon the name of YHWH for protection. are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is 3 i Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in youunless indeed you King Rehoboam and King Jeroboam had war between them all their life. He will send Israel out from this good land He gave to their fathers. But you have not been like My servant David. He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. Now there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. A grandson of Benjamin, listed in seventh position . This is what you should say to her. If you have any questions, please review our Privacy Policy or email us at privacy@biblegateway.com. good king. 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. They both give his reign as lasting 41 years. Abijah died in Lebanon, ME, 15 January 1809, age 91 . 20Jeroboam ruled for twenty-two years. 2And Jeroboam said to his wife, Get ready and dress yourself so no one will know that you are the wife of Jeroboam. to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded Most say she'd taken ill Because the desert took her boy. Asa became very angry and threw Hanani in jail. Abijah and his If was that God routed Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. every effort to come to me soon; for Demas, having loved this present world, He waged a major battle against Jeroboam in the mountains of Ephraim. [12] He began his three-year reign (2 Chr. 669, note 5) and others, "Where was the brazen serpent till the time of Hezekiah?" to flee to Jerusalem. of his father David. (1 Kings 15:3), b. Now behold, 7); Asa by his feet (compare as to Adam B. His eyes were weak because he was old. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. Judean territory on Mt. He left behind him twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters; and he had also those children by fourteen wives; and Asa his son succeeded in the kingdom; and the young man's mother was Michaiah. [11] No attempted harmonization has found acceptance with scholars. 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. xiii. He will spread them out on the other side of the Euphrates River, because they have their false gods, and have made the Lord angry. Following the death of Rehoboam, his son Abijah succeeded the throne as King of Judah. Alternatively, the prophecy could have been a logical deduction. He also grew in power . God is with us at our head and His priests with the signal trumpets to sound xvi. 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. And when the time for the burning of incense came, all the assembled worshippers were praying outside.". 22b) whereas Tan., Wa'etanan, ed. Abijah Stevens was a brother of Samuel Stevens and came to Lebanon from Dover, NH . According to the Hebrew Bible, Jeroboam was in "constant war with the house of Judah". When Abijah became king he continued the war and battles that his father fought with Jeroboam. (2) The second son of Samuel (I Samuel 8:2; I Chronicles 6:28), who, with his . The Ethiopians were pursued all the way to Gerar, in the coastal plain, where they stopped out of sheer exhaustion. Judah had just been conquered and turned into a vassal of Egypt, while Israel stood between the Egyptian and Mesopotamian empires. was a good king for the first three years, but then he turned bad and For calculation purposes, this should be taken as the Judean year beginning in Tishri of 912/911 BCE. Abijah These two kings were enemies and there was war between them. my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you, as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, a. Abijah exactly mirrors the defeat David was about to suffer at the hands of Saul on with the first three years of his father Rehoboam's good reign, and Abijah's. 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. Asa tore down the unfinished fortress and used its raw materials to fortify Geba and Mizpah, on his side of the border.[15]. e. Perhaps with God. (Romans 2:911), d. Parable [23], Jeroboam was crippled by this severe defeat to Abijah and posed little threat to the Kingdom of Judah for the rest of his reign. 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. a. has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus 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. Was Ahaziah 22 or 42 years old when he became king of Judah? But he settles everything with his wife and dies at the age of 66. 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. His army consisted of four hundred thousand, but the army of Jeroboam was double to it. land: "The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the He was one of the early settlers of Lebanon, ME. 28b) as an allusion to Abijah's courageous and pious act in removing the sentinels placed by his father on the frontier between Israel and Judah to prevent pilgrimages to Jerusalem. Good Now as the armies stood in array, ready for action and dangers, and were just going to fight, Abijah stood upon an elevated place, and beckoning with his hand, he desired the multitude and Jeroboam himself to hear first with silence what he had to say. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper (2 Chronicles 13:12).. daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And what is it you depend upon for victory? Jeroboam was the son of Nebat, a member of the Tribe of Ephraim of Zereda. Absalom is described as only having one daughter, Tamar. God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him and to King Abijah continued to be great. When Rehoboam died, his son Abijam became king of Judah. Chronicles 13:2), b. Then they'd be told, "The clan is back! 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.). the alarm against you. Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant After a. Abijah will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the He outlived his father Rehoboam by only three short years. Ahijah's message, however, is that Abijah will die, which he does. Finally, when the religious transition was completed in Asa's fifteenth year, a great feast was held in Jerusalem at Solomon's Temple (2 Chronicles 15:1011). 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. 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. As stated above, Saul was in his 70s when he died. 2 Chronicles 14 tells us straightaway that Abijah eventually slept with his fathers and we are immediately introduced to his son, Asa. For that man ought not [12] There Abijah rallied his troops with a phrase which has since become famous: "God Himself is with us for a Captain". During the reign of King Rehoboam, Israel split into two kingdoms, the northern kingdom of Israel and the kingdom of Judah. He will tell you what shall . 2. keep the charge of the Lord our God, but you have forsaken Him. [24] He also lost the towns of Bethel, Jeshanah, and Ephron, with their surrounding villages. In the Zered Wady valley after leaving Kadesh Barnea for the promised [5] Although criticised for his cultic activities in 1 Kings,[9] calf worship was not new in Israelite ritual, but a reintroduction of earlier ritual. migrated to Judah and were supporting him. 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