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- Abijah or Abijam (my father is Jehovah). Son and successor of Rehoboam on the throne of Judah. (1 Kings 4:21 ; 2 Chronicles 12:16) He is called ABIJAH in Chronicles, ABIJAM in Kings.
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Abijah. 1. Called, in Luke 1:5, Abia; founder of a family among the posterity of Aaron. When David divided the priests into twenty-four courses, to perform the temple-service, in turn, the eighth class was called after him, 1 Chronicles 24:10. To this class of course Zacharias belonged. 2. Son of Jeroboam, the first king of Israel.
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.
The son of Rehoboam, whom he succeeded on the throne of Judah (1 Chronicles 3:10). He is also called Abijam ( 1 Kings 14:31 ; 15:1-8 ). He began his three years' reign ( 2 Chronicles 12:16 ; 13:1, 2 ) with a strenuous but unsuccessful effort to bring back the ten tribes to their allegiance.
Abijah, King of Judah: Abijah (also known as Abijam in some translations) was the son of King Rehoboam and reigned for three years in Jerusalem (1 Kings 15:1-8). His reign, although brief, is significant as it reflects the ongoing struggles between the Kingdom of Judah and the Kingdom of Israel.
Also Abijam. 1 The son of Becher, grandson of Benjamin (1Chr 7:8). 2 The son of Samuel, who served as judge in Beer-sheba (1Sam 8:2). 3 The son of Rehoboam, king of Judah (911–908 BCE), during whose reign the border wars between Judah and Israel continued unabated (1Kgs 15:7). 4 The son of Jeroboam, son of Nebat, who failed to recover from a ...
Abijah Or Abijam. (my father is Jehovah). + Son and successor of Rehoboam on the throne of Judah. (1 Kings 4:21; 2 Chronicles 12:16) He is called Abia , Abiah, Or Abijah in Chronicles, Abijam in Kings. He began to reign B.C. 959, and reigned three years.
The mother of Hezekiah, king of Judah, is called Abi (2 Kings 18:2), an abbreviation for Abijah (2 Chron 29:1). 8. One of the priests in the days of Nehemiah who sealed the covenant of reform in which the people promised to serve the Lord ( Neh 10:7 ).
