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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." viii. 11, § 3).
Jan 4, 2022 · Abijah reigned for only three years (913–911 BC) in Judah before he died. 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 David his forefather had been” (1 Kings 15:3).
The Death of Jeroboam’s Son Abijah - At that time Jeroboam’s son Abijah became sick. And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Get ready and dress yourself so no one will know that you are the wife of Jeroboam. ...
Abijah fell sick, by the stroke of God, to punish Jeroboam’s rebellion against God.
Nevertheless the prophet knew her even before she entered his house and he declared that Abijah would die as soon as she arrived home. He was the only one of the house of Jeroboam to receive a decent burial.
And the Lord struck him down, and he died. But Abijah grew mighty. And he took fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters" (2 Chronicles 13:20–21)." After Abijah died, Judah and Israel experienced a season of peace for ten years (2 Chronicles 14:1).
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 all the house of Jeroboam there was found "some good thing toward the Lord", he only would come to his grave in peace.
