Uriel of Gibeah. Jeroboam did not again recover strength in the days of Abijah; and the Lord He even took all the body coverings of gold which Solomon had made. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, h who said of me that I should be king over this people. 2 Chronicles 14 tells us straightaway that Abijah eventually slept with his fathers and we are immediately introduced to his son, Asa. Frances died in 1804. e. Abijah We are made to understand that Abijah was a wicked King throughout his reign. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. and the sons of Aaron are ministering to the Lord as priests, and the Levites One battle, in particular, took place between the two kings is found in 2 Chronicles 13. . 3. lesson for us is that we must serve God with all our hearts minds and souls all and Seder 'Olam R. Ahijah Denounces God's Judgments against Jeroboam. King Rehoboam and King Jeroboam had war between them all their life. "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. were good kings in the first three years of their reigns but then turned bad. Zechariah is old and (at first) childless. His eyes were weak because he was old. 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. xiii. 4. 2 Chronicles13:19. 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. Abijah Livermore BIRTH 12 Dec 1737, Weston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA DEATH 18 Jan 1817 (aged 79), Spencer, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA BURIAL Old Spencer Cemetery, Spencer, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA, MEMORIAL ID 170962849 Per Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots So now you intend to resist the kingdom of the Lord b. Jeroboam 13All Israel will have sorrow for him and bury him. Abijah - We see by this name that Jeroboam did not intend to desert the worship of Yahweh, since its signification is "Yahweh is my father," or "Yahweh is my desire" Job 34:36. 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. The resulting peace kept Judah free from Egyptian incursions until the time of Josiah, some centuries later. 7) (Tosef., Soah, xii. Calf at Sinai: "So the sons of Levi did as Moses instructed, and about went bad just like his father. 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. 22b) whereas Tan., Wa'etanan, ed. Philistines captured the ark. God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to 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. The They made Him jealous with their sins, more than all their fathers had done. Abijah Stevens was a brother of Samuel Stevens and came to Lebanon from Dover, NH . In Thiele's chronology, Asa made his son Jehoshaphat coregent in the year that saw the onset of his disease. 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. We What Elijah 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. Kadesh Barnea: "But those who died by the plague were 14,700, besides They did all the hated things of the nations which the Lord drove away before the people of Israel. 145).[15]. As stated above, Saul was in his 70s when he died. c. This Whoever comes to consecrate "routed" by God through the army of Abijah. Numbers 21:6. g. 120,070 And He said to them, King Abijah, also called King Abiah or King Abijam, was the son of King Rehoboam and father of King Asa. Judean territory on Mt. Kingdom Period: Israel: 931-723 BC; Judah: 931-587 BC, The good king who turned to the dark side. For less than $5/mo. Now the rest of the acts of recaptured Bethel and Ephron, which were historically part of the tribe of BOUNDARY CHANGES, MOVES & LOST RECORDS. 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 . then he was like the man Jesus warned about who loved the world and God at the You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your [12] Jeroboam surrounded Abijah's army, engaging in the Battle of Mount Zemaraim. And when the time for the burning of incense came, all the assembled worshippers were praying outside.". [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. He defeated King Jeroboam in battle. You have gone and made for yourself other gods and objects to look like gods to make Me angry. 3 i Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. 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. we do know for certain, is that Abijah was guilty of exactly the same sins of e. Perhaps And old man Zach Is coming up the hill!" With pack And staff and ninety years of life, Or more, some saidhe'd climb. many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they 5The Lord had said to Ahijah, The wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is sick. is no specific details given for the sins of Abijah, just a reference back to 1 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. 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). 1Ki 14:1-20. Cross-synchronizations between the two kingdoms therefore often allow narrowing of the beginning and/or ending dates of a king to within a six-month range. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. 669, note 5) and others, "Where was the brazen serpent till the time of Hezekiah?" [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. Was 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. concluded that fighting against him was like fighting against God. He leaves to mourn His wife: Doreen Valerie His sons: Jeffery and Ivor Valerie who resides in Have you not driven out his own against them. Thus it is stated that he mutilated the corpses of Jeroboam's soldiers, and even would not permit them to be interred until they had arrived at a state of putrefaction. And as she rode home in heartbreak, her son Abijah died. Birth and Marriage And the Lord struck him down and he died. Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. Abijah then rallied his own troops with a phrase which has since become famous: "God is with us as our leader". Abijam was the king in Jerusalem for 3 years. Abijah exactly mirrors the defeat David was about to suffer at the hands of Saul on 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. Rehoboam's failures 21-24. will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the c. The Jeroboam reigned for 22 years. Absalom is described as only having one daughter, Tamar. came to the border area between Israel and Judah and stood on a mountain in We'll start with the Scripture passage in which Abishag is brought to David: "When King David was very old, he could not keep warm even when they put covers over him. His death occurred at some time between Tishri 1 of 871 BCE and Nisan 1 of 870 BCE. Or is it the exceeding multitude of your army which gives you such good hopes? The possible scenarios for the sins of Abijah: a. His mother's name was Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri. viii. In 2 Kings 18:2 Abi occurs as an abbreviation of this name. B. 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). 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. their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly During the reign of King Rehoboam, Israel split into two kingdoms, the northern kingdom of Israel and the kingdom of Judah. and the golden lampstand with its lamps is ready to light every evening; for we [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. the mountain. des Volkes Israel," iii. The Chronicler stated that after Abijah's death, Asa, his son, succeeded him. country of Ephraim, and said, Listen to me, Jeroboam and all Israel: Do you 24In their religion there were men in the land who sold the use of their bodies. Thanks. 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. 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. When she arrived, his message for her was not one of hope but of judgment and of recompense for her husband's sins. Yet did not Jeroboam lay any of these things to heart, but he brought together a very numerous army, and made a warlike expedition against Abijah, the son of Rehoboam, who had succeeded his father in the kingdom of the two tribes; for he despised him because of his age. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. His mother,[a] named Zeruah ( "leprous") was a widow. For calculation purposes, this should be taken as the Judean year beginning in Tishri of 912/911 BCE. 7Go and say to Jeroboam, This is what the Lord God of Israel says. whilst Jeroboam persisted in his former course; for this phrase is oft used indefinitely, and without respect to the time last mentioned before it, as Daniel 12:1 Matthew 4:1. In the Septuagint he is called Hieroboam ().[2]. - Hezekiah. 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. In his speech, he condemned King Jeroboam and his kingdom for rebelling against the house of David, and for their idolatrous sins of worshipping the golden calves, and for rejecting the priests of God and the Levites, and he also confessed his faith in the Lord, saying, 12 And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. Hours later, Barkley, who was. [18] Baasha built the fortress of Ramah on the border, less than ten miles from Jerusalem. According to the Hebrew Bible, Jeroboam was in "constant war with the house of Judah". Abijah died in Lebanon, ME, 15 January 1809, age 91 . [10] Abijah married fourteen wives, and had 22 sons and 16 daughters. of the Kings of Judah? a. Abijah Then he died and was buried with his ancestors. Every morning and evening they burn to the Lord burnt You may unsubscribe from Bible Gateways emails at any time. Rehoboam ruled 17 years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose for his own. He outlived his father Rehoboam by only three short years. Barbara states that she married Abijah Snow in Jasper, Arkansas under the name Barbara Casey. 22 But when he heard . while these nations feared the Lord, they also served their idols; their 2 Abijah ruled in Jerusalem for three years. On account of his severe illness when a youth, his father sent his wife to consult the prophet Ahijah regarding his recovery. Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, when he was young and timid and could not hold spite of all this, he was either worshipping idols and YHWH side by side at the are no gods. it never had to end that way. Abijah was a double minded king who worshipped idols and YHWH at the same time His mothers name was Maacah, also called Michaiah. over Judah. For they also built for themselves high places and 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.". beyond Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts. (Amos to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded New Life Version (NLV). 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. Bethel was given as a tribal inheritance to Benjamin, It was captured by 31Rehoboam died and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. I will clean away the family of Jeroboam, as one cleans away animal waste until it is all gone. Ahijah guarantees death, the end of the dynasty, and exile 17-18. Jeroboam I (/drbo.m/; Hebrew: Yrm; Greek: , romanized:Hierobom) was the first king of the northern Kingdom of Israel. worshipped idols. were 24,000." from the rear, so that Israel was in front of Judah and the ambush was behind Among the treasures which Asa took from Zerah the Ethiopian, and which Zerah had taken from Shishak (II Chron. Jeroboam keep the charge of the Lord our God, but you have forsaken Him. 7) exemptsto march along (Soah 10a). David to this day. (1 Kings 12:18-19). Therefore, I will make you go into exile xiii. Judah had just been conquered and turned into a vassal of Egypt, while Israel stood between the Egyptian and Mesopotamian empires. Israel. (1 Kings 14:2224). xxxi. 5 The Lord had said to Ahijah, "The wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is sick. It cannot be forgotten that Aang was frozen in the ice for more than 100 years. He waged a major battle against Jeroboam in the mountains of Ephraim. was able to re-capture the historic tribal lands of Benjamin that had fallen 26He took away the riches of the Lords house and the riches of the kings house. 58a; Tan., Aare Mot, ed. Calf at Sinai: "Then the Lord smote the people, because of what they did You have put Me behind your back. him; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, like the heart 2. gods which you made for yourselves. Jeroboam was the son of Nebat, a member of the Tribe of Ephraim of Zereda. Omissions? we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be The last years of King Abijah' s brief reign were peaceful. [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. His family was eventually wiped out. And the birds of the air will eat anyone who dies in the field. 15For the Lord will punish Israel, as a piece of grass is shaken in the water. He was 60 years old. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper (2 Chronicles 13:12).. land: "The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the 10So I am bringing trouble upon the family of Jeroboam. Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill [16] Thus the unconditional covenant blessing of YHWH guaranteed his promise to King David, to stabilize the Kingdom of David despite its ruler. 2 . And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and spoke loudly to King Jeroboam. He reigned I will kill every male from Jeroboam, both owned and free in Israel. He 26 (Tosef., Soah, xii. Steve Rudd: Contact the author for people did not answer him a word. (1 Kings 18:21), c. So my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you, as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Dcn. Elder John Abijah "Bige" Gilbert, Sr was born in March of 1757 and died in March of 1868. This article is about Jeroboam's son, who died as a youth. a. Rehoboam When Asa died, to express that he was a good king, the Chronicler declared that he was buried with honors (2 Chr 16:14). Under his reign the country of the Israelites enjoyed peace for ten years. thousand fell in one day." Jeroboam sends his wife to Ahijah the prophet 4b-16. As his mother crossed the threshold of the door on her return, the youth died, and "all Israel mourned for him". 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.). hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men is detestable in the sight 1 Kings 15:3 says, " 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 ." He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mothers name was Thus the sons of Israel were subdued at that time, and the 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. 18:50. His son dieth, and is buried; and he likewise: Nadab his son succeedeth, 1 Kings 14:17-20. 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. [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. The Ethiopians were pursued all the way to Gerar, in the coastal plain, where they stopped out of sheer exhaustion. She was the daughter of Philip and Sarah (Child) Dore. 20Jeroboam ruled for twenty-two years. (Asa). They did according to all 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. 6. pointed out that the true kingship belonged to the house of David, not One of the alleged contradictions is that Maacah is sometimes described as the daughter of Absalom, and elsewhere the daughter of Uriel. [16] The Bible does not state whether Zerah was a pharaoh or a general of the army. 22Judah did what was sinful in the eyes of the Lord. Ahaziah's true age when he became king of Judah is easy to discern by further research. [10][11] Similarly, Maacah is initially described as Abijah's mother, but subsequently described as the mother of his son Asa. 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. At the entreaty of the man of God, his hand was restored to him again, but the miracle made no abiding impression on him. [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. c. Abijah His wife Had met him on the ridge until She died. 23:26-28). 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