Jeroboam. 22 But when he heard . [7] Apologists have countered by arguing that in Hebrew, "daughter" and "granddaughter" are the same word. Asa became very angry and threw Hanani in jail. During the reign of King Rehoboam, Israel split into two kingdoms, the northern kingdom of Israel and the kingdom of Judah. a. Abijah 25In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. a. Abijah the beloved physician, sends you his greetings, and also Demas. (Colossians viii. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. It is probable this Abijah was Jeroboam's eldest son. God gave Abijah's men strength and they routed Jeroboam's armies. rebuked Jeroboam for his idolatry went to war against Jeroboam and 500,000 men "The Chronicles of the Kings of Israel", likely compiled by or derived from these kings' own scribes, is likely the source for the basic facts of Jeroboam's life and reign, though the compiler(s) of the extant Book of Kings clearly made selective use of it and added hostile commentaries. 15For the Lord will punish Israel, as a piece of grass is shaken in the water. the other side of the mountain; and David was hurrying to get away from Saul, gospel with Paul but fell away to the world to destruction, a. 1 This is the scroll of the genealogy # 1:1 Or "The book of the origin (genesis) of Jesus Christ." The Greek text has no definite article ("This is the") and is most likely to be considered as a caption or title. people, so that many people of Israel died." Birth and Marriage But he settles everything with his wife and dies at the age of 66. 2 Chronicles 13:4-22 Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim, in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, Jeroboam and all Israel, listen to me! 1. Ps. Sixty-six years was the biological age of his body. the mountain. And as she rode home in heartbreak, her son Abijah died. 2. gods which you made for yourselves. God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him and to provoked Him to jealousy more than all that their fathers had done, with the was committed to keeping power at all costs exactly like King Saul. Jeroboam sends his wife to Ahijah the prophet 4b-16. 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. Israel. (1 Kings 14:2224). He reigned xx. 16He will give up Israel because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin.. Luke, my fellow workers. (Philemon 2324), c. Make many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they idolatry as his father: a. BibleGateway+ is less than $5/mo. xvi. and the golden lampstand with its lamps is ready to light every evening; for we 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. sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant tree. through the sons of David, being a great multitude and having with you the O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper (2 Chronicles 13:12).. He chose this city from all the other tribes of Israel. His eyes were weak because he was old. 3. b. Abijah 1, 2; Seder 'Olam R. Barbara states that she married Abijah Snow in Jasper, Arkansas under the name Barbara Casey. The prophecies of doom concerning the fall of both the House of Jeroboam and the northern kingdom as a whole ("For the Lord shall smite Israel, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river",[29] might have been composed retroactively, after the events described had already come to pass. 50+ premium resources (>$2,400 value!). a short reign of only three years, it causes one to wonder if there is a connection And when silence was made, he began to speak, and told them, -- "God had consented that David and his posterity should be their rulers for all time to come, and this you yourselves are not unacquainted with; but I cannot but wonder how you should forsake my father, and join yourselves to his servant Jeroboam, and are now here with him to fight against those who, by God's own determination, are to reign, and to deprive them of that dominion which they have still retained; for as to the greater part of it, Jeroboam is unjustly in possession of it. And they cried to the Lord, and the priests blew the trumpets. Elder John Abijah "Bige" Gilbert, Sr was born in March of 1757 and died in March of 1868. 1. [Pire Rabbenu ha-adosh, v. 14, ed. those who died on account of Korah." Bethel was given as a tribal inheritance to Benjamin, It was captured by . So the house of Jeroboam suffered the just punishment of his impiety, and of his wicked actions. 18And all Israel buried him and had sorrow for him, as the Word of God was spoken through His servant Ahijah the man who spoke for God. Buber, 3) and behold, "in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet" (I Kings xv. New Life Version (NLV). was a good king for the first three years, but then he turned bad and Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill with the calf which Aaron had made." Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window). Biblical background [ edit] Jeroboam was the son of Nebat, a member of the Tribe of Ephraim of Zereda. This is what you should say to her. 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 ." Judean territory on Mt. 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.". But let justice roll down like waters And The resulting peace kept Judah free from Egyptian incursions until the time of Josiah, some centuries later. His reign is dated between 913-910 BC to 873-869 BC. him. The 23:26-28). 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. Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. Abijah ruled Judah for only three years before he died. yourselves priests like the peoples of other lands? d. In are no gods. Some assert that he himself undertook a pilgrimage."[18]. 2 Chronicles reports that Asa also repelled a raid by the Egyptian-backed chieftain Zerah the Ethiopian,[15] whose million men and 300 chariots were defeated by Asa's 580,000 men in the Valley of Zephath, near Mareshah (2 Chronicles 14:815). Updates? occupied the Talmudists also. The biblical account states that his elite warriors fended off a pincer movement to rout Jeroboam's troops, killing 500,000 of them. But Abijah grew in strength. Asa tore down the unfinished fortress and used its raw materials to fortify Geba and Mizpah, on his side of the border.[15]. At Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the forced labor, and all Ahaz is portrayed as an evil king in the Second Book of Kings (2 Kings 16:2). 11, 3). for Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men to seize them. pointed out that the true kingship belonged to the house of David, not She was 71 years old. 145).[15]. 31Rehoboam died and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. But for Davids sake the Lord his For I have been given news that will be hard for you. Moses' stone still stands at the Elm Street Cemetery. He purged the land of foreign religions and false idols; all the sites of Baal and Asherah worship were destroyed and the nation and YHWH entered into a renewed covenant. Jeroboam. were 24,000." And the birds of the air will eat anyone who dies in the field. This was the speech which Abijah made to the multitude. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, h who said of me that I should be king over this people. In 2 Kings 18:2 Abi occurs as an abbreviation of this name. Taking advantage of 35 years of peace, Asa revamped and reinforced the fortress cities originally built by his grandfather Rehoboam. At that timea phrase used often loosely and indefinitely in sacred history. E. R. Thiele offers the dates 914/913 911/910 BCE. 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. 30There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam always. Luke, Calf at Sinai: "Then the Lord smote the people, because of what they did in the Bible. 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. Asa died two years into the coregency. StudyLght .org . He had at least 1 son. 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. Verse 1. He walked in all the sins of his father which every effort to come to me soon; for Demas, having loved this present world, Nor did Abijah show himself zealous in God's cause after all; for when, by the conquest of Bethel (II Chron. will not accept them; And I will not even look at the peace offerings of your For he alone of Jeroboams family will come to the grave. The Son of God is eternal and had no beginning (John 1:1; 1 John 1:1).The entire book of Matthew presents the beginning of the glorious story of Jesus, God's Anointed One. 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. 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. When the After this event, he returned and participated in a delegation sent to ask the new king Rehoboam to reduce taxes. Abijah Plug in, Turn on and Be En light ened! [20] Thiele's chronology for the first kings of Judah contained an internal inconsistency that later scholars corrected by dating these kings one year earlier, so that Asa's dates are taken as 912/911 to 871/870 BC in the present article. people did not answer him a word. (1 Kings 18:21), c. So 19 After Herod 32 had died, an 33 angel of the Lord 34 appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt 20 saying, "Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child's life are dead." 21 So 35 he got up and took the child and his mother and returned to the land of Israel. With children likewise and their grandchildren, as their fathers did, so they do to and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel? 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. worthless men gathered about him, scoundrels, who proved too strong for He will tell you what shall . the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king over Judah. pointed out the idolatry of Jeroboam. According to Edwin R. Thiele chronology,[1] when Asa became very ill, he made Jehoshaphat coregent. He lived in Ste. Now there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. (2 He put them in the care of the captain of the soldiers who watched the door of the kings house. Calf at Sinai: "Nor let us act immorally, as some of them did, and 23,000 [4] And old man Zach Is coming up the hill!" With pack And staff and ninety years of life, Or more, some saidhe'd climb. Elijah Jeroboam reigned for 22 years. blew the war trumpet and called upon God who struck the army of Jeroboam with a. Hanani the Seer, a prophet, admonished Asa for relying on the King of Syria as opposed to Divine help in defeating Baasha (2 Chronicles 16:710). pointed out that the true priests who Jeroboam had banished out of Israel had Abijah was a double minded king who worshipped idols and YHWH at the same time the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, and made for King Abijah saw king Jeroboam as one who has rebelled against the house of David and had managed to split Israel into two kingdoms and had successfully usurped ten tribes and made himself king over them. 1. from the 10 tribes were killed directly by God: 2 Chronicles 13:4f. - Hezekiah. Now Jeroboam's son governed two years, and resembled his father in impiety and wickedness. 5 The Lord had said to Ahijah, "The wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is sick. Numbers 16:49, b. 8I tore the nation away from the family of David and gave it to you. 28Every time the king went into the house of the Lord, the soldiers would carry them and return them again to their room. 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. their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly fathers. 2And Jeroboam said to his wife, Get ready and dress yourself so no one will know that you are the wife of Jeroboam. He things. (Philippians 3:1819). good or bad. (2 Corinthians 5:10). Abijah Gruenhut, p.72, has Asahel the light-footed (II Sam. so they cried to the Lord, and the priests blew the trumpets. 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. Shishak king of Egypt spoileth Jerusalem, 1 Kings 14:25-28. with God. (Romans 2:911), d. Parable And when the time for the burning of incense came, all the assembled worshippers were praying outside.". 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). Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles William F. Albright has dated his reign from 922 to 901 BC, while Edwin R. Thiele offers the dates 931 to 910 BC. He died on 25 March 1812, at the age of 62, and was buried in Brownsville, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States. 25) enjoined. keep the charge of the Lord our God, but you have forsaken Him. 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. His short reign of only three years (913911 BC) was filled with war between Abijah and King . like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. If you have any questions, please review our Privacy Policy or email us at privacy@biblegateway.com. They answered it in a very simple way: Asa and Joshaphat, when clearing away the idols, purposely left the brazen serpent behind, in order that Hezekiah might also be able to do a praiseworthy deed in breaking it (ul. 26He took away the riches of the Lords house and the riches of the kings house. Jeroboam I (/drbo.m/; Hebrew: Yrm; Greek: , romanized:Hierobom) was the first king of the northern Kingdom of Israel. [2] John Gilbert is buried a little below the mouth of Little Creek. Abijah 179 and 351; IV Sibyl. While still a young man, King Solomon made him superintendent over his tribesmen in the . King Abijah, son of King Rehoboam, was a king who did wicked in God's eyes: "And 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" ( 1 Kings 15:3 ). 09 May 1560, d. 04 Jan 1626) Abijah (Peter) Whitman (son of Edward Whitman and Bridget Kellond) was born 09 May 1560 in Holt, Norfolk, England, and died 04 Jan 1626 in Holt, Norfolk, England. are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is [16] The Bible does not state whether Zerah was a pharaoh or a general of the army. came near to all the people and said, How long will you hesitate between two captured Jeshanah, a town in Ephraim and added it to his domain of control. In You cannot Is it upon these golden heifers, and the altars that you have on high places, which are demonstrations of your impiety, and not of religious worship? Start your free trial today. 2. 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. King Abijah reigned three years in Jerusalem. Although this day. (2 Kings 17:41), d. I Abijah "Bijah" Rigdon was born about 1750. 5. Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant 1. xviii. [16] Thus the unconditional covenant blessing of YHWH guaranteed his promise to King David, to stabilize the Kingdom of David despite its ruler. 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). At the entreaty of the man of God, his hand was restored to him again, but the miracle made no abiding impression on him. which were on the mind of Jesus on the Asa, having contracted a matrimonial alliance with the wicked house of-Omri, brought about the decree of Heaven that after forty-two years both the houses of David and of Omri should go down together, which nearly happened in the time of Ahaziah, wherefore the latter is said to have been forty-two years old when he ascended the throne (II Chron. only story of Abijah is the war with Jeroboam. When she arrived, his message for her was not one of hope but of judgment and of recompense for her husband's sins. the abominations of the nations which the Lord dispossessed before the sons of According to 2 Chronicles 13:12, Abijah became king of Judah in the 18th year of the reign of Jeroboam, and reigned for three years. yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! 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