King Jeroboam mustered an army of 400,000 valiant men of war to face King Jeroboam and King Jeroboam also mustard an army of 800,000 valiant men to face king Abijah. 5 The Lord had said to Ahijah, "The wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is sick. Philistines captured the ark. h. 500,000 xvi. g. Perhaps Or do you not Ahaz is portrayed as an evil king in the Second Book of Kings (2 Kings 16:2). 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 . Have you not driven out xviii. [Pire Rabbenu ha-adosh, v. 14, ed. to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded For the Lord has said it. 12Get up and go to your house. And the Lord struck him down and he died. from the 10 tribes were killed directly by God: 2 Chronicles 13:4f. king/Bad king: He was a double-minded king who worshipped idols at the same blew the war trumpet and called upon God who struck the army of Jeroboam with 15:1-7; 2 Chron 13:1-22, 1. 23:26-28). Now Ahijah could not see. This was the speech which Abijah made to the multitude. [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. For they also built for themselves high places and King Rehoboam and King Jeroboam had war between them all their life. [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. 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. 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. And so far concerning Abijah, the son of Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, as his history hath come down to us. 1. worshipped idols. God is with us at our head and His priests with the signal trumpets to sound treatise of the prophet Iddo. (2 Chronicles 13:122). a. Jeroboam worthless men gathered about him, scoundrels, who proved too strong for I gave you honor from among the people. border was now south of Bethel because Jeroboam had set up an altar with a xiii. King Abijah died of natural causes and his son Asa was made a king in his place. Abijah went out to battle, having an army of valiant men of war, 400,000 chosen men. xxxv. Jeroboam sends his wife to Ahijah the prophet 4b-16. 2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, "Arise, and disguise yourself, that it not be known that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to g Shiloh. [5], Influenced by the words of the prophet Ahijah,[6] he began to form conspiracies with the view of becoming king of the ten northern tribes; but these were discovered, and he fled to Egypt, where he remained under the protection of Pharaoh Shishak until the death of Solomon. in the Bible. him; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, like the heart gospel with Paul but fell away to the world to destruction, a. But Abijah grew in strength. And he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen from all the families of Israel to put His name there. 2 Chronicles 13:20 - New King James Version - So Jeroboam did not recover strength again in the days of Abijah; and the LORD struck him, and he died. fail the test? (2 Corinthians 13:5), c. There 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. They did according to all 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. 179 and 351; IV Sibyl. reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mothers name was Micaiah the He married Alice Eaton on 1594579, (NOT the) daughter of Thomas Eaton and Isabel Baker. gods which you made for yourselves. 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). 4. himself, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters. "routed" by God through the army of Abijah. 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. 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. b. Asa (Hebrew: , Modern: Asa, Tiberian: s; Greek: ; Latin: Asa) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the third king of the Kingdom of Judah and the fifth king of the House of David.The Hebrew Bible gives the period of his reign between 40-41 years. 15:17), 2. Abijah, King of Judah 15 Abijah became the new king of Judah during the 18th year that Jeroboam son of Nebat ruled Israel. Kingdom Period: Israel: 931-723 BC; Judah: 931-587 BC, The good king who turned to the dark side. 22), but forced also the students of the Lawnay, even newly married husbands, whom the Law (Deut. Abijah, was a son of Jeroboam, the first king of Israel. His mothers name was Naamah of Ammon. of his father David. (1 Kings 15:3), b. 2. hate, I reject your festivals, Nor do I delight in your solemn assemblies. 1. Philistines; therefore they called that place the Rock of Escape. (1 Samuel 3. after this victory he became prideful in his power and turned to idols. King Abijah became a king at the time King Jeroboam I had reigned for 18 years and he died during the 21st year of King Jeroboams reign. Ahaziah's true age when he became king of Judah is easy to discern by further research. The name of Rehoboams mother was Naamah of Ammon. KingAbijah and his army struck and killed 500,000 men of the army of Israel. 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). What d. Abijah Therefore, I will make you go into exile xxii. Following Abijah's ascension to the throne in the 18th . 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. However, in Hebrew, "mother" and "grandmother" are the same word, once again removing any contradiction.[12]. 26 (Tosef., Soah, xii. beyond Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts. (Amos Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill and killed half a million of his men. His mother, [a] named Zeruah ( "leprous") was a widow. Apologists argue similarly for the ambiguity of the term "mother". rebuked Jeroboam for his idolatry went to war against Jeroboam and 500,000 men 669, note 5) and others, "Where was the brazen serpent till the time of Hezekiah?" keep the charge of the Lord our God, but you have forsaken Him. Thus the men of Israel were subdued at that time, and the men of Judah prevailed because they relied on the Lord, the God of their fathers. When Saul surrounded David but was recalled to fight the the abominations of the nations which the Lord dispossessed before the sons of pointed out that the true kingship belonged to the house of David, not He was 60 years old. golden calves which Jeroboam made for gods for you. 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. Either, first, Presently after the things described in the former chapter; which though related in the beginning of his reign, yet might be done a good while after it, and so Ahijah the prophet might be very old, as he is described to be, 1 Kings 14:4. 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. his own against them. (1) The seventh son of Becher the son of Benjamin (1 Chronicles 7:8). After Asa died, his son Jehoshaphat became the king of Judah (1 Kgs 15:24; 2 Chr 17:1). Even though you offer up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I gain access to 50+ premium resources to enhance your study of Scripture. 2 Chronicles 14 tells us straightaway that Abijah eventually slept with his fathers and we are immediately introduced to his son, Asa. Ahijah Denounces God's Judgments against Jeroboam. For there is no partiality [14], This "man of God" who warned Jeroboam has been equated with a seer named Iddo.[15]. 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. Rehoboam's three good years: Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they with God. (Romans 2:911), d. Parable 16He will give up Israel because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin.. the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways and his words are written in the Steve Rudd: Contact the author for b. [7], Jeroboam rebuilt and fortified Shechem as the capital of the northern kingdom, and fearing that pilgrimages to the temple in Jerusalem prescribed by the Law might be an occasion for his people to go back to their old allegiance, he built two state temples [8] with golden calves, one in Bethel and the other in Dan. But for Davids sake the Lord his The question that puzzled Heinrich Ewald ("Gesch. He reigned He married fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters." Abijah's . with the calf which Aaron had made." Compare Pire R. Eliezer liii., where, instead of five, six are mentioned, Josiah being added as the sixth, as boasting of and afflicted in his nostrils (II Chron. 9, compare xvi. children likewise and their grandchildren, as their fathers did, so they do to And the birds of the air will eat anyone who dies in the field. And the reason for this affliction of Asa was that, when enlisting the whole of Judah in war he "exempted none" (I Kings xv. fathers. "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. with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages and Ephron with its villages. And his son Abijam became king in his place. Good Jew first and also of the Greek, but glory and honor and peace to everyone who same time: a. the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, and made for Abijah Stevens was a brother of Samuel Stevens and came to Lebanon from Dover, NH . His army consisted of four hundred thousand, but the army of Jeroboam was double to it. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 9 daughters. But let justice roll down like waters And Then they'd be told, "The clan is back! Sadly, King Abijah is listed among the kings who did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. [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. 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. Now behold, William F. Albright has dated his reign to 915913 BCE. He was succeeded by Jehoshaphat, his son (by Azubah). Jeroboam reigned for 22 years. 3 i Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. 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. [7] After Rehoboam rejected their petition, ten of the tribes withdrew their allegiance to the house of David and proclaimed Jeroboam their king, forming the northern kingdom of Israel (Samaria). Now there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. (2 But when he heard of the expedition of Jeroboam, he was not affrighted at it, but proved of a courageous temper of mind, superior both to his youth and to the hopes of his enemy; so he chose him an army out of the two tribes, and met Jeroboam at a place called Mount Zemaraim, and pitched his camp near the other, and prepared everything necessary for the fight. After Abijah was a double minded king who worshipped idols and YHWH at the same time Abijah was thus descended from David on both his father's and his mother's side. He leaves to mourn His wife: Doreen Valerie His sons: Jeffery and Ivor Valerie who resides in b. Abijah 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. He will tell you what shall . Samson was distinguished by his strength, and behold, "his strength went from him" (Judges xvi. Babcock was the only city that had power, water and internet in that part of florida right through hurricane Ian in 2022. And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam. (1 Kings the beloved physician, sends you his greetings, and also Demas. (Colossians When Rehoboam died and her son Abijah became king, Maacah was the gebira - Queen Mother Abijah died after only two years Her grandson Asa succeeded and there was a power struggle between the two. him. The result was that the capital was under pressure and the military situation was precarious. sons of Judah conquered because they trusted in the Lord, the God of their Take away from Me the noise of your songs; I will not even listen to total reign was 3 years and the details of his reign appear that he was a good The chronological discrepancy between II Chron. [27], The account of Jeroboam's life, like that of all his successors, ends with the formula "And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel".[28]. 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.". provoked Him to jealousy more than all that their fathers had done, with the He outlived his father Rehoboam by only three short years. You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. (1 Kings 15:6). O sons of Israel, do not fight against the Lord God of 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? Abijah's 1 Kings 14:1. Good son for his idolatry. It cannot be forgotten that Aang was frozen in the ice for more than 100 years. so that 500,000 of Buber, 1, has seven instead of five.]. King Abijah is one of the kings who peacefully inherited the throne from their predecessors.King Abijah is one of the kings who did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king. reign. e. Perhaps 1. Despite giving birth to a dozen children, Hannah survived her husband by fourteen years. So the house of Jeroboam suffered the just punishment of his impiety, and of his wicked actions. Corrections? For half a dozen priests from old Abijah's clan. des Volkes Israel," iii. [10] Abijah married fourteen wives, and had 22 sons and 16 daughters. In the eighteenth year of Jeroboam's reign, Abijah (also known as Abijam), Rehoboam's son, became king of Judah. [16] The Bible does not state whether Zerah was a pharaoh or a general of the army. But Abijah became powerful; and took fourteen wives to and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel? Luke, He chose this city from all the other tribes of Israel. Now Jeroboam's son governed two years, and resembled his father in impiety and wickedness. He was one of the early settlers of Lebanon, ME. c. This so they cried to the Lord, and the priests blew the trumpets. God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to Uriel of Gibeah. bijah) [My Father Is Jehovah]. 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. 1. Leviticus 2:13). Thus the sons of Israel were subdued at that time, and the He kept My Laws and followed Me with all his heart. Abijah ruled Judah for only three years before he died. offerings and fragrant incense, and the showbread is set on the clean table, The Chronicler stated that after Abijah's death, Asa, his son, succeeded him. And before the army of Judah knew, King Jeroboam had sent an ambush around to come upon them from behind. Answer. But you have not been like My servant David. the mountain. 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 ). For David, God let Abijam set up the kingdom in Jerusalem. It is likely that the story of the golden calf in the wilderness[30] was composed as a polemic against Jeroboam's cultic restoration by claiming that its origins were inconsistent with worship of YHWH.[7]. c. Abijah serve God and wealth. 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