Abijah

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Abijah
     father (i.e., "possessor or worshipper") of Jehovah. (1.) 1 Chr.
     7:8. (2.) 1 Chr. 2:24.
     
       (3.) The second son of Samuel (1 Sam. 8:2; 1 Chr. 6:28). His
     conduct, along with that of his brother, as a judge in


     Beer-sheba, to which office his father had appointed him, led to
     popular discontent, and ultimately provoked the people to demand
     a royal form of government.
     
       (4.) A descendant of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, a chief of one
     of the twenty-four orders into which the priesthood was divided
     by David (1 Chr. 24:10). The order of Abijah was one of those
     which did not return from the Captivity (Ezra 2:36-39; Neh.
     7:39-42; 12:1).
     
       (5.) The son of Rehoboam, whom he succeeded on the throne of
     Judah (1 Chr. 3:10). He is also called Abijam (1 Kings 14:31;
     15:1-8). He began his three years' reign (2 Chr. 12:16; 13:1,2)
     with a strenuous but unsuccessful effort to bring back the ten
     tribes to their allegiance. His address to "Jeroboam and all
     Israel," before encountering them in battle, is worthy of being
     specially noticed (2 Chr. 13:5-12). It was a very bloody battle,
     no fewer than 500,000 of the army of Israel having perished on
     the field. He is described as having walked "in all the sins of
     his father" (1 Kings 15:3; 2 Chr. 11:20-22). It is said in 1
     Kings 15:2 that "his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of
     Abishalom;" but in 2 Chr. 13:2 we read, "his mother's name was
     Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah." The explanation is
     that Maachah is just a variation of the name Michaiah, and that
     Abishalom is probably the same as Absalom, the son of David. It
     is probable that "Uriel of Gibeah" married Tamar, the daughter
     of Absalom (2 Sam. 14:27), and by her had Maachah. The word
     "daughter" in 1 Kings 15:2 will thus, as it frequently elsewhere
     does, mean grand-daughter.
     
       (6.) A son of Jeroboam, the first king of Israel. On account
     of his severe illness when a youth, his father sent his wife to
     consult the prophet Ahijah regarding his recovery. 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. As his mother crossed the threshold
     of the door on her return, the youth died, and "all Israel
     mourned for him" (1 Kings 14:1-18).
     
       (7.) The daughter of Zechariah (2 Chr. 29:1; comp. Isa. 8:2),
     and afterwards the wife of Ahaz. She is also called Abi (2 Kings
     18:2).
     
       (8.) One of the sons of Becher, the son of Benjamin (1 Chr.
     7:8). "Abiah," A.V.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Abijah, the Lord is my father