Abijah in the Bible

Meaning: the Lord is my father

Exact Match

The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second son was Abijah. They were judges in Beer Sheba.

Verse ConceptsFirstborn SonsJudging Israel

So then Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and, the name of his mother, was Naamah the Ammonitess, - and, Abijah his son, reigned, in his stead.

Verse ConceptsHeirsMothers Of KingsBuried In The City Of DavidKings Of All Israel Or Judah

Now, in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam son of Nebat, began Abijah to reign over Judah.

Rehoboam and Jeroboam were continually at war with each other throughout Abijah's lifetime.

Verse ConceptsCivil War

Now, the rest of the story of Abijah and all that he did, are, they, not written in the book of Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And there was, war, between Abijah and Jeroboam.

Verse ConceptsCivil WarHistorical Books

So then Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David, - and, Asa his son, reigned, in his stead.

Verse ConceptsBuried In The City Of DavidKings Of All Israel Or Judah

And after the death of Hezron in Caleb-Ephratah, Abijah, Hezron's wife, bore him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.

And, the son of Solomon, was Rehoboam, - Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son;

And the sons of Samuel: the firstborn Vashni and Abijah.

And the sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth; all these were the sons of Becher.

And the king hath not hearkened unto the people, for the revolution hath been from God, for the sake of Jehovah's establishing His word that He spake by the hand of Abijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam son of Nebat.

Verse ConceptsHistory

And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

Verse ConceptsThirtyThree Hundred And Above

And Rehoboam established Abijah the son of Maachah at the head, to be ruler among his brethren; for he thought to make him king.

Verse ConceptsPrinces

And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David, - and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, began Abijah to reign over Judah:

three years, reigned he in Jerusalem, and, the name of his mother, was Maacah, daughter of Uriel of Gibeah, - and there was, war, between Abijah and Jeroboam.

Verse ConceptsThree Years

And Abijah began the war with a force of heroes of war, four hundred thousand chosen men, - and, Jeroboam, set in array against him to battle, with eight hundred thousand chosen men, heroes of valour.

Verse ConceptsConfrontationThree To Nine Hundred Thousand

And Abijah stood up upon Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, - and said, Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel!

Then the men of Judah gave a shout, - and it came to pass, when the men of Judah shouted, then, God himself, smote Jeroboam and all Israel, before Abijah and Judah.

Verse ConceptsShoutingVoicesShouting For Joy

And Abijah and his people smote among them with a great smiting, - and there fell down slain, of Israel, five hundred thousand chosen men.

Verse ConceptsLossCarnageThree To Nine Hundred Thousand

And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and captured from him, cities, even Bethel, with the villages thereof, and Jeshanah, with the villages thereof, - and Ephron, with the villages thereof;

neither was Jeroboam strong any more, in the days of Abijah, - and Yahweh smote him that he died.

Verse ConceptsDeath, Means Of

And Abijah strengthened himself, and took him, fourteen wives, - and begat twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.

Verse ConceptsPolygamyFourteenTwenty Some

And, the rest of the story of Abijah, both his ways and his words, - are written, in the commentary of the prophet Iddo.

So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David, and Asa his son reigned in iris stead, - in his days, the land rested ten years.

Verse ConceptsTen To Fourteen Years

He brought the things that his father [Abijah] had dedicated and those things that he had dedicated into the house of God—silver and gold and utensils.

Verse ConceptsSilverDedication

Hezekiah began to reign being twenty-five years old; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Abijah, daughter of Zechariah.

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, History Of20 To 30 Years

and Solomon became the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam became the father of Abijah, and Abijah became the father of Asa,

In the days of Herod, king of Judaea, there was a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the order of Abijah; and he had a wife of the family of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Types Of In Nt TimesServanthood, And Worship Of GodSubdivisionsNamed Gentile RulersTimes Of People

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