He lived well past "half [the] days . [1], Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. 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. Asa became very angry and threw Hanani in jail. and YHWH at the same time or was he a good king who turned to the dark side? But he settles everything with his wife and dies at the age of 66. king/Bad king: He was a double-minded king who worshipped idols at the same And Jeroboam drew up his line of battle against him with 800,000 chosen mighty warriors. BibleGateway+ is less than $5/mo. This is what you should say to her. On account of his severe illness when a youth, his father sent his wife to consult the prophet Ahijah regarding his recovery. Abijah reigned for only three years (913-911 BC) in Judah before he died. 179 and 351; IV Sibyl. Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Daughter - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Asa_of_Judah&oldid=1133469209, This page was last edited on 13 January 2023, at 23:40. was able to re-capture the historic tribal lands of Benjamin that had fallen 22 But when he heard . What Jeroboam is portrayed by Nickolas Grace in Solomon & Sheba (1995) and by Richard Dillane in Solomon (1997). God had a sense of dj vu in the fact that both Abijah and his father Rehoboam He married fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters." Abijah's . When Abijah became king he continued the war and battles that his father fought with Jeroboam. land: "The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the total reign was 3 years and the details of his reign appear that he was a good 3000 men of the people fell that day." [17]) Alteratively it could be interpreted as 26th year of Asa's reign and the last year of Baasha's life. 1Ki 14:1-20. [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]. Now behold, b. Abijah and the sons of Aaron are ministering to the Lord as priests, and the Levites In his 36th year, he was confronted by Baasha, king of Israel. good or bad. (2 Corinthians 5:10). sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant tree. Abijah was a double minded king who worshipped idols and YHWH at the same time death of 500,000 Israelites is the largest single divine cull of sinful Hebrews 2. [10][11] Similarly, Maacah is initially described as Abijah's mother, but subsequently described as the mother of his son Asa. 3 He did all the same sins that his father before him had done. over Judah. Steve Rudd: Contact the author for drew up in battle formation against him with 800,000 chosen men who were worshipped idols. Luke 1:5 In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah; and he had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. At 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. 2. On account of his severe illness when a youth, his father sent his wife to consult the prophet Ahijah regarding his recovery. Benjamin. 6b). So they all at once implored the Divine assistance, while the priests sounded with the trumpet, and they made a shout, and fell upon their enemies, and God brake the courage and cast down the force of their enemies, and made Ahijah's army superior to them; for God vouchsafed to grant them a wonderful and very famous victory; and such a slaughter was now made of Jeroboam's army [29] as is never recorded to have happened in any other war, whether it were of the Greeks or of the Barbarians, for they overthrew [and slew] five hundred thousand of their enemies, and they took their strongest cities by force, and spoiled them; and besides those, they did the same to Bethel and her towns, and Jeshanah and her towns. "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. 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! You may unsubscribe from Bible Gateways emails at any time. people did not answer him a word. (1 Kings 18:21), c. So Jeroboam's child dies 19-20. 15:1-7; 2 Chron 13:1-22, 1. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). [9] In Hebrew, "daughter" and "granddaughter" are the same word, removing any contradiction there. and his sons by a covenant of salt? a. Rehoboam For that man ought not 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. Summary statement of Jeroboam's reign 21-31. pointed out that the true kingship belonged to the house of David, not this day. (2 Kings 17:41), d. I Israel stoned him to death. had already ignored the warnings of two prophets and endured the death of his 2), there was also the marvelous throne of Solomon upon which all the kings of Judah subsequently sat (Esther R. i. his own against them. [3] He had at least two sons, Abijah[4] and Nadab, who succeeded him on the throne. those who died on account of Korah." set up two sanctuaries: in the north at Dan and in the south at Bethel. Have you not driven out He was 60 years old. three years in Jerusalem; and his mothers name was Micaiah the daughter of She can lie beside him so that our lord the king may keep warm.'. off" gentile nations who tried to fight the Hebrews, but these are all 5 The Lord had said to Ahijah, "The wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is sick. 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. E. R. Thiele offers the dates 914/913 911/910 BCE. and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill the alarm against you. 4. [18] Baasha built the fortress of Ramah on the border, less than ten miles from Jerusalem. Asa (Hebrew: .mw-parser-output .script-hebrew,.mw-parser-output .script-Hebr{font-family:"SBL Hebrew","SBL BibLit","Taamey Ashkenaz","Taamey Frank CLM","Frank Ruehl CLM","Ezra SIL","Ezra SIL SR","Keter Aram Tsova","Taamey David CLM","Keter YG","Shofar","David CLM","Hadasim CLM","Simple CLM","Nachlieli",Cardo,Alef,"Noto Serif Hebrew","Noto Sans Hebrew","David Libre",David,"Times New Roman",Gisha,Arial,FreeSerif,FreeSans}, 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. Then he died and his son Nadab ruled in his place. The last years of King Abijah' s brief reign were peaceful. Among the treasures which Asa took from Zerah the Ethiopian, and which Zerah had taken from Shishak (II Chron. c. There Although it is difficult to know for sure, it seems that he was a good king who The Bible texts: 1 Kings 15:1-7; 2 Chron 13:1-22. Jeffery, nice insights into Zechariah and ancestry and life. Corrections? In Asa's 36th year, King Baasha of Israel attacked the Kingdom of Judah (2 Chronicles 16:1; the Seder Olam and some later commentators take this as the 36th year since the division of the kingdom, not the 36th year of Asa's reign. 4. 50+ premium resources (>$2,400 value!). 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. 7); Asa by his feet (compare as to Adam B. the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways and his words are written in the [12] He began his three-year reign (2 Chr. Judah raised a war cry, and when the men of Judah raised the war cry, then it And what is it you depend upon for victory? my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you, as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, xii. a. Abijah We are made to understand that Abijah was a wicked King throughout his reign. . 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. c. The insanity, delusion, confusion, bees, illness, plague etc. to Dalmatia. (2 Timothy 4:9-10), d. For But you have not been like My servant David. Abijah waged war against the Northern kingdom, and just like his father Rehoboam, he did not follow the paths of righteousness ( 1 Kings 15 ). 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. And the birds of the air will eat anyone who dies in the field. Or, secondly, Many years after it, i.e. If you have any questions, please review our Privacy Policy or email us at privacy@biblegateway.com. will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the border was now south of Bethel because Jeroboam had set up an altar with a Did you present Me with sacrifices 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. Abijah went out to battle, having an army of valiant men of war, 400,000 chosen men. At Biblical background [ edit] Jeroboam was the son of Nebat, a member of the Tribe of Ephraim of Zereda. Bethel and Dan were already established cultic sites. yourselves priests like the peoples of other lands? xiii. xvi. And after this defeat Jeroboam never recovered himself during the life of Abijah, who yet did not long survive, for he reigned but three years, and was buried in Jerusalem in the sepulchers of his forefathers. Calf at Sinai: "Then the Lord smote the people, because of what they did listening to all these things and were scoffing at Him. It is alternatively translated to mean "his people are many" or "he increases the people" (from rbb, meaning "to increase"), or even "he that opposes the people". And the Lord struck him down and he died. of Solomon the son of David, rose up and rebelled against his master, and Exodus 32:28, d. Golden Then the men of Following Abijah's ascension to the throne in the 18th year of King Jeroboam I of Israel, he marched north with the purpose of winning Israel back to the Davidic kingdom. She groaned for days and . Kadesh Barnea: "But those who died by the plague were 14,700, besides Israel. (1 Kings 14:2224). 1. 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). people, so that many people of Israel died." Thus, we know his death date. 9, compare xvi. And old man Zach Is coming up the hill!" With pack And staff and ninety years of life, Or more, some saidhe'd climb. Abijah died in Lebanon, ME, 15 January 1809, age 91 . vii. 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. He lived in Ste. As his mother crossed the threshold of the door on her return, the youth died, and "all Israel mourned for him". does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the forced labor, and all [24] He also lost the towns of Bethel, Jeshanah, and Ephron, with their surrounding villages. In 2 Kings 18:2 Abi occurs as an abbreviation of this name. When Rehoboam died, his son Abijam became king of Judah. wrote Ps 18 as a result of this escape and penned the words: "My God, my "Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah. 29Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 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