Second King of Judah according to the Hebrew Bible
Abijah
Abijam from Guillaume Rouillé's Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum, 1553
King of Judah
Reign
c. 913 – 911 BCE
Predecessor
Rehoboam
Successor
Asa
Born
c. 950 BCE Jerusalem
Died
911 BCE possibly Jerusalem
Burial
Jerusalem
Spouse
14 wives
Issue
22 sons and 16 daughters
Hebrew name
אבים בן-רחבעם ’Aviyam ben Rehav’am
House
House of David
Father
Rehoboam
Mother
Maacah, or Micaiah, daughter of Uriel of Gibeah, and granddaughter of Absalom
Abijam (Hebrew: אֲבִיָּם, Modern: ʼAvīyam, Tiberian: ʼĂḇīyyām, "father of the sea" or "my father is the sea/is Yam"; Biblical Greek: Αβιού, romanized: Aviou; Latin: Abiam)[1] was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the fourth king of the House of David and the second of the Kingdom of Judah. He was the son of Rehoboam and the grandson of Solomon.[2][3][4] The Books of Chronicles refer to him as Abijah.[a][5]
^"1 Kings 15:1 Multilingual: Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah". mlbible.com.
^Pulkrabek 2007, p. 39.
^Provan, Hubbard & Johnston 2012, p. 189.
^Zucker 2013, p. 194.
^2 Chronicles 13:1–22
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