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15:1 In the eighteenth <06240> <08083> year <08141> of the reign <04428> of Jeroboam <03379> son <01121> of Nebat <05028>, Abijah <038> became king <04427> over <05921> Judah <03063>. 15:2 He ruled <04427> for three <07969> years <08141> in Jerusalem <03389>. His mother <0517> was Maacah <04601>, the daughter <01323> of Abishalom <053>. 15:3 He followed <01980> all <03605> the sinful <02403> practices <06213> of his father <01> before <06440> him. He was <01961> not <03808> wholeheartedly devoted <08003> <03824> to <05973> the Lord <03068> his God <0430>, as his ancestor <01> David <01732> had been. 15:4 Nevertheless <03588> for <04616> David’s <01732> sake <04616> the Lord <03068> his God <0430> <05414> maintained his dynasty <05216> in Jerusalem <03389> by giving <06965> him a son <01121> to succeed <0310> him and by protecting <05975> Jerusalem <03389>. 15:5 He did <06213> this because <0834> David <01732> had done what he approved <05869> <03477> and had not <03808> disregarded <05493> any <03605> of his commandments <06680> his entire <03605> lifetime <02416> <03117>, except <07535> for the incident <01697> involving Uriah <0223> the Hittite <02850>. 15:6 Rehoboam <07346> and Jeroboam <03379> were <01961> continually at war <04421> with each other <0996> throughout <03605> Abijah’s lifetime <02416> <03117>. 15:7 The rest <03499> of the events <01697> of Abijah’s <038> reign, including all <03605> his <01992> accomplishments <06213>, are recorded <03789> in <05921> the scroll <05612> called the Annals <01697> of the Kings <04428> of Judah <03063>. Abijah <038> and Jeroboam <03379> had been <01961> at <0996> war <04421> with each <0996> other. 15:8 Abijah <038> passed away <01> <05973> <07901> and was buried <06912> in the city <05892> of David <01732>. His son <01121> Asa <0609> replaced <08478> him as king <04427>. 15:9 In the twentieth <06242> year <08141> of Jeroboam’s <03379> reign over <04428> Israel <03478>, Asa <0609> became <04427> the king <04428> of Judah <03063>. 15:10 He ruled <04427> for forty-one <0705> years <08141> in Jerusalem <03389>. His grandmother <0517> was Maacah <04601> daughter <01323> of Abishalom <053>.

• 1Ki 15:1-8 -- Abijah's Reign over Judah
• 1Ki 15:9-24 -- Asa's Reign over Judah

• QUEEN MOTHER

  [isbe] QUEEN MOTHER - (gebhirah, literally, "mistress," then a female ruler, and sometimes simply the wife of a king ("queen," 1 Ki 11:19); in Dan 5:10 the term malketha' "queen," really means the mother of the king): It stands to ...
  

• MAACAH; MAACHAH

  [isbe] MAACAH; MAACHAH - ma'-a-ka (ma`akhah): (1) Septuagint: Codex Vaticanus Mocha; Codex Alexandrinus Mocha, daughter of Nahor, borne to him by Reumah (Gen 22:24). (2) Septuagint: Codex Vaticanus Maacha; Codex Alexandrinus Maacha...
  

• LAMP; LAMPSTAND

  [isbe] LAMP; LAMPSTAND - lamp'-stand (nir, ner, lappidh, Phoenician lampadh, whence lampas; luchnos is also used): Ner or nir is properly "light" or "a light-giving thing," hence, "lamp," and is so rendered in the Revised Version (...
  

• Kings, The Books of

  [ebd] The two books of Kings formed originally but one book in the Hebrew Scriptures. The present division into two books was first made by the LXX., which now, with the Vulgate, numbers them as the third and fourth books of Kings...
  

• KINGS, BOOKS OF

  [isbe] KINGS, BOOKS OF - || I. TITLE II. SCOPE III. CHARACTER OF BOOKS AND POSITION IN THE HEBREW CANON 1. Purpose 2. Character of Data IV. HISTORICAL VALUE 1. Treatment of Historical Data 2. Chronology 3. Value of Assyrian Records...
  

• JUDAH, KINGDOM OF

  [isbe] JUDAH, KINGDOM OF - || I. CANAAN BEFORE THE MONARCHY 1. The Coming of the Semites 2. The Canaanites 3. The Israelite Confederacy 4. Migration into Canaan 5. The Bond of Union 6. Early Rulers 7. The Judges 8. Hereditary Kings...
  

• JERUSALEM, 4

  [isbe] JERUSALEM, 4 - IX. History. Pre-Israelite period.--The beginnings of Jerusalem are long before recorded history: at various points in the neighborhood, e.g. at el Bukei`a to the Southwest, and at the northern extremity of th...
  

• JEHOSHAPHAT (2)

  [isbe] JEHOSHAPHAT (2) - je-hosh'-a-fat (yehoshaphaT, "Yahweh judges"): The 4th king of Judah, son of Asa. His mother was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi, of whom nothing further is known. He was 35 years of age at his accession, an...
  

• Israel

  [nave] ISRAEL 1. A name given to Jacob, Gen. 32:24-32; 2 Kin. 17:34; Hos. 12:3, 4. 2. A name of the Christ in prophecy, Isa. 49:3. 3. A name given to the descendants of Jacob, a nation. Called also Israelites, and Hebrews, Gen. 4...
  

• ISRAEL, KINGDOM OF

  [isbe] ISRAEL, KINGDOM OF - || I. THE FIRST PERIOD 1. The Two Kingdoms 2. The Ist Dynasty 3. The IInd Dynasty 4. Civil War II. PERIOD OF THE SYRIAN WARS 1. The IIIrd Dynasty 2. World-Politics 3. Battle of Karkar 4. Loss of Territor...
  

• ISRAEL, HISTORY OF, 3

  [isbe] ISRAEL, HISTORY OF, 3 - V. Period of the Separated Kingdoms. 1. Contrasts and Vicissitudes of the Kingdoms: The two separated kingdoms differed materially. The kingdom of Ephraim was the more powerful of the two. It embraced...
  

• Chronology

  [ebd] is the arrangement of facts and events in the order of time. The writers of the Bible themselves do not adopt any standard era according to which they date events. Sometimes the years are reckoned, e.g., from the time of the...
  

• CHRONOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

  [isbe] CHRONOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT - kro-nol'-o-ji: I. INTRODUCTORY 1. Difficulties of the Subject 2. Plan of Treatment 3. Bible to be Regarded as Highest Authority II. THE AGES BETWEEN THE TESTAMENTS III. PERSIAN PERIOD IV. BA...
  

• CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF

  [isbe] CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF - kron'-i-k'-ls (dibhere ha-yamim, "The Words of the Days"; Septuagint paraleipomenon: 1. The Name 2. The Position of Chronicles in the Old Testament 3. Two Books, or One? 4. The Contents 5. Sources Bibl...
  

• Burial

  [ebd] The first burial we have an account of is that of Sarah (Gen. 23). The first commercial transaction recorded is that of the purchase of a burial-place, for which Abraham weighed to Ephron "four hundred shekels of silver curr...
  

• Baasha

  [ebd] bravery, the third king of the separate kingdom of Israel, and founder of its second dynasty (1 Kings 15; 16; 2 Chr. 16:1-6). He was the son of Ahijah of the tribe of Issachar. The city of Tirzah he made the capital of his k...
  

• Asa

  [ebd] physician, son of Abijah and grandson of Rehoboam, was the third king of Judah. He was zealous in maintaining the true worship of God, and in rooting all idolatry, with its accompanying immoralities, out of the land (1 Kings...
  [isbe] ASA - a'-sa ('aca', "healer"; Asa): (1) A king of Judah, the third one after the separation of Judah and Israel. He was the son of Abijah and grandson of Rehoboam. Maacah, his mother, or rather grandmother, was daughter of A...
  [nave] ASA 1. King of Judah, 1 Kin. 15:8-24; 1 Chr. 3:10; 2 Chr. 14; 15; 16; Matt. 1:7. 2. A Levite, 1 Chr. 9:16.
  

• Abijam

  [ebd] father of the sea; i.e., "seaman" the name always used in Kings of the king of Judah, the son of Rehoboam, elsewhere called Abijah (1 Kings 15:1,7,8). (See ABIJAH.)
  [isbe] ABIJAM - a-bi'-jam ('abhiyam, "father of sea," or, "father of west"). The name given in Kings (1 Ki 14:31; 15:1,7,8) to the son of Rehoboam who succeeded him as king of Judah. See ABIJAH. The name has puzzled scholars. Some ...
  [nave] ABIJAM, called also Abijah and Abia. King of Judah, 1 Kin. 14:31; 15:1; 2 Chr. 12:16. History of, 1 Kin. 15:1-8; 2 Chr. 11:22; 13. Succeeded by Asa, 1 Kin. 15:8; 2 Chr. 14:1.
  

• ABSALOM (1)

  [isbe] ABSALOM (1) - ab'-sa-lom ('abhshalom, "father is peace," written also Abishalom, 1 Ki 15:2,10): David's third son by Maacah, daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur, a small territory between Hermon and Bashan. 1. A General Favor...
  

• ABIJAH

  [ebd] 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...
  [isbe] ABIJAH - a-bi'-ja ('abhiyah or 'abhiyahu (2 Ch 13:20,21), "my father is Yahweh," or "Yahweh is father"): The name of six or more men and two women in the Old Testament. (1) The seventh son of Becher the son of Benjamin (1 Ch...
  

• King Abijah

  

• Asa Building, Fighting, and Looting

  

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