Abijam
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Abijam
Abijam ("father of the sea" or "my father is the sea" or "my father is the god
Yam
") was the fourth king of the
House of David
and the second of the
Kingdom of Judah
. He was the grandson of
Solomon
and the great-grandson of
David
. The
Chronicler
refers to him as "
Abijah
("my father is Yahweh").
William F. Albright
has dated his reign to
915 BC
-
913 BC
, while
E. R. Thiele
offers the dates
913 BC
-
911 BC
. The
Hebrew Bible
gives his reign length as three years. His mother's name was Maacah, or Micaiah, the granddaughter of the infamous Abishalom (
Absalom
).
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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
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Abijam
father of the sea
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869) , by Roswell D. Hitchcock.
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Abijam
See: Abia, Abiah, Or Abijah, Abijah Or Abijam, 1
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) , by William Smith.
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Abijam
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 ¯T0000036, 5.)
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