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Abijah

Mentioned in 725 BC traditional (Jones)

The daughter of Zechariah (2 Chr. 29:1; comp. Isa. 8:2), and afterwards the wife of Ahaz.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father
Zechariah
Partner
Ahaz
Child
Hezekiah
Tagged in
2 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children; a button shows the grandchildren. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Family tree of Abijah: two generations up and down, with partners and siblings.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Abijah, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.

  1. likely location: Jerusalem2

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 750–700 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 4 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Timeline of Abijah’s mentions beside the people of the same era.

Mentions

Begat counts Abijah in 2 tagged verses across 2 books.

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  1. 2 Kings1
  2. 2 Chronicles1

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBAbijah 28
KJVAbijah 20
ASVAbijah 28

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

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All 2 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

2 Kings1 verse
  1. 18:2

    He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.

2 Chronicles1 verse
  1. 29:1

    Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

The daughter of Zechariah (2 Chr. 29:1; comp. Isa. 8:2), and afterwards the wife of Ahaz. She is also called Abi (2 Kings 18:2).