ABIHUD (a-bi'hud), (Heb. ab-ee-hood , father of renown).
1. One of the two sons of Bela (I Chron. viii :3), perhaps the same called Ahihud (v :7), B. C. after 1856. (See JAcoB.) 2. The great-great-grandson of Zerubbabel and father of Eliakim; among the paternal ancestry of Jesus (Matt. i :13, called `Abiud'). Probably the same with Juda, son of Joanna and father of Joseph in the maternal line (Luke iii :26), and perhaps with Obadiah, son of Arnan and father of Shecaniah in the O. T. (I Chron. iii:21), B. C. before 410.
ABIJAH ab-ee-yaw , whose father God is, 2 Chron. xiii:1). He is also called Abijam, i Kings xv:1; Neh. x:7; 'Aglas in i Chron. xxiv:io; Neh. xii:4, 17; A71.6p.s in t Chron. vii:8; Abiah in I Sam. viii:2; I Chron. vi:28; A bia in Chron. iii:to; Matt. 1:7; Luke i:5.
1. A son of Becher, one of the sons of Benja min (1 Chron vii :8), B. C. post 1856.
2. The daughter of l\lachir and wife of Hezron (I Chron. :2i, 24), B. C. about 1612.
3. The second son of Samuel (1 Sam. viii :2 ; Chron. vi :28), B. C. about 1093. (See SAMUEL.) 4. Son of Jeroboam, the first king of Israel. He having been seized with a dangerous disease, his mother disguised herself, and visited the prophet Ahijah to know whether he might re cover. Ahijah answered her that he would die, and be the only person in his family who would receive funeral honors, and be lamented by Israel (1 Kings xiv:I-18), B. C. about 930. (See JERO BOAM.) 5. A descendant of Eleazar, son of Aaron, and head of the eighth of the twenty-four companies of priests (I Chron. xxiv :to; Luke i :5), B. C. about io14.
6. Called Abijam (1 Kings xiv :31; xv :I), was the son of Rehoboam, and second king of Judah (1 Chron. iii:Io). He succeeded his father
(B. C. before 918) and reigned three years only. fn the first book of Kings he is described as walk ing in all the sins of his father, and as waging war with Jeroboam, king of Israel. But in 2 Chron. xiii lie is represented as professedly and boastfully zealous for the honor of God and for the Levitical priesthood. He is also there said to have obtained a decisive victory over Jeroboam.
7. The daughter of Zechariah, wife of Ahaz, and mother of Hezekiah, king of Judah (2 Chron. xxix :11 ; called Abi (2 Kings xviii :2).
8. One of the priests who probably affixed their signatures to the covenant made with Nehe miah ( Neh. x :7), B. C. 410. He probably re turned with Zerubbabel from Babylon, although very old (Neh. xii :4), B. C. 536, and had a son named Zichri (Neh. xii :17).
There is a difficulty connected with the ma ternity of Abijah, 6. In i Kings xv :2, we read, 'His mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom ;' but in 2 Chron. xiii :2, 'His mother's name was Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah.' Maachah and Michaiah are variations of the same name; and Abishalom is in all likeli hood Absalom, the son of David. The word ban, rendered 'daughter,' is applied in the Bible not only to a man's child, but to his niece, grand daughter, or great-granddaughter. It is there fore probable that Uriel of Gibeah married Tamar, the beautiful daughter of Absalom (2 Sam. xiv: 27), and by her had Maachah, who was thus the daughter of Uriel and granddaughter of Absalom. (See MAAcHAH.)