I. ABIJAH, son of Jeroboam, the first king of Israel. Having been seized with a dangerous disease, his mother disguised herself, and visited the prophet Ahijah to know whether he might recover. 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. 1.

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II. ABIJAH, called Abijam, (1 Kings xv. 1.) was the son of Rehoboam, and second king of Judah. He succeeded his father, A.M. 3400, ante A. D. 958, and reigned three years only. In the first book of Kings he is described as walking in all the sins of his father, and as waging war with Jeroboam, king of Israel. But in 2 Chron. xiii. he 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.

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III. ABIJAH, wife of Ahaz, and mother of Hezekiah, king of Judah; (2 Chron. xxix. 1.) called Abi, 2 Kings xviii. 2.

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IV. ABIJAH, a descendant of Eleazar, son of Aaron, and head of the eighth of the twenty-four companies of priests, 1 Chron. xxiv. 10; Luke i. 5.