Abijah (queen)

Abijah
Queen consort of Judea
Reignc.732 – 716 BCE
SpouseAhaz
IssueHezekiah
FatherZachariah

Abijah is a person named in the Old Testament. She was the daughter of a Zachariah, possibly Zachariah the son of Jeberechiah (2 Chronicles 29:1; compare Book of Isaiah 8:2), and afterwards the wife of King Ahaz[1] (reigned c. 732 - 716 BCE) and mother of King Hezekiah (reigned c. 715-686 BCE). She is also called Abi (2 Kings 18:2).

Some writers[2][3][4] consider Abijah to be the almah or "young woman" (at the time of the prophecy) in the Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah 7:14, and that the child who will be an infant when Rezin and Pekah are defeated by Tiglath-Pileser III (reigned 745–727 BCE) may be the future heir, Hezekiah.

  1. ^ "Abijah". A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography: 2. 1857. Wikidata Q115281590.
  2. ^ Whittaker, Harry (1988). Isaiah (PDF). Cannock, Staffordshire: Biblia Books.[permanent dead link‍]
  3. ^ Hammershaimb, Erling (1949). "The Immanuel Sign". Studia Theologica. 3 (2): 124–42. doi:10.1080/00393384908599686.
  4. ^ Lindblom, Johannes (1958). A study on the Immanuel section in Isaiah: Isa. vii,1–ix,6. Lund.