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Our<\/span> chapter<\/span><\/a> deals entirely with the reign of King Abijah, who ruled over Judah for just three years (915\u2013913 BCE) after the death of his father King Rehoboam, who was the son and successor of King Solomon. In<\/span> I Kings Chapter 15<\/span><\/a>, Abijah is referred to as Abijam. Indeed, there are nine different persons named Abijah in the Hebrew Bible. The popularity of this name may be because in Hebrew <\/span>Avi-Yah<\/span><\/em>, means \u201cYa (the Lord) is my father.\u201d In the Book of Kings, Abijah is portrayed as consistently wicked (see particularly<\/span> I Kings 15:3<\/span><\/a>). However, in the more extensive narrative of Abijah\u2019s short reign, here in Chronicles, he is portrayed more sympathetically.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Though<\/span> Kings<\/span><\/a> merely mentions that there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam, the first king of the Northern Kingdom of Israel,<\/span> Chronicles<\/span><\/a> provides a detailed description of this war. The Chronicles narrative notes that vast forces of hundreds of thousands of valiant, handpicked warriors were engaged in battle. In this portrayal of the war between the kingdoms of Judah and Israel, King Abijah, standing atop<\/span> Mount Zemaraim<\/span><\/a> \u201cthat is in the hill country of Ephraim\u201d, delivers a powerful address to King Jeroboam and his assembled troops,<\/span> concluding<\/span><\/a>: \u201cO children of Israel, do not fight the Lord God of your fathers, because you will not succeed\u201d. In what<\/span> follows<\/span><\/a>, King Abijah and his Judean troops crush the Israelite army, and King Jeroboam of Israel is struck down by God and dies.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our chapter<\/span> concludes<\/span><\/a> by informing us that \u201cAbijah grew powerful; he married fourteen wives and begat twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters\u201d, that the events of his reign are \u201care recorded in the <\/span>midrash<\/span><\/i> of the prophet Iddo\u201d and finally that King Abijah \u201cslept with his fathers and was buried in the City of David\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Josephus<\/span><\/a> preserves an extensive portrayal of the reign of King Abijan and adds that, having ruled for only three years, he lived only briefly to enjoy the fruits of his remarkable military victory.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In<\/span> Midrash Leviticus Rabbah<\/span><\/a> the Rabbinic Sages ponder why such a powerful Judean king ruled so briefly. On the basis of<\/span> II Chronicles 13:17<\/span><\/a>, where it is stated that \u201cAbijah and his army inflicted a severe defeat (<\/span>makah rabah<\/span><\/em>) on 500,000 picked men of Israel\u201d, the Midrash asserts that King Abijah of Judah prevented the halakhically required burial of the slain Israelite troops. Moreover, after the<\/span> conquest of Bethel<\/span><\/a>, Abijah did not destroy the idolatrous golden calves worshiped there, as would have been required according to<\/span> Deut. 7:25<\/span><\/a>. The sages assert that it was improper for Abijah to accuse all of Israel of opposing the Lord by worshiping the golden calves at Bethel (<\/span>II Chronicles 13:8)<\/span><\/a>. Rabbi Shimon ben Laqish suggests that Abijah\u2019s brief reign was a result of his having insulted the prophet<\/span> Ahijah the Shilonite<\/span><\/a> by including him among the \u201criffraff and Sons of Belial\u201d who had gathered around the rebel King Rehoboam (<\/span>II Chronicles 13:7<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In 2 Chronicles 13, we read about the reign of Abijah over the Kingdom of Judah. At the end of the chapter, there is a verse that tells the reader where to find additional information about King Abijah: \u201cThe other events of Abijah\u2019s reign, his conduct and his acts, are recorded in the story of the prophet Iddo\u201d (13:22).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This verse is not very surprising. There are mentions of the histories of other kings \u2013 for example, in the previous chapter it says that the \u201cdeeds of Rehoboam, early and late, are recorded in the chronicles of the prophet Shemaiah and Iddo the seer\u201d (12:15).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But what is noteworthy about our verse is the Hebrew words translated here as \u201cstory\u201d: <\/span>midrash<\/span><\/em>. Other translations offer \u201ctales,\u201d \u201ccommentary\u201d and \u201cnarration.\u201d However, most readers will recognize the word <\/span>midrash<\/span><\/em>\u00a0as the rabbinic interpretation and exegesis of biblical texts, which became very popular after the destruction of the Second Temple, centuries after this verse was written. The only other mention of <\/span>midrash<\/span><\/em>\u00a0in the Bible is also in our book (2 Chronicles 24:27), also summarizing the history of a king. Neither mean <\/span>midrash<\/span><\/em>\u00a0in the familiar sense to us today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So how did the word change?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To get to an answer, we need to look at <\/span>darash<\/span><\/em>, the root of the word <\/span>midrash<\/span><\/em>. Unlike <\/span>midrash<\/span><\/em>, the verb <\/span>darash<\/span><\/em>\u00a0appears (in various forms) over 150 times, throughout the entire Bible. Its meanings include \u201cto seek,\u201d \u201cto search\u201d and \u201cto inquire of.\u201d In Aramaic, the root means \u201cto examine, instruct, teach.\u201d And perhaps influenced by this Aramaic meaning, Rabbinic Hebrew adopted the sense of \u201cto expound\u201d and the word <\/span>midrash<\/span><\/em>\u00a0took on the meaning of homiletical interpretation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We do see <\/span>darash<\/span><\/em>\u00a0meaning \u201cto study\u201d in another late Biblical book: \u201cFor Ezra had dedicated himself to study (<\/span>lidrosh<\/span><\/em>) the Teaching of the L<\/span>ORD<\/span> so as to observe it, and to teach laws and rules to Israel\u201d (Ezra 7:10).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Some scholars suggest that in earlier Biblical books, people would seek out God via prophets. But in Ezra\u2019s time, as prophecy began to fade, they would search out God\u2019s will by studying His texts.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Others say look at verses where <\/span>darash<\/span><\/em>\u00a0meant \u201cto examine,\u201d like Leviticus 10:16 and Deuteronomy 13:15. They see a progression from examining testimony to examining Biblical texts through study.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Whatever the origin, it is certainly fitting that as we read the final book of the Bible, we see evidence of the growing centrality of interpreting the Biblical texts.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The fourth king of the Davidic line, and the second of the southern kingdom is Abijah. Abijah was not Rehoboam\u2019s first born but was the first born of his favorite wife. \u201cHe then took Maacah daughter of Absalom; she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith. Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than his other wives and concubines\u201d (11:20-21).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rehoboam then designates Abijah as his successor and prudently sends the older siblings out to the borderlands on assignments. Abijah, therefore, has double royal lineage from his father as a descendant of David through Solomon, and from his mother, as the descendant of David through Absalom. In I Kings 15:10 she is also called Maacah the daughter of Absalom. The problem, though, is that in chapter 13, she is given a completely different name. \u201chis mother\u2019s name was Micaiah daughter of Uriel of Gibeah\u201d (verse 3)!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The commentators are split on the reason. Some say that this is just another example of people in Tanach having multiple, similar sounding names. She is clearly the same person and must have had an official name and a nickname. Her father\u2019s name was Absalom Uriel, so sometimes he is referred to as Absalom and sometimes as Uriel. Other commentators say that her real name was Michaiah, daughter of Uriel. She was called Maacaah after her daughter in law who was a righteous person. This second reason is odd because it assumes that this is a normal practice. However, there does not seem to be any other instance of a mother-in-law nicknamed for her daughter in law.\u00a0 This second interpretation does not explain why her father\u2019s name was changed to Uriel. Based on the first few chapters of I Chronicles, there are multiple examples of people having similar sounding names in different places in Tanach.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Our chapter reports that \u201cIn the eighteenth year of Jeroboam\u201d (1), Rehoboam was succeeded by his son Abijah, who \u201creigned three years in Jerusalem; his mother\u2019s name was Micaiah daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam\u201d (2). But there is a different version. 1 Kings claims that Rehoboam died in the 17<\/span>th<\/span> year of Jeroboam\u2019s reign, that Abijah did not rule for three years, and his mother\u2019s name was not Micaiah. Here are some of the details, courtesy of Pseudo-Rashi, and others, by way of Radak.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Pseudo-Rashi explained that the first discrepancy is a matter of how the length of a king\u2019s reign is calculated:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[Abijah] reigned three years: And no longer, to wit, \u201cIn the twentieth year of Jeroboam. King of Israel, Asa ruled over Judah\u201d (1 Kings 15:9), indicating that [Abijah] did not rule for three whole years.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And he attributed the discrepancy in the use of proper nouns to the use of nicknames:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Above (2 Chr. 11:20) her name is given as Maacah daughter of Absalom, and it is so recorded in 1 Kings (15:2). Her real name was Micaiah daughter of Uriel and she is so called here because this is the [official] Judean genealogical record, while in Kings, which is [merely] the record of Judean and Israelite monarchy, she is called by a nickname.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Radak similarly explained:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We do not know why Abijah was delayed in ruling for a whole year, since Rehoboam ruled for only 17 years [2 Chronicles 12:13] and he and Jeroboam started their respective reigns in the same year. It is conceivable that Rehoboam began his 18<\/span>th<\/span> year, but it was not included because it was not completed, while the years of Jeroboam were accounted for [more precisely].<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Arguably, the only detail that is entirely accurate here is the state of war between Abijah and Jeroboam, about which Malbim observed: \u201cIt is reported in 1 Kings (15:7) just briefly, while here it is reported at length.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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13:2 \u201cThree years he was king in Jerusalem, and his mother\u2019s name was Michaiah daughter of Uriel from Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

1 Kings 15:2 reports Abijah\u2019s mother to be Maachah daughter of Absalom. In fact, the rest of this chapter conveys an account of Abijah\u2019s reign and his military activities that does not appear in Kings, and is perhaps drawn from another source.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Comp lit.<\/em> A different story of the kingship of Abijah, king of Judah (in Kings: Abijam) is told in 1 Kings 15. There is more difference than similarity between the two versions. Compare and contrast.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Abijah and Abijam<\/em>. The name of Rehoboam\u2019s son in Kings is Abijam and in Chronicles is Abijah. There are those who suggest that the name Abijam in Kings was chosen in order to avoid confusion with Jeroboam\u2019s son, whose name was - Abijah (1 Kings 14:1), and who reigned in the neighboring kingdom of Israel. In Chronicles, which doesn\u2019t include the story of the kingdom of Israel, that isn\u2019t necessary.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Who are you, Abijah<\/em>? The differences between Chronicles and Kings raise questions about the biography of Abijah, and about his beliefs and behavior. Was he the man of faith that is reflected in his speech in Chronicles, or did he \u201ccontinue in all the sins that his father before him had committed; he was not wholehearted with the LORD his God, like his father David\u201d as presented in 1 Kings (14:3)?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. There\u2019s military might, and then there\u2019s victory<\/em>. Verse 3 reveals the power relations between the two armies: \u201cAbijah joined battle with a force of warriors, 400,000 picked men. Jeroboam arrayed for battle against him 800,000 picked men, warriors.\u201d This numerical ratio amplifies the point that the military power isn\u2019t necessarily relevant. 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