Editing Abijah of Judah (section)

===Family===
Abijam is reported in the books of [[Books of Kings|Kings]] and [[Books of Chronicles|Chronicles]] as being the son of [[Maacah]] or Micaiah and father of King [[Asa of Judah]]. Some scholars believe the biblical accounts of Abijam's family to be [[Internal consistency of the Bible|contradictory]];{{sfn|Sweeney|2007|p=191}} however, a study of Hebrew linguistics may remove any seeming contradictions. One of the alleged contradictions is that Maacah is sometimes described as the daughter of [[Absalom]], and elsewhere the daughter of Uriel. Absalom is described as only having one daughter, Tamar.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/2_Samuel#14:27|title=2 Samuel 14:27}}</ref>  Apologists have countered by arguing that in Hebrew, "daughter" and "granddaughter" are the same word.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/smiths-bible-dictionary/daughter.html|title=Daughter - Smith's Bible Dictionary|date=22 October 2019|website=Bible Study Tools}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.biblestudytools.com/encyclopedias/isbe/daughter.html|title=Daughter - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia|website=Bible Study Tools|access-date=2019-10-21}}</ref> Similarly, Maacah is initially described as Abijah's mother, but subsequently described as the mother of his son Asa.  Apologists argue similarly for the ambiguity of the term "mother".<ref>{{Cite book|title=The New Strong's Expanded Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible|last=Strong|first=James|publisher=Thomas Nelson Publishers|year=2010|isbn=978-1-4185-4237-5|location=Nashville, TN}}</ref>  Abijah married [[Polygamy|fourteen wives]], and had 22 sons and 16 daughters.<ref>{{bibleverse|2|Chronicles|13:21|HE}}</ref> No attempted harmonization has found acceptance with scholars.