Abia

1. Also called ABIJAH, chief of the twenty-four courses of priests

• 1 Chronicles 24:10

  The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,

• Nehemiah 12:4

  Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah,

• Luke 1:5

  There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judæa, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

2. Son of Samuel

• 1 Samuel 8:1–5

  And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel. Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer-sheba. And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment. …

• 1 Chronicles 6:28

  And the sons of Samuel; the firstborn Vashni, and Abiah.

3. King of Judah