Bible Verses About Abia

When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as judges over Israel.

The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second was Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba.

But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside toward dishonest gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice.

So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah.

“Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations.”

The sons of Samuel: Joel his firstborn and Abijah his second son.

the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,

Iddo, Ginnethon, Abijah,

In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and whose wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Aaron.