His Ma, His Pa and His Great-Grandpa

Abijam (Abijah), the son of King Rehoboam
and great-grandson of King David, 

becomes the second king to rule Judah,

 the southern nation in the Promised Land:

Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah. Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father. Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem: Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the manner of Uriah the Hittite. And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam. And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.-1 Kings 15:1-8

Reference Information:

lamp = nir/ner = light

perfect = salem/shalem = loyal, safe, complete, at peace

Reference Scriptures: 
And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.-2 Samuel 11:14-15

And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.-1 Kings 11:36

And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valour.-2 Chronicles 13:3

The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.-Matthew 1:1...And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias; And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;-Maatthew 1:6-7...And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.-Matthew 1:16

And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,-Luke 3:23...Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David,-Luke 3:31...Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.-Luke 3:38

The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.-Acts 13:17...And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfill all my will. Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:-Acts 13:22-23

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A Certain Someone

The Words of

Jesus the Christ,

the Son of God:

And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David's son? And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, the LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, Till I make thine enemies thy footstool. David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his son? Then in the audience of all the people he said unto his disciples, Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts; Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation. And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.-Luke 20:41-21:4***Samuel the priest, prophet and judge was from the tribe of Levi, descended from Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai), Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob (Israel), and his 1st wife Leah, and Jacob and Leah's 3rd born son Levi. When Samuel was elderly, and his sons Joel (Vashni) and Abiah (Abijah) were not obeying the commands of the Lord God, and King Nahash and his Ammonite army were preparing to attack, the Israelite elders demanded that Samuel appoint a king to lead them, and Samuel anointed Saul, from the tribe of Benjamin, to reign, according to the command of the Lord God. Benjamin was the 2nd and last son born to Jacob and his 2nd wife Rachel. At least twice, Saul did not obey the commands of the Lord God. The Lord God rejected Saul from reigning, and the Lord God sent Samuel to anoint David to reign as king. The identity of David's other is not revealed in the divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible. Jesse, from the tribe of Jacob and Leah's 4th born son Judah, was David's elderly father. Sometime after being anointed, David began serving as a musician and an armor-bearer for Saul, and David killed and beheaded Goliath the gigantic Philistine. David and Jonathan,  Saul's son, made a covenant. The Israelite women sang of David higher than they sang of Saul and Saul was angry. Saul wanted to kill David, and became afraid of David, and sent David on missions to get killed, and commanded others, including Jonathan, to kill David. Saul's daughter Michal was married to David and helped David escape from their home. After the Philistines killed Jonathan and his brothers Malchishua and Abinadab (Ishui?), and Saul's self-inflicted death on the same battlefield, men from the tribe of Judah anointed 30-year-old David, and David began to rule only over the tribe of Judah. Saul's son Ishbosheth (Eshbaal) ruled over the other Israelite tribes. Sometime after Ishbosheth was murdered, the Israelite elders went to David and David made a covenant with them. The elders anointed 37-year old David, and David became the 2nd king to rule over all of the Israelites. During David's reign, Amnon, the son born to David and Ahinoam, raped Tamar, the daughter born to David and Maacah, and David and Maacah's son Absalom plotted Amnon's death. Amnon was killed, and Absalom escaped to Geshur, Syria (Aram), the kingdom ruled by his maternal grandfather. Over 2 years after Joab, David's nephew and army commander, received permission from David to bring Absalom back to Jerusalem, Absalom had himself proclaimed king while David reigned. Joab disobeyed David's command, and plunged 3 pointed weapons into Absalom's body, and Joab's 10 armor-bearers attacked Absalom, and Absalom died. When David was elderly, Adonijah, the son born to David and Haggith, proclaimed himself king while David reigned. Meanwhile, David commanded that Solomon, the 2nd son born to David and Bathsheba, be anointed and reign as king, according to the will of the Lord God. The 1st son born to David and Bathsheba died, according to the will of the Lord God, due to the actions involved in David's relationship with Bathsheba, and David's responsibility for the death of Bathsheba's husband Uriah. After Adonijah went to Bathsheba and made a specific request, Solomon commanded that Adonijah be put to death, and Adonijah was killed. Rehoboam, the son born to Solomon and Naamah, was the 4th king to rule over all of the Israelites, the treasured and chosen people of the Lord God. After Rehoboam gave a specific answer, the Israelites split into 2 kingdoms, according to the will of the Lord God, due to the idolatry and other wickedness of Solomon. Judah was the nation in the south, Jerusalem was the royal city, and Rehoboam was the 1st king to reign. Israel was the northern nation, Samaria was the final royal city, and Jeroboam, the son born to Nebat and Zeruah, was the 1st king to reign. Less than 200 years after Jeroboam's son Nadab became the 2nd king to rule the northern nation, the Assyrians invaded the kingdom and conquered Samaria, according to the will of the Lord God, due to the idolatry and other wickedness of the Israelites. Less than 140 years after Samaria was conquered, Rehoboam's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson Zedekiah (Mattaniah) became the 19th king to rule Judah. During the 11th year of Zedekiah's reign, the Babylonians (Chaldeans) conquered Jerusalem, according to the will of the Lord God, due to the idolatry and other wickedness of the Israelites. Over 500 years after Israelites began returning to Judah and Jerusalem, John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, were born. John the Baptist was born into the tribe of Levi to Zechariah (Zacharias) the priest and his wife Elizabeth (Elizabeth). Jesus the Christ was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Elizabeth's relative  Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah, the tribe of Judah's kings, to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin. Approximately 30 years after John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ were born, Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist. Jesus having prayed, the heavens tearing open, the Holy Spirit descended as a dove and lit upon Jesus. The Lord God in heaven audibly acknowledged his Son Jesus, and the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert wilderness. Jesus fasted 40 days and nights and was tempted. Afterwards, Jesus was tended to by angels, and Jesus went to the area near John the Baptist, and John the Baptist proclaimed Jesus to be the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world, and testified that Jesus is the Son of God. In Galilee, Jesus, the Christ, the Son of David, told specific Israelite men to follow him, and Jesus began to preach, teach and perform miracles among the Israelites, including some scribes. Less than 3 1/2 years after Jesus was baptized, Jesus was betrayed by Judas Iscariot the disciple and apostle, and Jesus was arrested, crucified, buried in a tomb, resurrected, seen by over 500 people, and returned to heaven.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:23, Judges 1:1-2:23, Ruth, 1 Samuel 1:1-3:21, 8:1-31:13, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 10:1-29:30, 2 Chronicles, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26 

Reference Information
penury = hysterematos = husterema/hustereo = deficiency, poverty, lack, need

Reference Scriptures 
The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.-Psalm 110:1

Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, Until I make thy foes thy footstool. Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.-Acts 2:29-36

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.-Hebrews 10:1...For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:-Hebrews 10:4-5...Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.-Hebrews 10:9-13

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Written, Given, Read, and Sung

In the Promised Land, events that occurred after

King David and his fellow Israelites brought

the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the

home of Obed-edom to the City of David:

So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God. And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD. And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to record, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel. Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals; Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.-1 Chronicles 16:1-6

Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.-1 Chronicles 16:7
 

Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people. Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works. Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD. Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually. Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth; O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones. He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth. Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations; Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac; And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant, Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance; When ye were but few, even a  few, and strangers in it. And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people; He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes, Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm. Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation. Declare his glory among the heathen, his marvellous works among all nations. For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens. Glory and honour are in his presence, strength and gladness are in his place. Give unto the LORD, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength. Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved. Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth. Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that is therein. Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever. And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise. Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD.-1 Chronicles 16:8-36

Reference Scriptures

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.-Genesis 1:1

In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed  have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:-Genesis 15:18

And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.-Genesis 28:10...And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;-Genesis 28:12-13

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,-Exodus 25:1...And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.-Exodus 25:10

For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.-Deuteronomy 7:6

And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us: And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we enquired not at it in the days of Saul.-1 Chronicles 13:2-3

The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;-Matthew 1:1-2...And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;-Matthew 1:6...And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.-Matthew 1:16

And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,-Luke 3:23...Which was the the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David,-Luke 3:31...Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor,-Luke 3:34...Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.-Luke 3:38

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Which One(s)

Click the links for the following psalms to

read, and pray and praise along:

Psalm 1    Psalm 2    Psalm 3    Psalm 4    Psalm 5                 

Psalm 6    Psalm 7    Psalm 8    Psalm 9    Psalm 10 

Psalm 11   Psalm 12   Psalm 13   Psalm 14   Psalm 15

Psalm 16   Psalm 17   Psalm 18   Psalm 19   Psalm 20 

Psalm 21   Psalm 22   Psalm 23   Psalm 24   Psalm 25

Psalm 26   Psalm 27   Psalm 28   Psalm 29   Psalm 30

Psalm 31   Psalm 32   Psalm 33   Psalm 34   Psalm 35

Psalm 36   Psalm 37   Psalm 38   Psalm 39   Psalm 40

Psalm 41   Psalm 42              Psalm 44   Psalm 45

Psalm 46   Psalm 47   Psalm 48   Psalm 49   Psalm 50

Psalm 51   Psalm 52   Psalm 53   Psalm 54

Psalm 56   Psalm 57   Psalm 58   Psalm 59   Psalm 60

Psalm 61   Psalm 62   Psalm 63   Psalm 64   Psalm 65

Psalm 66   Psalm 67   Psalm 68   Psalm 69   Psalm 70

Psalm 71              Psalm 73   Psalm 74   Psalm 75

           Psalm 77   Psalm 78   Psalm 79   Psalm 80

Psalm 81              Psalm 83   Psalm 84   Psalm 85

Psalm 86   Psalm 87   Psalm 88   Psalm 89   Psalm 90

Psalm 91   Psalm 92   Psalm 93   Psalm 94   Psalm 95

Psalm 96   Psalm 97   Psalm 98   Psalm 99   Psalm 100

Psalm 101  Psalm 102  Psalm 103  Psalm 104  Psalm 105

Psalm 106  Psalm 107  Psalm 108  Psalm 109  Psalm 110

Psalm 111  Psalm 112  Psalm 113  Psalm 114  Psalm 115    
Psalm 116  Psalm 117  Psalm 118  Psalm 119    Psalm 120

Psalm 121             Psalm 123  Psalm 124   Psalm 125

Psalm 126  Psalm 127  Psalm 128              Psalm 130 

           Psalm 132             Psalm 134   Psalm 135

Psalm 136  Psalm 137  Psalm 138  Psalm 139   Psalm 140

Psalm 141  Psalm 142  Psalm 143  Psalm 144   Psalm 145

Psalm 146  Psalm 147  Psalm 148  Psalm 149            

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