Bible Person
Meaning: the Lord is my father · Male · 2 cross references
Abiah is the son of Samuel appointed alongside his brother Joel as a judge in Beersheba. He belongs to the difficult final stage of Samuel's household story, where inherited office does not produce inherited faithfulness. First appears in 1 Sam 8:2.1
AI summary: Abiah matters because the cross references place him at the immediate cause of Israel's demand for a king. His corrupt judging, together with that of his brother, exposes the failure of dynastic expectation even within Samuel's own family. Taken together, the material presents Abiah as a cautionary figure whose misuse of office helps trigger the political transition from judges to monarchy.1
Central Figure
Abiah
Meaning: the Lord is my father
The second son of Samuel (1 Sam.
The second son of Samuel (1 Sam. 8:2; 1 Chr. 6:28). His conduct, along with that of his brother, as a judge in Beer-sheba, to which office his father had appointed him, led to popular discontent, and ultimately provoked the people to demand a royal form of government. 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.