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REGNAL FORMULA

Bill T. Arnold and Bryan E. Beyer, Encountering the Old Testament (Grand Rapids:  Baker, 1998), 223. 

 

  1. Introductory Sentences
    1. Synchronistic Statement

“In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeraboam son of Nebat, Abijah became king of Judah” (1 Kgs 15:1).

 

    1. Age and/or Length of Reign

“He [Abijah] reigned in Jerusalem three years” (1 Kgs 15:2b).

 

    1. Matriarchal Reference

“His mother’s name was Maach daughter of Abishalom” (1 Kgs 15:2b).

 

  1. Evaluation Sentence

“He committed all the sins his father had done before him; his heart was not fully devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his forefather had been” (1 Kgs 15:3).

 

  1. Chronicles Reference

“As for the other events of Abijah’s reign, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the annals fo the kings of Judah?” (1 Kgs 15:7).

 

  1. Death, Burial, and Successor Accounts

“And Abijah rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.  And Asa his son succeeded him as king” (1 Kga 15:8).

 

 

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