Abijah (queen)

{{Infobox royalty

| name = Abijah

| succession = Queen consort of Judea

| reign = c.732 – 716 BCE

| spouse = Ahaz

| issue = Hezekiah

| father = Zachariah

}}

Abijah is a person named in the Old Testament. She was the daughter of a Zachariah, possibly Zachariah the son of Jeberechiah (2 Chronicles 29:1; compare Book of Isaiah 8:2), and afterwards the wife of King Ahaz{{cite Q|Q115281590)}} (reigned c. 732 - 716 BCE) and mother of King Hezekiah (reigned c. 715-686 BCE). She is also called Abi (2 Kings 18:2).

Some writers{{cite book|last=Whittaker|first=Harry|url=http://andrewstyles.net/Isaiah%20by%20Harry%20Whitakker.pdf|title=Isaiah|publisher=Biblia Books|year=1988|location=Cannock, Staffordshire}}{{Dead link|date=July 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite journal |last=Hammershaimb |first=Erling |date=1949 |title=The Immanuel Sign |journal=Studia Theologica |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=124–42 |doi=10.1080/00393384908599686}}{{cite book|last=Lindblom|first=Johannes|title=A study on the Immanuel section in Isaiah: Isa. vii,1–ix,6|publisher=Lund|year=1958}} consider Abijah to be the almah or "young woman" (at the time of the prophecy) in the Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah 7:14, and that the child who will be an infant when Rezin and Pekah are defeated by Tiglath-Pileser III (reigned 745–727 BCE) may be the future heir, Hezekiah.