Abijam (Hebrew, "father of the sea" or "seaman") or Abijah (Hebrew, "my father is Jehovah") (958-56 BC according to Ussher, or 913-910 BC according to Thiele), was the second king of the Southern Kingdom and immediate successor of Rehoboam. Both I Kings and II Chronicles give the length of his reign as three years. Ussher's dates depend on explicit synchronies with the reign of Jeroboam I of the Northern Kingdom.