Abijah (5)

5. ABIJAH, King of the Parthians, who made war with Izates, King of the Adiabenians, at the Sollicitation of the Grandees of his Kingdom, who were in Arms against him, because he had embraced the Jewish Religion. Abijah was routed, and compell’d to shut himself up in a Castle, where he was so much straiten’d, that in despair he killed himself, to prevent his falling into the Enemy’s Hands¹.

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