1 Kings 15:2 “and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Maacah…”

1 Kings 15:2

and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

World English Bible

He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

American Standard Version

Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

Geneva Bible 1599

Three yeere reigned hee in Ierusalem, and his mothers name was Maachah the daughter of Abishalom.

Darby Translation

He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maachah, a daughter of Abishalom.

Young's Literal Translation

three years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Maachah daughter of Abishalom;

Bible in Basic English

For three years he was king in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.

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Cross references

“his mother's”

1 Kings 15:13 2 Chronicles 11:20–22

1 Kings 15:13 · BSB

He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

2 Chronicles 11:20–22 · BSB

After her, he married Maacah daughter of Absalom, and she bore to him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

“Maachah”

2 Chronicles 13:2

2 Chronicles 13:2 · BSB

and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Micaiah daughter of Uriel; she was from Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

“Michaiah the daughter of Uriel”

2 Chronicles 11:21

2 Chronicles 11:21 · BSB

Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam became king of Judah,

3And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.

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