◄ 2 Chronicles 11:20 ►
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New International Version
Then he married Maakah daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza and Shelomith.

New Living Translation
Later Rehoboam married another cousin, Maacah, the granddaughter of Absalom. Maacah gave birth to Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

English Standard Version
After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

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

King James Bible
And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

New King James Version
After her he took Maachah the granddaughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

New American Standard Bible
After her he married Maacah the daughter of Absalom, and she bore to him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

NASB 1995
After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom, and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza and Shelomith.

NASB 1977
And after her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom, and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

Legacy Standard Bible
And after her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom, and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

Amplified Bible
After her he took Maacah the daughter (granddaughter) of Absalom, and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

Christian Standard Bible
After her, he married Maacah daughter of Absalom. She bore Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith to him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
After her, he married Maacah daughter of Absalom. She bore Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith to him.

American Standard Version
And after her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

Contemporary English Version
Then Rehoboam married Maacah the daughter of Absalom. Their sons were Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

English Revised Version
And after her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
After marrying Mahalath, he married Maacah, Absalom's granddaughter. She gave birth to Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

Good News Translation
Later he married Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, and they had four sons: Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

International Standard Version
After this he married Absalom's daughter Maacah, who bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

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

NET Bible
He later married Maacah the daughter of Absalom. She bore to him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

New Heart English Bible
After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

Webster's Bible Translation
And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; who bore him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

World English Bible
After her, he took Maacah the granddaughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And after her he has taken Maachah daughter of Absalom, and she bears to him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

Young's Literal Translation
And after her he hath taken Maachah daughter of Absalom, and she beareth to him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

Smith's Literal Translation
And after her he took Maacah, daughter of Absalom; and she will bear to him Abijah and Attai, and Ziza and Shelomith.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And after her he married Maacha the daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abia and Ethai, and Ziza, and Salomith.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And also after her, he married Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, who bore for him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

New American Bible
After her, he married Maacah, daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

New Revised Standard Version
After her he took Maacah daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom, which bore him Abijah and Attai and Ziza and Shelomith.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And after her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And afterwards he took to himself Maacha the daughter of Abessalom; and she bore him Abia, and Jetthi, and Zeza, and Salemoth.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Rehoboam's Family
…19She bore sons to him: Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham. 20After her, he married Maacah daughter of Absalom, and she bore to him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith. 21Rehoboam 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.…
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Cross References
1 Kings 11:19-20
There Hadad found such great favor in the sight of Pharaoh that he gave to him in marriage the sister of Queen Tahpenes, his own wife. / And the sister of Tahpenes bore Hadad a son named Genubath. Tahpenes herself weaned him in Pharaoh’s palace, and Genubath lived there among the sons of Pharaoh.

1 Kings 14:21
Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

2 Chronicles 12:13
Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem and reigned. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

1 Kings 11:43
And Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. And his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.

1 Kings 12:21-24
And when Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the whole house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against the house of Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon. / But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God: / “Tell Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and the rest of the people ...

2 Chronicles 13:2
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.

1 Kings 15:2
and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

2 Chronicles 11:18-19
And Rehoboam married Mahalath, who was the daughter of David’s son Jerimoth and of Abihail, the daughter of Jesse’s son Eliab. / She bore sons to him: Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.

2 Chronicles 21:6
And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 22:2
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.

Matthew 1:7
Solomon the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asa.

Matthew 1:1-17
This is the record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham: / Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers. / Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram. ...

Luke 3:31-32
the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David, / the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Sala, the son of Nahshon,

1 Kings 14:31
And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David; his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. And his son Abijam reigned in his place.

1 Kings 15:9-10
In the twentieth year of Jeroboam’s reign over Israel, Asa became king of Judah, / and he reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years. His grandmother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.


Treasury of Scripture

And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bore him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

Maachah

2 Chronicles 11:21
And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)

2 Chronicles 13:2
He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

Michaiah the daughter of Uriel

1 Kings 15:2
Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

Abishalom

2 Chronicles 12:16
And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

1 Kings 15:1
Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.

Abijam

Matthew 1:7
And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;

Abia

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2 Chronicles 11
1. Rehoboam raising an army to subdue Israel, is forbidden by Shemaiah
5. He strengthens his kingdom with forts and provisions
13. The priests and Levites, and such as feared God, forsaken by Jeroboam,
17. strengthen the kingdom of Judah
18. The wives and children of Rehoboam














Berean Study Bible
After her
This phrase indicates a sequence of events, suggesting that Rehoboam, the king of Judah, took another wife following his marriage to Mahalath. The practice of polygamy was common among kings in the ancient Near East, often for political alliances or to ensure a large progeny. This reflects the cultural and historical context of the time, where royal marriages were strategic.

he married Maacah
The act of marriage here is significant, as it denotes a formal union. Maacah is identified as a key figure in Rehoboam's life. Her name, meaning "oppression" or "depression" in Hebrew, might reflect her influence or the circumstances surrounding her life. Marriages in biblical times often had profound implications for political and familial alliances.

daughter of Absalom
This phrase highlights Maacah's lineage, linking her to Absalom, the son of King David. Absalom is a notable biblical figure known for his rebellion against his father, David. This connection to David's family underscores the intertwining of royal bloodlines and the continuation of Davidic influence in Judah.

and she bore him
This phrase signifies the fulfillment of one of the primary purposes of marriage in ancient times: procreation. Bearing children was crucial for the continuation of a family line, especially in royal families where succession was a key concern.

Abijah
Abijah, whose name means "Yahweh is my father," would later become a king of Judah. His name reflects a theophoric element, indicating the religious devotion expected of a king in the Davidic line. Abijah's future reign is marked by both faithfulness and failure, illustrating the complexities of leadership in a covenantal context.

Attai
Little is known about Attai, but his inclusion in the genealogy signifies his importance in the family structure. His name, meaning "timely" or "my time," may suggest a sense of destiny or purpose within the family narrative.

Ziza
The name Ziza, meaning "splendor" or "brightness," could reflect the hope or aspirations placed upon him by his family. Names in the biblical context often carried prophetic or aspirational significance, indicating the desires of the parents for their children.

and Shelomith
Shelomith, a name meaning "peaceful" or "peace," is indicative of the values cherished by the family. Peace was a highly valued state in the turbulent times of the ancient Near East, and naming a child Shelomith could reflect a desire for stability and harmony within the family and the kingdom.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
(20) Maachah the daughter of Absalom--i.e., granddaughter, as appears from 2Samuel 14:27, where Tamar is named as the "one daughter" of Absalom Josephus says Maachah was daughter of Tamar (Ant 8:10, 1). (Comp. 2Samuel 18:18; 2Chronicles 13:2; 1Kings 15:10.)

Which bare him Abijah.--Rehoboam's successor, called "Abijam" in Kings. The other three are unknown.

Pulpit Commentary
Verse 20. - Maachah was the granddaughter of Absalom by his daughter Tamar, wife of Uriel (2 Chronicles 13:2; 2 Kings 15:2).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
After her,
וְאַחֲרֶ֣יהָ (wə·’a·ḥă·re·hā)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's 310: The hind or following part

he married
לָקַ֔ח (lā·qaḥ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

Maacah
מַעֲכָ֖ה (ma·‘ă·ḵāh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4601: Maacah -- an Israelite name, also a non-Israelite name, also a region in Syria

daughter
בַּת־ (baṯ-)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 1323: A daughter

of Absalom,
אַבְשָׁל֑וֹם (’aḇ·šā·lō·wm)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 53: Absalom -- 'my father is peace', two Israelites

and she bore
וַתֵּ֣לֶד (wat·tê·leḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

to him
ל֗וֹ (lōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

Abijah,
אֲבִיָּה֙ (’ă·ḇî·yāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 29: Abijah -- 'Yah is my father', an Israelite name

Attai,
עַתַּ֔י (‘at·tay)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 6262: Attai -- three Israelites

Ziza,
זִיזָ֖א (zî·zā)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 2124: Ziza -- two Israelites

and Shelomith.
שְׁלֹמִֽית׃ (šə·lō·mîṯ)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 8019: Shelomith -- the name of several Israelites


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