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

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother's name was Maakah daughter of Abishalom.

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

New American Standard Bible
He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

King James Bible
Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
and reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

International Standard Version
He reigned for 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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He reigned three years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Maacha the daughter of Abessalom.

Darby Bible 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;

Cross References

1 Kings 15:10
And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

2 Chronicles 11:20
And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bore him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

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 three score concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and three score daughters.)

2 Chronicles 13:1
Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.

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.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

15:1-8 Abijam's heart was not perfect with the Lord his God; he wanted sincerity; he began well, but he fell off, and walked in all the sins of his father, following his bad example, though he had seen the bad consequences of it. David's family was continued as a lamp in Jerusalem, to maintain the true worship of God there, when the light of Divine truth was extinguished in all other places. The Lord has still taken care of his cause, while those who ought to have been serviceable thereto have lived and perished in their sins. The Son of David will still continue a light to his church, to establish it in truth and righteousness to the end of time. There are two kinds of fulfilling the law, one legal, the other by the gospel. Legal is, when men do all things required in the law, and that by themselves. None ever thus fulfilled the law but Christ, and Adam before his fall. The gospel manner of fulfilling the law is, to believe in Christ who fulfilled the law for us, and to endeavour in the whole man to obey God in all his precepts. And this is accepted of God, as to all those that are in Christ. Thus David and others are said to fulfil the law.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

2. Three years reigned he—(compare 1Ki 15:1 with 1Ki 15:9). Parts of years are often counted in Scripture as whole years. The reign began in Jeroboam's eighteenth year, continued till the nineteenth, and ended in the course of the twentieth.

his mother's name was Maachah—or Michaiah (2Ch 13:2), probably altered from the one to the other on her becoming queen, as was very common under a change of circumstances. She is called the daughter of Abishalom, or Absalom (2Ch 11:21), of Uriel (2Ch 13:2). Hence, it has been thought probable that Tamar, the daughter of Absalom (2Sa 14:27; 18:18), had been married to Uriel, and that Maachah was their daughter.