Verse 2

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

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  • 2 Chr 13:2 : 2 He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Micaiah, the daughter of Uriel from Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
  • 1 Kgs 15:13 : 13 He also removed his mother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a repulsive image for Asherah. Asa cut down her idol and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
  • 2 Chr 11:20-22 : 20 After her, he married Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith. 21 Rehoboam loved Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, more than all his other wives and concubines. He had married eighteen wives and had sixty concubines, and he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters. 22 Rehoboam appointed Abijah, son of Maacah, as the chief and leader among his brothers, intending to make him king.