He reigned three years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
KJV
Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. and his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
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Three years reigned he in Jerusalem,.... And three only; his reign was short, and indeed not three full years, only one whole year and part of two others; for Asa his son began to reign in the twentieth of Jeroboam,
Kg1 15:9
so that he reigned part of his eighteenth, this whole nineteenth, and part of his twentieth:
and his mother's name was Maachah the daughter of Abishalom; called Absalom,
Ch2 11:20
, generally supposed by the Jews to be Absalom the son of David, and which may seem not improbable, since his other two wives were of his father's family,
Ch2 11:18
. Josephus says (q) she was the daughter of Tamar the daughter of Absalom, and so his granddaughter; and which may account for her being called Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah,
Ch2 13:2
since the difference between Maachah and Michaiah is not very great; and Uriel might he the name of Tamar's husband; though it is most likely that both father and daughter had two names; she seems to be mentioned here, to observe that she was the cause and means of her son's disagreeable walk, as follows, see
Kg1 15:13
.
(q) Antiqu. l. 8. c. 10. sect. 1.
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