Daughter of King David's son Absalom, wife of King Rehoboam, and mother of King Abijam (Abijah), Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.
About Maacah
Maacah (also spelled Maachah in the King James Version) was a common Hebrew name in the Old Testament. Several people had this name.
The last of four children born to Nahor, Abraham’s brother, and Reumah, his concubine (Genesis 22:24).
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and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.
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.
After her, he married Maacah daughter of Absalom, and she bore to him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.
All Scripture References (8)
1 Kings (3)
and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.
and he reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years. His grandmother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.
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 (5)
After her, he married Maacah daughter of Absalom, and she bore to him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.
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.
Rehoboam appointed Abijah son of Maacah as chief prince among his brothers, intending to make him king.
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.
King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.