1 Kings 15:2
He reigned three years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Maacha the daughter of Abessalom.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
In Context
1Now in the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, Abiam reigned over Juda.
Cross References
1 Kings 15:10And he reigned one end forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacha, the daughter of Abessalom.
1 Kings 22:42He was five and thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned five and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Azuba the daughter of Salai.
2 Chronicles 13:2Three years he reigned in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Michaia, the daughter of Uriel of Gabaa: and there was war between Abia and Jeroboam.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 15:2-9
Abijam's Reign. ( b. c. 958.) 1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah. 2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. 3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father. 4 Nevertheless for David's sake did the Lord his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish… Read the whole commentary →