1 Kings 15:2
He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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 King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah.
Cross References
1 Kings 15:10He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kings 22:42Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
2 Chronicles 13:2He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. There was war between Abijah 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 →