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He reigned three years in Jerusalem, and his mother's [queen mother's] name was Maacah, the daughter of Avishalom. [In her name is spelled Mikaja.]
He reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years, and the name of his grandmother (mother/grandmother – Hebr. im) [name of the queen mother; Abijah's mother, see ] was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.
Yes, he even deposed his grandmother [mother/grandmother] Maacha from her position as queen mother, because she had done an abomination, an Asherah [pole for idol worship]. And Asa cut down her idol and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
After her, he took Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, as his wife. She bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.
And Rehoboam loved Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, more than all his other wives and concubines. He had taken 18 wives and 60 concubines, and he became the father of 28 sons and 60 daughters.
Rehoboam appointed Abijah, Maacah's son, as leader among his brothers, because he intended to make him king.
and he reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah [Maacha, see ], the daughter of Uriel, of Gibeah.
Abijam [2nd ruler of the Southern Kingdom] and Jeroboam [1st king of the Northern Kingdom] were at war with each other.
King Asa also removed his grandmother (mother/grandmother – Hebr. im) Maacah from her position as queen mother, because she had set up an idol for Asherah. Asa cut down her idol, smashed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
