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Maacah, also known as Micaiah, the daughter of Abishalom (Absalom), was the wife of Rehoboam and mother of Abijah, king of Judah.
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Maacah, also referred to as Micaiah, was the daughter of Abishalom (likely Absalom, the son of David) and the wife of King Rehoboam of Judah (1Ki.15.2; 2Ch.11.20-21). She was the mother of Abijah, who succeeded Rehoboam as king (1Ki.15.2; 2Ch.11.22; 13.2). Maacah held the influential position of queen mother during the reigns of Rehoboam and Abijah. However, she was removed from this role by her grandson, King Asa, because she had made an obscene image of Asherah (1Ki.15.13; 2Ch.15.16). Maacah's story illustrates the political significance of the queen mother in the Judean monarchy and the religious reforms undertaken by King Asa to purge idolatry from the land.
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8 verses in 2 books · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H4601
and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His motherʼs name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.
and he reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years. His grandmotherʼs 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.
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 motherʼs 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.
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