Commentaries:Barnes' Notes
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1 Kings 15:2
Three years - More strictly, not much more than two years (compare I Kings 15:1, I Kings 15:9). Any part of a year may, however, in Jewish reckoning, be taken as a year.
His mother' s name was Maachah - Or Michaiah, according to the present reading of marginal reference.
The daughter of Abishalom - Absalom seems to have had but one daughter, Tamar II Samuel 14:27, so that Maachah must have been, not his daughter, but his grand-daughter. Her father (see the margin) was Uriel of Gibeah whom, therefore, Tamar married. Maachah took her name from her great-grandmother II Samuel 3:3.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Kings 15:2:
2 Samuel 14:27
1 Kings 15:10
2 Chronicles 11:20
2 Chronicles 13:2
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