1 Kings 15:2

Abijam Reigns in Judah

1 ^aIn the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah.

2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. ^aHis mother’s name was ^bMaachah the granddaughter of ^cAbishalom.

3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; ^ahis heart was not loyal to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.

4 Nevertheless ^afor David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, by setting up his son after him and by establishing Jerusalem;

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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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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