Maacah (1Ki 15:2)
Daughter of Uriel and Tamar, in the united monarchy of Israel. Named in scripture at 1 Kings 15:2.
What we know — and how we know it
Where in scripture
1 Kings2 ChroniclesHe reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kings 15:2
He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kings 15:10
He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah. Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.
1 Kings 15:13
After her, he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.
2 Chronicles 11:20
Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
2 Chronicles 11:21
Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, the prince among his brothers; for he intended to make him king.
2 Chronicles 11:22
He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
2 Chronicles 13:2
Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; so Asa cut down her image, ground it into dust, and burned it at the brook Kidron.
2 Chronicles 15:16
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.
