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1 Kings 15:2
1 Kings 15:2 is verse 2 of 1 Kings chapter 15, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.
Abishalom is a variant of Absalom; also in verse 10; see 2 Chronicles 11:20.
King James Version
Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
World English Bible
He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
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1 Kings 15:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible
1 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam became king of Judah,
2 and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.
3 And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.
4 Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and to make Jerusalem strong.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Kings 15:13He 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.
2 Chronicles 11:20After her, he married Maacah daughter of Absalom, and she bore to him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.
2 Chronicles 11:21Rehoboam 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.
2 Chronicles 11:22Rehoboam appointed Abijah son of Maacah as chief prince among his brothers, intending to make him king.
2 Chronicles 13:2and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Micaiah daughter of Uriel; she was from Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.