1 Kings 15 · Verse 10

1 Kings 15:10

And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kings 15:10, King James Version

1 Kings 15:10 in other translations

BSBand he reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years. His grandmother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.
WEBHe reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
ASVAnd forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
YLTand forty and one years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother is Maachah daughter of Abishalom.
DARBYand he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maachah, daughter of Abishalom.
BBEAnd he was king for forty-one years in Jerusalem; his mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.
WebsterAnd forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

What does 1 Kings 15:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Kings 15:10-13
10-13. his mother's name was Maachah--She was properly his grandmother, and she is here called "the king's mother," from the post of dignity which at the beginning of his reign she possessed. Asa, as a constitutional monarch, acted like the pious David, laboring to abolish the traces and polluting practices of idolatry, and in pursuance of his impartial conduct, he did not spare delinquents even of the highest rank.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 His mother's name - Our translators thought that grandmother was likely to be the meaning, and therefore have put it in the margin. The daughter of Abishalom - She is called, says Calmet, the daughter of Absalom, according to the custom of the Scriptures, which give the name of daughter indifferently to the niece, the grand-daughter, and great grand-daughter.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 15:9-24

Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. That is right indeed which is so in God's eyes. Asa's times were times of reformation. He removed that which was evil; there reformation begins, and a great deal he found to do. When Asa found idolatry in the court, he rooted it out thence. Reformation must begin at home. Asa honours and respects his mother; he loves her well, but he loves God better. Those that have…

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1 Kings 15:10 in the original Hebrew

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וְאַרְבָּעִ֤יםve.'ar.ba.'Imand fortyH705
וְאַחַת֙ve.'a.Chatand oneH259
שָׁנָ֔הsha.Nahyear[s]H8141
מָלַ֖ךְma.Lakhhe reignedH4427
בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑םbi.ru.sha.Limin JerusalemH3389
וְשֵׁ֣םve.Shemand [the] name ofH8034
אִמּ֔וֹ'i.Momother hisH517
מַעֲכָ֖הma.'a.Khah[was] MaacahH4601
בַּת\־bat-[the] daughter ofH1323
אֲבִישָׁלֽוֹם\׃'a.vi.sha.LomAbishalomH53

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 1 Kings 15:10

  • 1 Kings 15:2

    Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

  • 2 Chronicles 11:20-21

    And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith. And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)

  • 2 Chronicles 13:2

    He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

  • 1 Kings 15:13

    And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A.M. 3049-3090. B.C. 955-914. mother's. that is,grandmother's.
2,13; 2Ch 11:20,21; 13:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 1 Kings 15:9

    And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.

  • 1 Kings 15:10

    And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

  • 1 Kings 15:11

    And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his father.

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1 Kings 15:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y reinó cuarenta y un años en Jerusalem; el nombre de su madre fué Maachâ, hija de Abisalom.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
et il régna 41 ans à Jérusalem; et le nom de sa mère était Maaca, fille d’Abishalom.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und er regierte 41 Jahre zu Jerusalem; und der Name seiner Mutter war Maaka, die Tochter Absaloms.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
et quadraginta et uno anno regnavit in Jerusalem. Nomen matris ejus Maacha filia Abessalom.