1 Kings 15:2
Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kings 15:2 in other translations
| BSB | and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom. |
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| WEB | He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. |
| ASV | Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. |
| YLT | three years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother is Maachah daughter of Abishalom; |
| DARBY | He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maachah, a daughter of Abishalom. |
| BBE | For three years he was king in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom. |
| Webster | Three years he reigned in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. |
What does 1 Kings 15:2 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 15:1-8
Abijam's heart was not perfect with the Lord his God; he wanted sincerity; he began well, but he fell off, and walked in all the sins of his father, following his bad example, though he had seen the bad consequences of it. David's family was continued as a lamp in Jerusalem, to maintain the true worship of God there, when the light of Divine truth was extinguished in all other places. The Lord has still taken care…
1 Kings 15:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Kings 15:2
- 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.
- 2 Chronicles 11:20-22
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.) And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to be ruler among his brethren: for he thought to make him king.
- 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
13; 2Ch 11:20-22
Maachah.
2Ch 13:2
Michaiah the daughter of Uriel. Abishalom.
2Ch 11:21
Absalom.
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Context
- 1 Kings 15:1
Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.
- 1 Kings 15:2
Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
- 1 Kings 15:3
And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.
1 Kings 15:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Reinó tres años en Jerusalem. El nombre de su madre fué Maachâ, hija de Abisalom. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il régna trois ans à Jérusalem; et le nom de sa mère était Maaca, fille d’Abishalom. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Er regierte drei Jahre zu Jerusalem; und der Name seiner Mutter war Maaka, die Tochter Absaloms. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Tribus annis regnavit in Jerusalem: nomen matris ejus Maacha filia Abessalom. |