"And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name {was} Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. {mother…" — 1 Kings 15:10

1 Kings 15:10 · KJV

“And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name {was} Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. {mother's: that is, grandmother's}”

— 1 Kings 15:10

Verse 9

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

Verse 11

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

1 Kings 15 — Context

And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

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

And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name {was} Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. {mother's: that is, grandmother's}

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

And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Cross References

1 Kings 15:2

Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name {was} Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. {Maachah...: also called, Michaiah the daughter of Uriel} {Abishalom: also called, Absalom}

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. {Maachah: she is also called Michaiah the daughter of Uriel}

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. {destroyed: Heb. cut off}

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.

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