1st Kings Chapter 15 verse 10 Holy Bible
And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
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And he was king for forty-one years in Jerusalem; his mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.
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and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maachah, daughter of Abishalom.
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And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
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And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
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Forty-one years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
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and forty and one years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother `is' Maachah daughter of Abishalom.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem [Corn. a Lapide points out that Ass saw eight kings of Israel on the throne, Jeroboam, Nadab, Baasha, Elah, Zimri, Tibni, Omri, and Ahab]. And his mother's [or grandmother's, as margin] name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. [The same words as in ver. 2, and the reference can hardly be to a different person. Bahr indeed questions whether אֵם can here stand for grandmother, (1) because in every other case it designates the king's mother, (2) Because the mother of the king, and not the grandmother, enjoyed the dignity and position of Gebirah (ver. 13; 2 Chronicles 15:16). Some would read for Abishalom, Uriel of Gibeah; others, strengthened by the Michaiah of 2 Chronicles 13:2, think the historian mistaken in mentioning the name of Abijam's mother (ver. 2; 2 Chronicles 11:21) as Maachah. The difficulty by no means admits of a ready solution, but perhaps the best explanation is that the grandmother, Maachah, Rehoboam's favourite wife, retained her position, possibly by force of character, or because Asa's mother was dead. It is not certain, however, that if the latter had lived she would have displaced Maashah, of whose influence and imperious temper we have several indications; e.g., in the appointment of her son, though not the firstborn, to succeed his father, and in her open maintenance of idol worship, and above all in the fact that she was publicly deposed by Asa.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) His mother's name was Maachah.--Maachah was (see 1Kings 15:2) the wife of Rehoboam, and, therefore, grandmother of Asa. She appears, however, still to have retained the place of "queen-mother," to the exclusion of the real mother of the king.
