John Gill's Exposition on 1 Kings 15:2

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Three years reigned he in Jerusalem, etc.] And three only; his reign was short, and indeed not three full years, only one whole year and part of two others; for Asa his son began to reign in the twentieth of Jeroboam, (<111509>1 Kings 15:9) so that he reigned part of his eighteenth, this whole nineteenth, and part of his twentieth: and his mother’s name was Maachah the daughter of Abishalom; called Absalom, (<141120>2 Chronicles 11:20,21), generally supposed by the Jews to be Absalom the son of David, and which may seem not improbable, since his other two wives were of his father’s family, (<141118>2 Chronicles 11:18). Josephus says f340 she was the daughter of Tamar the daughter of Absalom, and so his granddaughter; and which may account for her being called Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah, (<141302>2 Chronicles 13:2) since the difference between Maachah and Michaiah is not very great; and Uriel might he the name of Tamar’s husband; though it is most likely that both father and daughter had two names; she seems to be mentioned here, to observe that she was the cause and means of her son’s disagreeable walk, as follows, (see <111513>1 Kings 15:13).

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