John Gill's Exposition on Matthew 1:7

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Solomon begat Roboam, etc.] Called Rehoboam, (<111143>1 Kings 11:43) of Naamah an Ammonitess, (<111421>1 Kings 14:21,31). And Roboam begat Abia, sometimes called Abijam, as in (<111431>1 Kings 14:31), sometimes Abijah, (<141216>2 Chronicles 12:16) and sometimes, as here, Abia, (<130310>1 Chronicles 3:10). Him Rehoboam begat of Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom, (<111502>1 Kings 15:2) called Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel, (<141302>2 Chronicles 13:2). Maachah and Michaiah being the same name; or else she went by two names, as her father did. And Abia begat Asa, who was a good king; his mother’s name is the same with the name of his father’s mother; and perhaps it is not his proper mother, but his grandmother who is meant in (<111510>1 Kings 15:10). He is wrongly called Asaph in the Persic and Ethiopic versions, and in one copy.

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