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Chapter 13

Abijah and Jeroboam Go to War. In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king of Judah. He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Micaiah, the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah.

When war broke out between Abijah and Jeroboam,[a] Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 13:2 In 2 Chr 11:20 Maacah is the daughter of Absalom. Perhaps an error has crept into the text, but this explanation is not necessary. The Hebrew has no special word for grandfather/mother and grandson/daughter; instead it says “father of the father” or “son of the son” and often says simply “father” and “son.” In any case, Maacah was not the daughter of Absalom, because we know that he had only one daughter, Tamar (2 Sam 14:27). In keeping with the same idiom, “mother” in 2 Chr 15:16 means “grandmother.”