1-kings 15:2
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. and his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. and his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
For three years he was king in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.
Webster's Revision
Three years he reigned in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
World English Bible
Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
Barnes's 1-kings 15:2 Bible Commentary
Three years - More strictly, not much more than two years (compare 1 Kings 15:1, 1 Kings 15:9). Any part of a year may, however, in Jewish reckoning, be taken as a year.
His mother's name was Maachah - Or Michaiah, according to the present reading of marginal reference.
The daughter of Abishalom - Absalom seems to have had but one daughter, Tamar 2 Samuel 14:27, so that Maachah must have been, not his daughter, but his grand-daughter. Her father (see the margin) was Uriel of Gibeah whom, therefore, Tamar married. Maachah took her name from her great-grandmother 2 Samuel 3:3.
Wesley's 1-kings 15:2 Bible Commentary
15:2 Three years - That is, part of three years. Abishalom - Or, of Absalom, as he is called 2 Chronicles 11:21 . And because he is herementioned as a known person, without any addition of his kindred orquality, some conceive that this was Absalom's daughter, called properlyTamar, 14:27 , and from her royal grandmother, 3:3 ,Maacah.
