This document is about Maacah (Rehoboam's_wife). For other homonyms, please refer to the Maacah document. Maacah (Maacah, Rehoboam's wife) is the daughter of Absalom. She married Rehoboam, son of Solomon, and gave birth to King Abijam. For reference, Absalom's mother's name was also Maacah. In other words, the grandmother and granddaughter have the same name. See Maacah (David's wife).
2 Chronicles 11:20Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.2 Chronicles 11:21Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, the prince among his brothers; for he intended to make him king.2 Chronicles 11:22He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city. He gave them food in abundance and he sought many wives for them.
1 Kings 15:1He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.1 Kings 15:2He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.1 Kings 15:3Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem), to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;1 Kings 15:4because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.1 Kings 15:5Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.1 Kings 15:6The rest of the acts of Abijam), and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.1 Kings 15:7Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in David’s city; and Asa his son reigned in his place.1 Kings 15:8In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah.1 Kings 15:9He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.1 Kings 15:10Asa did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, as David his father did.
2 Samuel 14:27Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, and he didn’t see the king’s face.
또한 역대하 13장에서는 이 아비얌 왕의 어머니가 미가야라고 기록되었다.
2 Chronicles 13:2Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men; and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valor.
이를 통해 유추해보건대, 다말이 우리엘과 결혼하여 낳은 딸이 이 마아가 혹은 미가야인 것으로 추측된다.
그녀는 아세라 목상을 만들어 우상숭배를 드렸다. 아들 아비얌이 죽은 후 손자 아사왕이 즉위하여 영적 개혁운동을 벌였는데 우상숭배의 죄로 인하여 태후의 자리에서 폐위되었다.
1 Kings 15:9He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.1 Kings 15:10Asa did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, as David his father did.1 Kings 15:11He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.1 Kings 15:12He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah. Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.1 Kings 15:13But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.
2 Chronicles 15:16But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.