1 Re 15:2

2 Regnò tre anni in Gerusalemme. Sua madre si chiamava Maaca, figliuola di Abishalom.

1 Re 15:2 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 15:2

Three years reigned he in Jerusalem
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, ( 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, ( 2 Chronicles 11:20 2 Chronicles 11:21 ) , 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, ( 2 Chronicles 11:18 ) . Josephus says ^F17 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, ( 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 ( 1 Kings 15:13 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 Antiqu. l. 8. c. 10. sect. 1.

1 Re 15:2 In-Context

1 Il diciottesimo anno del regno di Geroboamo, figliuolo di Nebat, Abijam cominciò a regnare sopra Giuda.

2 Regnò tre anni in Gerusalemme. Sua madre si chiamava Maaca, figliuola di Abishalom.

3 Egli s’abbandonò a tutti i peccati che suo padre avea commessi prima di lui, e il suo cuore non fu tutto quanto per l’Eterno, l’Iddio suo, com’era stato il cuore di Davide suo padre.

4 Nondimeno, per amor di Davide, l’Eterno, il suo Dio, gli lasciò una lampada a Gerusalemme, stabilendo dopo di lui il suo figliuolo, e lasciando sussistere Gerusalemme;

5 perché Davide avea fatto ciò ch’è giusto agli occhi dell’Eterno, e non si era scostato in nulla dai suoi comandamenti per tutto il tempo della sua vita, salvo nel fatto di Uria, lo Hitteo.