1 Reyes 15:2

2 y reinó en Jerusalén tres años. Su madre era Macá hija de Abisalón.

1 Reyes 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 Reyes 15:2 In-Context

1 En el año dieciocho del reinado de Jeroboán hijo de Nabat, Abías ascendió al trono de Judá,

2 y reinó en Jerusalén tres años. Su madre era Macá hija de Abisalón.

3 Abías cometió todos los pecados que, antes de él, había cometido su padre, pues no siempre fue fiel al SEÑOR su Dios como lo había sido su antepasado David.

4 No obstante, por consideración a David, el SEÑOR su Dios mantuvo la lámpara de David encendida en Jerusalén, dándole un hijo que lo sucediera, para fortalecer así a Jerusalén.

5 Porque David había hecho lo que agrada al SEÑOR, y en toda su vida no había dejado de cumplir ninguno de los mandamientos del Señor, excepto en el caso de Urías el hitita.