Queen Maacah was the wife and cousin of King Rehoboam (r. 931-913 BC), the mother of King Abijam (r. 913-910 BC), grandmother of King Asa (r. 910-869 BC).
She was the granddaughter of Absalom (son of King David), and the daughter of the Levite priest Uriel from Gibeah.
Her husband, Rehoboam (r. 931-913 BC), whose mother was Queen Namaah, was the first king of the Kingdom of Judah. His father, King Solomon, son of David and Bathsheba, reigned as the last king of the United Kingdom of Israel (c. 971-931 BC)... before the division.
King Solomon built the second Temple in Israel with specific instructions from King David. He had a son, Menelik I, with Makeda, queen of Sheba, of the ancient Axumite Kingdom, a trading nation in the area of northern Ethiopia and Eritrea.
In all, King Rehoboam had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and they gave birth to twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
Queen Maacah gave birth to Abijam, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith. Rehoboam appointed their son Abijam as leader among the princes, making it clear that he would succeed him as the next king of Judah.
When Rehoboam died, he was buried among his ancestors in the City of David. He reigned 17 years in Jerusalem. Their son Abijam became the next king of the Kingdom of Judah.
King Abijam began to rule over Judah in the eighteenth year of Jeroboam’s reign in Israel (c. 931-910 BC). Abijam reigned in Jerusalem three years.
There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam throughout Abijam’s reign. War broke out between King Abijam and King Jeroboam in the mountains of Ephraim. Judah, led by King Abijam, fielded 400,000 warriors, while Jeroboam mustered 800,000 troops from Israel.
King Abijam’s son, Asa, began to rule over Judah in the twentieth year of King Jeroboam’s reign in the Kingdom of Israel (931-910 BC). King Asa reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years.
King Asa deposed his grandmother, Maacah, from her position as queen mother for worshipping idols… she had made an Asherah pole. He cut down her pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
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Like this post? Stop by and read “Queen Namaah: Wife of King Solomon and Mother of King Rehoboam.” She was an Ammonite, a people whose patriarch was Lot’s son, Ben-’Ammī. Her son Rehoboam (r. 931-913 BC) became king of the Kingdom of Judah.
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