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2 Chronicles 11:20 KJV
2 Chronicles · chapter 11 · verse 20
And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.2 Chronicles 11:20 · King James Version
2 Chronicles 11:20 in context
18And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David to wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;
19Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.
20And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
21And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)
22And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to be ruler among his brethren: for he thought to make him king.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- ShelomithShᵉlômîythShelomith, the name of five Israelites and three IsraelitessesH8019 →
- daughterbatha daughterH1323 →
- MaachahMaʻăkâhMaakah , the name of a place in Syria, also of a Mesopotamian, of three Israelites, and…H4601 →
- AbsalomʼĂbîyshâlôwmAbshalom, a son of DavidH53 →
- AbijahʼĂbîyâhAbijah, the name of several Israelite men and two IsraelitessesH29 →
- afterʼacharproperly, the hind partH310 →
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See here, I. How Rehoboam was strengthened by the accession of the priests and Levites, and all the devout and pious Israelites, to him, even all that were true to their God and their religion. 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-23