1 Kings 15:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Three years. Not full years, for he died in the twentieth year of Jeroboam (1 Kings 15:9).

mother's. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Genus) for ancestor. Here. grandmother. Maachah, or Michaiah (2 Chronicles 13:2). Abishalom. Absalom (2 Chronicles 11:21).

1 Kings 15:2

2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah,a the daughter of Abishalom.