2 Chronicles 13:2

2Ch 13:2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also [was] Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

Ver. 2. His mother’s name was Michaiah.] Alias Maachah. See on 2Ch 11:21-22.

And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.] Like as there had been between Rehoboam and Jeroboam. So the dissension betwixt England and Scotland, which consumed more Christian blood, wrought more spoil and destruction, and continued longer, than ever quarrel we read of did between any two people in the world.

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2Ch 13:2. His mother’s name was Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel —

Called Maachah, the daughter of Absalom, 1Ki 15:2. She might be daughter to one, and grand-daughter to the other: or the proper and natural daughter of the one, and the other’s daughter by adoption.

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13:2-3 The ongoing conflict between Rehoboam and Jeroboam (see 12:15) carried into the reign of Abijah. Abijah might have been attempting to reunite north and south, as is suggested by his speech (13:5-12). The large numbers of soldiers on each side correspond approximately to David’s census (2 Sam 24:9); Israel’s double number of soldiers magnifies God’s intervention on behalf of Judah (2 Chr 13:14-19).

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Or, Maachah, 1 Kings 15:2.

Called also Abishalom, for Abishalom was her grandfather, 1 Kings 15:2.

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Verse 2. His mother's name - was Michaiah] See on 2Ch 11:20.

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(2) His mother’s name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah.—Kings reads for the names “Maachah the daughter of Abishalom”; and as the chronicler has himself already designated Abijah as son of Maachah, daughter of Absalom (2Ch_11:20-22), there can be no doubt that this is correct, and that “Michaiah,” which is elsewhere a man’s name, is a corruption of Maachah. This is confirmed by the LXX., Syriac, and Arabic, which read Maachah. As we have already stated (2Ch_11:20), Maachah was granddaughter to Absalom, being a daughter of Tamar the only daughter of Absalom. Uriel of Gibeah, then, must have been the husband of Tamar. (See on 2Ch_15:16. Uriel of Gibeah is otherwise unknown.)

And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.—Now war had arisen. See 1Ki_15:6. “Now war had prevailed [same verb] between Abijam [common Hebrew text incorrectly has Rehoboam] and Jeroboam all the days of his life.” The chronicler modifies the sense by omitting the concluding phrase, and then proceeds to give a striking account of a campaign in which Abijah totally defeated his rival (2Ch_13:3-20); of all which we find not a word in Kings.

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2. Michaiah] Read with LXX., Maacah; cp. note on 2Ch_11:20.

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And Abijah set the battle in array, with an army of valiant man of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men,.... Collected such an army of select men, led them into his enemy's country, and set them in order of battle:

and Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him, with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valour; double the number of Abijah s army, he having ten tribes to collect out of, and Abijah but two.

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See the 1Ki 15:2 note.

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Michaia, alias Maacha. Her father had also two names; viz., Absalom or Abessalom, and Uriel. (Challoner) --- Many had two names. (Tirinus) --- Of Gabaa, may refer to the women.

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Michaiah the daughter of Uriel, called Maachah the daughter of Absalom, 1Ki 15:2. She might be daughter to one, and granddaughter to the other; or the proper and natural daughter of the, one, and the other’s by adoption, of which there are instances in Scripture; or the same person might be called Uriel and Absalom: see 1Ki 15:2.

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2. Michaiah — Probably a copyist’s error for Maachah.

Daughter of Uriel — And granddaughter of Absalom. 1Ki_15:2, note.

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Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. As before noted, (2Ch_11:20) and as in the parallel, (1Ki_15:2) this name is one with "Maachah, daughter of Absalom" (parallel, Abishalom). The different alphabetic characters may be attributed to error, and that error the error of transcription merely. As in our note, (2Ch_11:20) the word "daughter," as in many similar cases, stands for granddaughter. Thus the father of Maachah was Uriel of Gibeah, and her mother Tamar, daughter of Absalom. Josephus ("Ant.," 8:10. proffers us this connecting link of explanation. On the other hand, Rabbi Joseph"s Targum on Chronicles says that Uriel means Absalom, but was a name used to avoid the use of Absalom. We have no clue as to which out of many Gibeahs is here intended. The Hebrew word (j; bgi) signifies a hill with round top, and hence would easily give name to many places. The following are the chief places of the name (as classified by Dr. Smith"s "Bible Dictionary," 1:689-691):

1. Gibeah in the mountain district of Judah (Jos_15:57; 1Ch_2:49)

2. Gibeath among the towns of Benjamin. (Jos_18:28)

3. The Gibeah (1Sa_7:1; 2Sa_6:3, 2Sa_6:4)

4. Gibeah of Benjamin, (Jud_1:19:, 20) between Bethlehem andJerusalem. This should strictly be quoted either as "Gibeah belonging to Benjamin," or "Geba (bG) of Benjamin". (see also 1Sa 13:, 1Sa_13:14; 2Sa_23:29; 1Ch_11:31; Hos_5:8 Hos_9:9 Hos_10:9)

5. Gibeah of Saul (1Sa_10:26 1Sa_15:34; 2Sa_21:6) Josephus ("Bell, Jud:," 5:2. states what helps to the identifying of the place as the modern Tuleil-el-ful, about thirty stadia from Jerusalem. (see Isa_10:28-32) The Gibeah of 1Sa_22:6 1Sa_23:19 1Sa_26:1, is this Gibeah of Saul.

6. Gibeah in the field. (Jud_1:20:31) Lastly, our Authorized Version gives us seven other Gibeahs, only translating this word, e g. The hill of the foreskins"; (Jos_5:3) "The hill of Phinehas"; (Jos_24:33) The hill of Moreh"; (Jud_1:7:1) The hill of God"; (1Sa_10:5) The hill of Haehilah"; (1Sa_23:19 1Sa_26:1) The hill of Ammah"; (2Sa_2:24) The hill Gareb". (Jer_31:39)

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Michaiah

Probably a grandchild of Absalom, called Abishalom, Cf. 2Ch 11:20; 1Ki 15:2.

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Three years he reigned in Jerusalem and no more, as is proven in I Kings (15:9): “And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Asa reigned over Judah.” We find that he did not reign even three whole years.

Micaiah the daughter of Uriel And above (11:20), he calls her by a different name, Maacah the daughter of Absalom, and in I Kings (15:10), it is likewise written “Maacah the daughter of Absalom.” Micaiah the daughter of Uriel was her [real] name, and here he calls her thus because this is the genealogical record of Judah. In Kings, which is the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, he calls her by her nickname, Maacah the daughter of Absalom. Now, for this reason, they nicknamed her Maacah, rather than call her by her real name, Micaiah, (and the name of her father was Uriel Abishalom). She was called by the name of her daughter-in-law, who was a valiant woman, a heroic woman, as it is written (below 15:16): “And also Maacah the mother of King Asa he removed from being queen,” and in honor of her daughter-in-law, they called the mother-in-law by the daughter-in-law’s name. So it is explained in Yerushalmi (unknown). Now this tradition is in the name of Rabbi Eliezer, and he told me this in the name of his father, and so I found in his father’s commentary: Wherever a “vav” is added to the name of a woman, this is to her praise, like Athaliah (below 22: 12): “and Athaliah reigned over the land,” for she was a valiant woman; similarly Jecaliah (ibid. 26:3) and Jecaliahu (II Kings 15:2), because she was a heroic woman, for Amaziah her husband fled to Lachish and was there fifteen years until he died, and she judged the people all those fifteen years, and later, when he died, they crowned his son Uzziah after him at the age of sixteen.

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