and he ruled three years in Jerusalem. His mother was Maacah, the daughter of Absalom.
and he ruled three years in Jerusalem. His mother was Micaiah daughter of Uriel, from the city of Gibeah. War broke out between Abijah and Jeroboam.
He removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother, because she had made an obscene idol of the fertility goddess Asherah. Asa cut down the idol and burned it in Kidron Valley.
and he ruled forty-one years in Jerusalem. His grandmother was Maacah, the daughter of Absalom.
In the eighteenth year of the reign of King Jeroboam of Israel, Abijah became king of Judah,
at the age of thirty-five, and he ruled in Jerusalem for twenty-five years. His mother was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.