² and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Maakah^(A) daughter of Abishalom.^[a]

² and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Maakah,^[a](A) a daughter^[b] of Uriel of Gibeah.

There was war between Abijah^(B) and Jeroboam.^(C)

²⁰ Then he married Maakah^(A) daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abijah,^(B) Attai, Ziza and Shelomith. ²¹ Rehoboam loved Maakah daughter of Absalom more than any of his other wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives^(C) and sixty concubines, twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

²² Rehoboam appointed Abijah^(D) son of Maakah as crown prince among his brothers, in order to make him king.

¹³ He even deposed his grandmother Maakah^(A) from her position as queen mother,^(B) because she had made a repulsive image for the worship of Asherah. Asa cut it down^(C) and burned it in the Kidron Valley.