²⁰ Later Rehoboam married another cousin, Maacah, the granddaughter of Absalom. Maacah gave birth to Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

² He reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother was Maacah,^[a] the daughter of Uriel from Gibeah.

Then war broke out between Abijah and Jeroboam.

¹⁶ When Rehoboam died, he was buried in the City of David. Then his son Abijah became the next king.

²¹ Rehoboam loved Maacah more than any of his other wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and they gave birth to twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Abijam Rules in Judah

15 Abijam^[a] began to rule over Judah in the eighteenth year of Jeroboam’s reign in Israel. ² He reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother was Maacah, the granddaughter of Absalom.^[b]