3 Kings 15:2
He reigned three years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Maacha the daughter of Abessalom.
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Tribus annis regnavit in Jerusalem : nomen matris ejus Maacha filia Abessalom.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἓξ ἔτη ἐβασίλευσεν· καὶ ὄνομα τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ Μααχά, θυγάτηρ Ἀβεσσαλώμ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- שָׁלֹ֣שׁ שָׁנִ֔ים מָלַ֖ךְ בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וְשֵׁ֣ם אִמּ֔וֹ מַעֲכָ֖ה בַּת אֲבִישָׁלֽוֹם
Haydock's commentary
Years, wanting some months. Maacha. She is called elsewhere, Michaia, daughter of Uriel; but is was a common thing, in those days, for a person to have two names. (Challoner)
Abessalom and Absalom, the son of David are the same, 2 Paralipomenon xi. 21. (Calmet)
St. Jerome (Trad.) is of a different opinion. (Menochius)
Josephus ([Antiquities?] viii. 10.) intimates that Maacha was the daughter of Thamar. The eldest daughter, in the kingdom of Gessur, seems to have been usually styled Maacha, ver. 10. (Tirinus)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.