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Who was King Abijah's mother?

2 Chronicles 11:20 and 2 Chronicles 13:2

  1. Maacah (2 Chronicles 11:20) - "And after her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom, and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith."
  2. Micaiah (2 Chronicles 13:2) - "He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam."

This is a very simple answer.  Maacah was simply another spelling for Micaiah.  They are one and the same.1

 

  1. 1. Haley, Alleged Discrepancies of the Bible, p. 317, and Paul J. Achtemeier, Harper’s Bible Dictionary, San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1985.