Atlas Biblica

    10 others in the registry answer to the name Maacah. Every Maacah in the Bible

    person · also Micaiah

    Maacah

    מַעֲכָה

    Maacah, also known as Micaiah, the daughter of Abishalom (Absalom), was the wife of Rehoboam and mother of Abijah, king of Judah.

    verses
    8
    first named
    1 Kings 15:2
    last named
    2 Chronicles 15:16
    period
    United Monarchy
    tribe
    Judah

    Description

    Who was Maacah?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Maacah, also referred to as Micaiah, was the daughter of Abishalom (likely Absalom, the son of David) and the wife of King Rehoboam of Judah (1Ki.15.2; 2Ch.11.20-21). She was the mother of Abijah, who succeeded Rehoboam as king (1Ki.15.2; 2Ch.11.22; 13.2). Maacah held the influential position of queen mother during the reigns of Rehoboam and Abijah. However, she was removed from this role by her grandson, King Asa, because she had made an obscene image of Asherah (1Ki.15.13; 2Ch.15.16). Maacah's story illustrates the political significance of the queen mother in the Judean monarchy and the religious reforms undertaken by King Asa to purge idolatry from the land.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Maacah 10 of 11 entities the graph connects to Maacah, in 2 groups: kinship 8, events 2. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.AbsalomChild of · 92 versesAsaAncestor of · 2 events · 53 versesRehoboamPartner of · 2 events · 42 versesAbijahMother of · 1 event · 20 versesAttaiMother of · 1 event · 1 verseShelomithMother of · 1 event · 1 verseTamarChild of · 1 verseUrielChild of · 1 verseKinshipWife1 event · 70 versesConcubine1 event · 9 versesEventsMaacah

    The 10 best-attested of 11 are drawn. All 11 are listed below.

    Ancestor of

    Child of

    Mother of

    Partner of

    Stands in the same events as

    Places

    Where this happens

    A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.

    No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.

    Not read yet

    The pattern

    Where Maacah is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 8 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKS2 CHRONICLES5 VERSES52 books and 786 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 8 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKS2 CHRONICLES5 VERSES52 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Maacah is named in 8 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 64 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 8, across 2 books.

    1. 1 Kings3 verses

      15:215:1015:13

    2. 2 Chronicles5 verses

      11:2011:2111:2213:215:16

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via Abijah and Attai, and 3 moreJeushSon of King Rehoboam and Mahalathvia Abijah and Attai, and 3 moreShemariahSon of Rehoboam and Abihailvia Abijah and Attai, and 3 moreZahamSon of King Rehoboamvia Absalom and AsaDavidAnointed king of Israel, ancestor of Jesus Christvia Absalom and RehoboamSolomonSon of David, king of Israel, known for his wisdom.via AsaAzubahThe mother of King Jehoshaphat of Judah.via AsaJehoshaphatSon of Asa, king of Judah.via RehoboamAbihailMother of Rehoboam's wife Mahalathvia RehoboamBasemathWife of Ahimaaz, one of Solomon's district governors.
    ElsewhereGenealogy of MaacahEvery ancestor and every descendant the text names, both gospel lines where they differ.

    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

    What this rests on