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2 Chronicles 13:2-4
New Catholic Bible
2 Chronicles 13:2-4
New Catholic Bible
2 He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Micaiah, the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah.
When war broke out between Abijah and Jeroboam,[a] 3 Abijah prepared to engage in battle with an army of valiant warriors composed of four hundred thousand picked men, while Jeroboam took the field against him with eight hundred thousand chosen mighty warriors.
4 Then Abijah stood up on the slopes of Mount Zemaraim in the hill country of Ephraim and cried out: “Listen to me, Jeroboam and all Israel!
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- 2 Chronicles 13:2 In 2 Chr 11:20 Maacah is the daughter of Absalom. Perhaps an error has crept into the text, but this explanation is not necessary. The Hebrew has no special word for grandfather/mother and grandson/daughter; instead it says “father of the father” or “son of the son” and often says simply “father” and “son.” In any case, Maacah was not the daughter of Absalom, because we know that he had only one daughter, Tamar (2 Sam 14:27). In keeping with the same idiom, “mother” in 2 Chr 15:16 means “grandmother.”
