Bible Verses About Maachah: 4. Called Michaiah, mother of Abijam and grandmother of Asa

And he reigned one and forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacha, the daughter of Abessalom.

And Asa did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, as did David, his father:

And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.

Moreover, he also removed his mother, Maacha, from being the princess in the sacrifices of Priapus, and in the grove which she had consecrated to him: and he destroyed her den, and broke in pieces the filthy idol, and burnt it by the torrent Cedron:

And after her he married Maacha the daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abia, and Ethai, and Ziza, and Salomith.

And Roboam loved Maacha the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines: for he had married eighteen wives, and threescore concubines: and he begot eight and twenty sons, and threescore daughters.

But he put at the head of them Abia the son of Maacha to be the chief ruler over all his brethren: for he meant to make him king,

Because he was wiser and mightier than all his sons, and in all the countries of Juda, and of Benjamin, and in all the walled cities: and he gave them provisions in abundance, and he sought many wives.