1 Kings 15:10 NIV

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 15:10

10-13. his mother's name was Maachah—She was properly his grandmother, and she is here called "the king's mother," from the post of dignity which at the beginning of his reign she possessed. Asa, as a constitutional monarch, acted like the pious David, laboring to abolish the traces and polluting practices of idolatry, and in pursuance of his impartial conduct, he did not spare delinquents even of the highest rank. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Kings 15:9-15

Asa’s godliness 15:9-15Asa came to power close to the end of Jeroboam’s reign over Israel in 910 B.C. Asa reigned from 911-870 B.C., 41 years, an unusually long reign that probably began when he was quite young (cf. 1 Kings 15:2). It was his grandmother (NIV), not his mother (NASB), who bore the name Maacah (cf. 1 Kings 15:2). The queen mother (dowager), not the king’s wife, was the first lady in the kingdom. [Note: Gray, p. 106.] The rightness of Asa’s acts is clear from his removing the pagan... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Kings 15:9-24

5. Asa’s good reign in Judah 15:9-24Asa was the first of eight kings of Judah whom the writer of Kings judged as good. Four of them were reformers who sought to bring the nation back to the Mosaic Covenant, and Asa was the first of these. The other reformers were Jehoshaphat, Hezekiah, and Josiah. The writer of Chronicles described Asa’s reforms more fully in 2 Chronicles 14-16. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 15:1-34

The Reigns of Abijam and Asa, Nadab and Baasha2. Abishalom] i.e. Absalom. In 2 Chronicles 13:2 his mother is called Micaiah, the daughter of Uriel, and if this is correct, Absalom was probably her grandfather, and her mother the Tamar mentioned in 2 Samuel 14:27. 4. A lamp] see on 1 Kings 11:36. The divine promise made to David prevented Abijam’s sins from being punished by the transfer of the throne to another line.6. There was war.. life] a repetition of 1 Kings 14:30. 2 Chronicles 13:2 has... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Kings 15:10

(10) His mother’s name was Maachah.—Maachah was (see 1 Kings 15:2) the wife of Rehoboam, and, therefore, grandmother of Asa. She appears, however, still to have retained the place of “queen-mother,” to the exclusion of the real mother of the king. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 15:1-24

1THE EARLIER KINGS OF JUDAH1 Kings 14:21-31; 1 Kings 15:1-24THE history of "the Jews" begins, properly speaking, from the reign of Rehoboam, and for four centuries it is mainly the history of the Davidic dynasty.The only records of the son of Solomon are meager records of disaster and disgrace. He reigned seventeen years, and his mother, the Ammonitess Naamah, occupied the position of queen-mother. She was, doubtless, a worshipper in the shrine which Solomon had built for her national god,... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 1 Kings 15:1-24

3. Abijam and Asa, Kings of Judah CHAPTER 15 1. Abijam of Judah (1 Kings 15:1-8 ; 2 Chronicles 13:0 ) 2. Asa of Judah (1 Kings 15:9-24 ; 1 Kings 2:0 Chronicles 14-16) Abijam is called in Chronicles Abijah; in 2 Chronicles 13:21 he is called Abijahu. Abijam was undoubtedly the older form. It is possible that on account of his great address of rebuke to Jeroboam (2 Chronicles 13:4-12 ) they may have called him Abijah (Jehovah is my father). He ascended the throne in the eighteenth year of... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 1 Kings 15:1-34

4. Kings of Israel CHAPTERS 15:25-16 1. Nadab, King of Israel (1 Kings 15:25-32 ) 2. Baasha, King of Israel (1 Kings 15:34 ; 1 Kings 16:1-7 ) 3. Elah, King of Israel (1 Kings 16:8-14 ) 4. Zimri, King of Israel (1 Kings 16:15-20 ) 5. Divisions (1 Kings 16:21-22 ) 6. Omri, King of Israel (1 Kings 16:23-28 ) 7. Ahab (1 Kings 16:29-34 ) Six kings of Israel are now mentioned. Asa saw them all ascending the throne of Israel. The first mentioned is Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, who... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - 1 Kings 15:10

15:10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his {c} mother’s name [was] Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.(c) That is, his grandmother, as David is often called the father of those who are his grandchildren. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 15:1-34

ABIJAM'S MUCH SHORTER REIGN (vs.1-8) Though Rehoboam's reign was short, that of Abijam was much shorter, only three years (v.2). His mother's name was Maacah, who must have had no good influence over him, for Abijam followed his father's example in practicing the same sins of disobedience to God (v.3). In spite of the sins of Abijam, however, the Lord honored his great grandfather David by allowing Abijam to reign this short time in Judah (v.4). Thus, though the Lord often visits the... read more