Dictionary

MA'ACAH, 2 Sam 10:6, or MAACHAH, 1 Chr 19:6-7, a small district or kingdom on the north-eastern frontier of Palestine, situated, like Tibeath and Tebach, in connection with which it is mentioned, between Argob to the west and the desert to the east. Its king brought into the field only 1000 men to the assistance of the Bene-Ammon against Joab. It can hardly have been in the region of Abel-beth-maachah. MA'ACHAH. The daughter of Nahor, Abraham's brother, by his concubine Reumah. Gen 22:24. The father of Achish, who was king of Gath at the beginning of Solomon's reign, 1 Kgs 2:39; is also called Moach. 1 Sam 27:2. The daughter, or more probably the granddaughter, of Absalom, and the third wife of Rehoboam, mother to Abijah and grandmother to Asa. 1 Kgs 15:2; 2 Chr 11:20-22. In 2 Chr 13:2 she is called "Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah," "Michaiah," being a variation of "Maachah," and Uriel being the husband of Absalom's daughter Tamar. In the beginning of Asa's reign she held the dignity of queen-mother, 1 Kgs 16:2, 1 Kgs 16:10, 1 Kgs 16:13 ; 2 Chr 11:20-22; but when Asa came of age she lost the dignity as a punishment because she had introduced idolatry. 2 Chr 15:16. A concubine of Caleb, the son of Hezron. 1 Chr 2:48. A descendant of Benjamin, and the wife of Machir the Manassite. 1 Chr 7:12, 1 Chr 7:15-16. The wife of Jehiel, the founder of Gibeon, and the ancestor of the family of Saul. 1 Chr 8:29; 1 Chr 9:35. The father of Hanan, one of David's warriors. 1 Chr 11:43. The father of Shephatiah, chief of the Simeonites. 1 Chr 27:16.