1 Kings 15

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Maachah] Abijahs mother, and her Father, had both of them two differing and various names, 1 King. XV. 2, 10. 2 Chron. XI. 20. and XIII. 2. His marriages and children, 2 Chron. XIII. 21. were all, or almost all, in his fathers reigne.

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Save only in the matter of Vriah] In this sin David did lie long without repentance, 2 Sam. XII. 14. And to cover this sin, he made Uriah drunck; and after murthered him: yet afterwards upon his repentance, he publisheth it, and his shame and sorrow for it, in the LI. Psalme, and commits it to the chief Musician to be sung publickly in the Congregation. But besides this, there are many other sins recorded of David: As his speech and lyes to Jonathan, 1 Sam. XX. 6. to Ahimelech, 1 Sam.

XXI. 2. to Achish, 1 Sam. XXVII. 10. the slownesse of his kindnesse to Mephibosheth; compare together, 2 Sam. IV. 4. and chap. IX. 11, 12. And after his ill-managing of it, 2 Sam. XVI. 4. and chap.

IX. 29. his many Wives and Concubines; the sparing of his sons, Ammon, and Absolom; his numbering of the people. Yet by reason of the upright intention of his heart, and his singular rare graces, gifts, and qualifications, are the rest not reckoned, and this Praise here given him, by the indulgency of God.

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Fourty and one years] Asa reigned in Judah in the times of the reignes of eight Kings in Israel; viz. Jeroboham, Nadab, Baasha, Elah, Zimri, Tibni, Omri, Ahab, 1 King. XV. 9 and XVI. 29. and XXII. 41. In which time the Kingdome of Israel was changed into three several stocks and families.

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Maachah] Maachah was wife to Rehoboam; mother to Abijah; and grandmother to Asa, 1 King XV. 2. yet called the mother of Asa, 1 King. XV. 13. 2 Chron. XV ver. 16. And as mother used for grandmother; so daughter for grandchilde, 2 Kings VIII. 26. Brethren for Kinsmen, 2 Kings X. 13. Matth. XIII. 55, 56. And many like phrases are frequent in Scripture. See Gen. XIII. 8. Exod. II. 18. 20, 21. Dan. V. 10, 11, 13, 22.