15. in the histories of ...] See Introduction [§ 5].
Iddo] compare xiii. 22, and see note on ix. 29.
after the manner of genealogies] margin in reckoning the genealogies; but literally “to enrol themselves.” This most obscure phrase is perhaps a meaningless fragment due to textual corruption. Another suggestion is that it has been misplaced and should be read at the end of xi. 16.
Chapter XIII.
1, 2 (= 1 Kings xv. 1, 2).
Abijah succeeds.
¹In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.
1. Abijah] Called Abijam in 1 Kings (LXX. Ἀβιού, i.e. Abijahu).
²Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
2. Micaiah] Read with LXX., Maacah; compare note on xi. 20. Torrey, however, (Ezra Studies, p. 217) suggests that some words have fallen out of the text through similarity of ending. He would read “And his mother’s name was Maacah <daughter of Absalom, and he took to wife> Maacah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah”: the inconsistency as to Maacah’s parentage between this verse and xi. 20 would disappear, and the suggestion that Maacah was grand-daughter of Absalom (see xi. 20, note) would be unnecessary.