Pertanyaan: 582. Siapa ibu Asa?
Dalam I Raja-raja 15:2-10, terdapat pertentangan mengenai hubungan Maakha dengan Asa. Apakah dia ibunya atau neneknya? Tampaknya dia adalah neneknya. Namanya disebutkan mungkin untuk menunjukkan hak Asa atas takhta. Rehabeam, kakeknya, menetapkan bahwa hanya anak-anaknya yang ibunya adalah Maakha yang berhak menjadi pewaris takhta. Dia disebut secara longgar sebagai ibunya, seperti dalam ayat berikutnya setelah yang dikutip (I Raja-raja 15:11) David digambarkan sebagai ayahnya, meskipun sebenarnya dia adalah buyut-butut Asa. Maakha juga bukan putri Absalom, melainkan cucunya.
Question: 582. Who Was the Mother of Asa?
In I Kings 15 : 2-10 there seems to be a contradiction as to the relation of Maachah to Asa. Was she his mother or his grandmother? She appears to have been his grandmother. Her name is mentioned probably to show Asa's title to the throne. Rehoboam, his grandfather, enacted that of all his children only those of whom Maachah was the mother should be in line of succession to the throne. She is spoken of loosely as his mother just as in the next verse to the one quoted (I Kings 15:11) David is described as his father, though he was really Asa's great-great-grandfather. Nor was Maachah the daughter of Absalom, but his granddaughter.
