three sons Who are not named, because none of them lived to grow up. See ch. 2 Samuel 18:18.

Tamar Who inherited the beauty as well as the name of her aunt. The Sept. adds, "and she became the wife of Roboam the son of Solomon, and bare him Abia." This however does not agree with the books of Kings and Chronicles. From 1 Kings 15:2 we learn that Maachah the daughter of Abishalom was the wife of Rehoboam and mother of Abijam: from 2 Chronicles 13:2 that Abijah's mother's name was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah (cp. 2 Chronicles 11:20-22). The natural inference is that Michaiahis an alternative name or a textual error for Maachah, and that Maachah was the daughter or Uriel and Tamar, and granddaughter of Absalom, named after her great-grandmother.

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