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Name shared by multiple women — including the wife of Machir and wife of Jeiel of Gibeon
open_in_newMaacah is a name shared by several women in the Old Testament genealogies. One Maacah was the wife of Machir, grandson of Manasseh, listed in the tribal records of 1 Chronicles 7. Another Maacah was the wife of Jeiel, the founding father of Gibeon, named in the Benjaminite genealogy of 1 Chronicles 8–9.
Maacah is identified as the daughter of a foreign king — Talmai of Geshur — and mother of Absalom, a diplomatic marriage that brings royal blood and future trouble into David's household.
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