and she bore him sons, Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.
See here, I. How Rehoboam was strengthened by the accession of the priests and Levites, and all the devout and pious Israelites, to him, even all that were true to their God and their religion. 1. Jeroboam cast them off, that is, he set up such a way of worship as he knew they could not in conscience comply with, which obliged them to withdraw...
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 11:13-23
And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines, &c. Who is called Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel, Ch2 13:2, for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines; led thereunto by the example of his father Solomon, contrary to the command of God, Deu 17:17.
2Ch 11:18-19 2Ch 11:18-23, information as to Rehoboam’s family relationships. - 2Ch 11:18. Instead of בּן we must read, with the Keri, many MSS, lxx, and Vulg., בּת: Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth, the son of David. Among the sons of David (1Ch 3:1-8) no Jerimoth is found. If this name be not another form of יתרעם, 1Ch 3:3, Jerimoth must have been a son of one of David’s concubines.
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 11:18-19