Family of Asa and Azuba of JUDAH
Husband: Asa
Name: |
Asa |
Sex: |
Male |
Father: |
Abijah (957- ) |
Mother: |
Ana of JUDAH (950- ) |
Birth |
0955 B.C. |
Judea |
Occupation |
|
King of Judea |
Title |
frm 0911 B.C. to 0869 B.C. (age 43-86) |
King of Judea |
Wife: Azuba of JUDAH
Name: |
Azuba of JUDAH |
Sex: |
Female |
Father: |
- |
Mother: |
- |
Birth |
0937 B.C. |
|
Name: |
Jehoshaphat |
Sex: |
Male |
Birth |
0917 B.C. |
|
Occupation |
|
King of Judea |
Title |
frm 0873 B.C. to 0848 B.C. (age 43-69) |
King of Judea |
Note on Husband: Asa
King Asa (b. 955(?) B.C.E., ruled Judah 911-869 B.C.E.) His grandmother, Michaiah (Maachah), is called his “mother” in the “Masoretic Text” (1 Ki 15:9-10), but here the term “mother” is used in a loose sense. This has caused some confusion since the “MT” does not give his mother’s name, however, the “Septuagint Text” corrects this by giving his mother’s name. The confusion was created by the fact that his wife Ana died before her husband’s succession. (Note: Ana daughter of Ahimmaaz son of Aibra son of Shebuel was a descendant of Moses's son Eliezar.) King Asa's grandmother, Michaiah (Maachah), the queen-mother of his father’s reign, was still alive, and, in the absence of Asa’s mother, Ana, filled a vacuum in the royal court. There was no such office of “queen-mother” in the Hebrew monarchy; which is the reason that the mothers of the “northern kings” are seldom mentioned but in passing, whereas, the mothers of the “southern kings” are nearly always given by name. He married Azuba, daughter of Shilhi, one of the sons of Jeroboam, the rebel Hebrew king, an Ephraimite, whose father fled south to Judah during the massacre of King Jeroboam’s House by the usurper Baasha where he and his family found refuge. They had a son Jehoshaphat.1
Sources
1 | "Biblical Genealogy from Judah to Bustanai". |