-Maacah/Maachah:.This
Maacah was one of the wives of David
who gave him a son named Absalom:.1Chronicles
3:2; 2Samuel 3:2,3.
Another 'Maacah/Maachah'.was.one
of the children.of
David's son Absalom..This
Maacah/Maachah became Rehoboam's wife.
Rehoboam became the 1st
king of Judah and was a son of Solomon and Solomon was a son of David.
This Maacah gave birth to
Abijam,
who later after his father Rehoboam, also became a king of Judah:.2Chronicles
11:18-22 "And Rehoboam...took
Maachah the daughter of Absalom which bare him Abijah.(also
called Abijam)....And Rehoboam loved
Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines...And
Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to be ruler among his
brethren, for he thought to make him king."
This.Maachah
was not a good mother for Abijam/Abijah:.1Kings
15:2,3; 2Chronicles 15:16.
The name Maacah/Maachah means 'pressure', 'oppression'.
-Manasseh:
The son and impious
successor of the good Hezekiah,
king of Judah:.2Kings
21:1. He began to reign at twelve years old, B.C.E.
698 and reigned fifty-five years.
For his shocking idolatries,
tyranny and cruelties, God allowed him to be carried as a prisoner to Babylon
in the twenty-second year of his reign, probably by Esarhaddon king of
Assyria.
Here, however, he so humbled
himself that God moved the Assyrians to restore him to his throne, as a
tributary
and thenceforth he set himself to undo the evil he had done:.2Chronicles
33:12,13 "And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God
and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers."
He abolished the idols he
had worshipped and the
diviners
he had consulted, accomplished many reforms for the spiritual and material
good of his kingdom; repaired the defenses of Jerusalem, enclosing with
Ophel on the southeast and strengthened the walled cities of Judah.
After a reign longer than
that of any other king of Judah, he died in peace and was buried in Jerusalem:.2Kings
21:18 "And Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden
of his own house, in the garden of Uzza."
-Menahem:
16th king of.Israel;
reigned 10 years; B.C.E.
771-760; son of a man named Gadi; previously general of the army of Zachariah;
an.evil king:.2Kings
15:14-20. Menahem was tyrannical,
cruel
and into
pagan.idolatry.
Menahem was probably the
officer in charge of the royal troops in Tirzah,
one of the king Zachariah's residences, at the time Shallum
murdered him.
Hearing of this deed, Menahem
brought up his troops and avenged
the murder of Zachariah by putting Shallum
to death in Samaria.
He then seized
the vacant throne.
Pul,
king of Assyria, having invaded
Israel during the reign of Menahem, caused him to pay a
tribute
of a thousand talents,
which Menahem raised by taxing all his rich subjects fifty shekels
a head.
Menehem's successor was his
evil son Pekahiah
who reigned only two years.
The name of Menahem is found
on recently discovered Assyrian tablets.
-Michael:.The
title given to one of the high ranking angels,
him being the archangel:.Jude
1:9; Daniel 10:13,21; 12:1.
Michael means 'who is like the Creator'. He had special charge of Israel
as a nation. He disputed with Satan.(Jude
1:9).about
the body of Moses. He is also represented
as warning against."that
old serpent, called the Devil and Satan, which
deceiveth
the whole world":.Revelation
12:7-9. The movies of.Lord
Of The Rings.trilogy
shows the interactions and battles
that go on invisibly. There are other
high ranking beings in the family of the Creator.
-Michal:.means
rivulet.(a
small brook {aka
a creek} or stream), the younger of
Saul's
two daughters by his wife Ahinoam:.1Samuel
14:49,50.
Attracted by the graces of
his person and the gallantry
of his conduct, she fell in love with David
and became his wife:.1Samuel
18:20-28. The story of David and
Michal, David's other wife.
She showed her affection
for him by
promoting his escape
to Naioth when Saul sought his life:.1Samuel
19:12-17.
After this she did not see
David for many years. Meanwhile she was given in marriage to another man,
Phalti or Phaltiel of Gallim.(1Samuel
25:44), but David afterwards formally
reclaimed her as his lawful wife:.2Samuel
3:13-16.
The relation between her
and David soon after this, was altered. They became alienated from each
other. This happened.(2Samuel
6:14-22).on
that memorable day when the ark
of the covenant was brought up in great triumph from its temporary
resting place to the Holy City.
In David's conduct on that
occasion she saw nothing but a needless humiliation of the royal dignity
in David's enthusiasm:.1Chronicles
15:29. She remained childless and thus the races of David and Saul
were not mixed.
-Miriam:.Miriam
was the sister of Moses and Aaron:.Exodus
2:4-10; 1Chronicles 6:3.
Her name is prominent in the history of the Exodus. She is called."the
prophetess":.Exodus
15:20. She took the lead in the song of triumph after the
passage of the Red Sea.
She was about 12 or 13 at
the birth of Moses, for she is called."the
maid".(Exodus
2:8), implying
one of marriageable age. Aaron being three years older than Moses was nine
years younger than her. She watched her infant brother in the tiny basket
ark on the Nile and suggested to Pharaoh's daughter about her mother being
a nurse, that unbeknownst
to be Moses actual mother:.Numbers
26:59. Later when she was much older, the fires of her daunting
remarks against her brother Moses because of his Cushite.(black
African).wife
caused her to break out temporarily with leprosy:.Numbers
12th chapter.
She was forgiven and restored
and near the close of the wandering of Israel in getting to the land they
came out of Egypt to head to.(map).
She died at Kadesh during the second encampment at that place and was buried
there:.Numbers
20:1.
Anna,
Deborah
and Huldah are the only others who
bear the title of 'prophetess'.
