Two kings of Judah shared a mother’s name. Naamah, an Ammonitess, is named twice in First Kings as the mother of Rehoboam, Solomon’s son, who began to reign at forty-one. Both mentions come in the account of his reign, once at its start and once at his burial, where the text says “his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess.” A foreign-born woman is remembered beside the throne of David’s line, and the writer simply records it. A town called Naamah also appears in Joshua’s list of cities given to Judah, a separate place with the same name. Read the first notice in 1 Kings 14:21.
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And Gederoth, Bethdagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages:
And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
Matthew George Easton, 1897
The beautiful. (1.) The daughter of Lamech and Zillah (Gen. 4: 22).
(2.) The daughter of the king of Ammon, one of the wives of Solomon, the only one who appears to have borne him a son, viz., Rehoboam (1 Kings 14:21, 31).
(3.) A city in the plain of Judah (Josh. 15:41), supposed by some to be identified with Na’aneh, some 5 miles south-east of Makkedah.
William Smith, 1884
one of the towns of Judah in the district of the lowland or Shefelah. (Joshua 15:41) Capt. Warren, in Report of Palestine Exploration Fund , 1871, locates it at Naameh , six miles northeast of Yebna.
(loveliness).
(1.) One of the four women whose names are preserved in the records of the world before the flood; all except Eve being Cainites. Site was daughter of Lamech by his wife Zillah, and sister, as is expressly mentioned to Tubal-cain (Genesis 4:22) only. (B.C. about 3550.)
(2.) Mother of King Rehoboam. (1 Kings 14:21,31; 2 Chronicles 12:13) In each of these passages she is distinguished by the title "the (not “an,” as in Authorized Version) Ammonite." She was therefore one of the foreign women whom Solomon took into his establishment. (1 Kings 11:1) (B.C. 1015-975.)