He even deposed his grandmother Maakah from her position as queen mother, because she had made a repulsive image for the worship of Asherah. Asa cut it down and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
Then he married Maakah daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza and Shelomith.Rehoboam loved Maakah daughter of Absalom more than any of his other wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, twenty- eight sons and sixty daughters.Rehoboam appointed Abijah son of Maakah as crown prince among his brothers, in order to make him king.