And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, your servants are in Gath.

Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his grandmother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

And also Maachah his grandmother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image on an idol pole; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.