18 Rehaveam married Mahalat. She was the daughter of David’s son Yerimot, and her mother was Avihayil, the daughter of Eliav and granddaughter of Yishay (Jesse). 19 They had three sons: Yeush, Shemaryah, and Zaham. 20 After her, he married Avishalom’s daughter Maakah, and they had four sons: Aviyah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomit. 21 Rehaveam loved Maakah the most out of his eighteen wives and sixty slave-wives. He fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters, 22 but he appointed Maakah’s son Aviyah to be the leader of his older and younger brothers, because that would mark him as the future king. 23 He wisely sent his other sons to fortified cities across all the regions in Yehudah and Benyamin, where he set them up generously and asked the local people to give them wives.