3. Abijam did not truly obey the Lord his God as his ancestor David had done. Instead, he was sinful just like his father Rehoboam.
4-5. David had always obeyed the Lord's commands by doing right, except in the case of Uriah. And since Abijam was David's great-grandson, the Lord kept Jerusalem safe and let Abijam have a son who would be the next king.
6-7. The war that had broken out between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continued during the time that Abijam was king.Everything else Abijam did while he was king is written in The History of the Kings of Judah.
8. Abijam died and was buried in Jerusalem, and his son Asa became king.
9. Asa became king of Judah in the twentieth year of Jeroboam's rule in Israel,
10. and he ruled forty-one years from Jerusalem. His grandmother was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.