1. In the eighteenth year of Israel’s King Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah
2. and reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.
3. Abijam walked in all the sins his father before him had committed, and he was not completely devoted to the Lord his God as his ancestor David had been.
4. But because of David, the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem to raise up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem.
5. For David did what was right in the Lord’s eyes, and he did not turn aside from anything He had commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
6. There had been war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of Rehoboam’s life.
7. The rest of the events of Abijam’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings. There was also war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
8. Abijam rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. His son Asa became king in his place.
9. In the twentieth year of Israel’s King Jeroboam, Asa became king of Judah
10. and reigned 41 years in Jerusalem. His grandmother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.
11. Asa did what was right in the Lord’s eyes, as his ancestor David had done.
12. He banished the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his fathers had made.
13. He also removed his grandmother Maacah from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image and burned it in the Kidron Valley.