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.