4. For the sake of David, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, by establishing his son after him and by causing Jerusalem to exist;
5. because David did right in the eyes of Yahweh and he didn’t turn aside from all that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
6. There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
7. The remainder of the acts of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? There was also war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
8. Abijam slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the city of David, and Asa his son became king in his place.
9. In the twentieth year of Jeroboam the king of Israel, Asa became the king of Judah.
10. He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.