1. In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah.
2. He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maachah the granddaughter of Abishalom.
3. And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; his heart was not loyal to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.
4. Nevertheless for David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, by setting up his son after him and by establishing Jerusalem;