1. Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah.
2. He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
3. He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.
4. Nevertheless for David’s sake, the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;
5. because David did that which was right in the Lord’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
6. Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.