1. Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat began Abijam to reign over Judah.
2. Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
3. And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father.
4. Nevertheless for David’s sake did Jehovah his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;