1. Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah.
2. He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
3. He walked in all the sins of his father which he had committed before him; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, like the heart of his father David.
4. But for David's sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem;