1Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah.
2For three years he was king in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.
3And he did the same sins which his father had done before him: his heart was not completely true to the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.
4But because of David, the Lord gave him a light in Jerusalem, making his sons king after him, so that Jerusalem might be safe;
5Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.
7Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
