1. Now in the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, Abiam reigned over Juda.
2. He reigned three years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Maacha the daughter of Abessalom.
3. And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: end his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
4. But 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: