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 Maachah, 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 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.