1. Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijah became king over Judah.
2. He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maakah, the daughter of Abishalom.
3. He walked in all the sins of his father that he had done before him, and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.