1. Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat began Abijam to reign over Judah.
2. Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah 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 did the Lord his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:
5. because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
6. Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
7. And the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
8. And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
9. And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to reign over Judah.
10. And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
11. And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his father.
12. And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
13. And also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
14. But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days.