1. Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.
2. Three years he reigned in Jerusalem. And 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: