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.