1 Kings
Chapters 15:1-4
Revised Version 1885
1Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat began Abijam to reign over Judah.
2Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
3And 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.
4Nevertheless 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: