Judah’s King Abijam

15 In the eighteenth year of Israel’s King Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah, ² and he reigned three years in Jerusalem.^(A) His mother’s name was Maacah^(B) daughter^[a] of Abishalom.

³ Abijam walked in all the sins his father before him had committed,^(C) and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God as his ancestor David had been.^{(D) 4} But for the sake of David, the Lord his God gave him a lamp^[b] in Jerusalem by raising up his son after him and by preserving Jerusalem.^{(E) 5} For David did what was right in the Lord’s sight, and he did not turn aside from anything he had commanded him all the days of his life,^(F) except in the matter of Uriah^(G) the Hethite.

⁶ There had been war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of Rehoboam’s life.^{(H) 7} The rest of the events of Abijam’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings.^(I) There was also war between Abijam and Jeroboam.^{(J) 8} Abijam rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David.^(K) His son Asa became king in his place.^(L)