1 Kings 15:1–8

Abijam Reigns over Judah

^1aNow in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah.

²He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was ^1aMaacah the daughter of ^2bAbishalom.

³He walked in all the sins of his father which he had committed before him; and ^ahis heart was not ¹wholly devoted to the Lord his God, like the heart of his father David.

⁴But for David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a ^alamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem;

^5abecause David did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, ^bexcept in the case of Uriah the Hittite.

^6aThere was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

⁷Now ^athe 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? ^bAnd there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

Asa Succeeds Abijam

^8aAnd Abijam slept with his fathers and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son became king in his place.