1 Kings 15:2

2 He ruled in Jerusalem three years. His mother was Maacah daughter of Absalom.

1 Kings 15:2 In-Context

1 In the eighteenth year of the rule of Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijah took over the throne of Judah.
2 He ruled in Jerusalem three years. His mother was Maacah daughter of Absalom.
3 He continued to sin just like his father before him. He was not truehearted to God as his grandfather David had been.
4 But despite that, out of respect for David, his God graciously gave him a lamp, a son to follow him and keep Jerusalem secure.
5 For David had lived an exemplary life before God all his days, not going off on his own in willful defiance of God's clear directions (except for that time with Uriah the Hittite).
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