11Now in the eighteenth*year of KingJeroboam, the son of Nebat, AbijambecamekingoverJudah.
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He reignedthreeyears in Jerusalem; and his mother'sname was 2Maacah the daughter of 3Abishalom.
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He walked in all the sins of his fatherwhich he had committedbefore him; and 4his heart was not whollydevoted to the LORD his God, like the heart of his fatherDavid.
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But for David'ssake the LORD his Godgave him a 5lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his sonafter him and to establishJerusalem;
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6becauseDaviddidwhat was right in the sight of the LORD, and had not turnedaside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, 7except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.
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8There was warbetweenRehoboam and Jeroboamall the days of his life.
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Now 9the 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? 10And there was warbetweenAbijam and Jeroboam.
In this chapter we have a short history of the reign of Abijam, 1Ki 15:1-8 and of Asa, 1Ki 14:9-24, both kings of Judah; and of the reigns of Nadab the son of Jeroboam, and of Baasha, who destroyed his family, both kings of Israel, 1Ki 15:25-34.