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^(C1)Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah.

He reigned for three years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was ^(F1)(C1)Maacah the daughter of ^(F2)(C2)Abishalom.

He walked in all the sins of his father which he had committed before him; and ^(C1)his heart was not ^(F1)wholly devoted to the LORD his God, like the heart of his father David.

But for David's sake the LORD his God gave him a ^(C1)lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem,

^(C1)because David did what was right in the sight of the LORD, and did not deviate from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, ^(C2)except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.

^(C1)And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

Now as for ^(C1)the 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? ^(C2)And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

^(C1)And Abijam ^(F1)lay down with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and his son Asa became king in his place.