and reigned three years in Jerusalem.(A) His mother’s name was Maacah(B) daughter[a] of Abishalom.

Abijam walked in all the sins his father before him had committed,(C) and he was not completely devoted to the Lord his God as his ancestor David had been.(D) But because of David, the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem to raise up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 15:2 Possibly granddaughter; 2Ch 13:2

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