1In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah.2He reigned three years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Maacah daughter of Absalom.3He walked in all the sins of his father that he had done before him, and his heart was not complete with the LORD his God like the heart of David his father.4Because of David the LORD his God had given him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem.5David had done what was upright in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from all that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.6There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.7The remainder of the words of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written upon the scroll of the words of the days of the kings of Judah? There was also battle between Abijam and Jeroboam.8Abijam lay down with his fathers and was buried in the city of David, and his son Asa reigned in his place.