1 Kings 15:2-4

Holman Christian Standard Bible

² and reigned three years in Jerusalem.^(A) His mother’s name was Maacah^(B) daughter^[a] of Abishalom.

³ 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) 4} 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)