1 Kings 15:2-4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

² and he reigned for 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 wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God as his ancestor David had been.^{(D) 4} But for the sake of David, the Lord his God gave him a lamp^[b] in Jerusalem by raising up his son after him and by preserving Jerusalem.^(E)