²⁰ After her he took ^(A)Maacah the daughter of ^[a]Absalom, and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza and Shelomith.

^22 (A)Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as head and leader among his brothers, for he intended to make him king.

¹⁶ And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David; and his son ^(A)Abijah became king in his place.

^13 (A)So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Now Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen from all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

Asa Succeeds Abijah in Judah

14 ^[a](A)So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David, and his son Asa became king in his place. The land was undisturbed for ten years during his days.