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1 Kings 15:2-10

2and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.1

3And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been. 4Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and to make Jerusalem strong. 5For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

6And there was war between the houses of Rehoboam2 and Jeroboam all the days of Abijam’s life.3

7As for the rest of the acts of Abijam, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

8And Abijam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David, and his son Asa reigned in his place.

9In the twentieth year of Jeroboam’s reign over Israel, Asa became king of Judah, 10and he reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years. His grandmother’s4 name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

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Notes

  1. 1. 1 Kings 15:2 Abishalom is a variant of Absalom; also in verse 10; see 2 Chronicles 11:20. ↩
  2. 2. 1 Kings 15:6 Literally war between Rehoboam (most Hebrew manuscripts); some Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac war between Abijam (that is, Abijah); most LXX texts do not contain this verse. ↩
  3. 3. 1 Kings 15:6 Literally of his life ↩
  4. 4. 1 Kings 15:10 Or The queen mother’s; Hebrew His mother’s; see verses 2 and 13. ↩

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