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Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat began Abijam to reign over Judah.
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Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother`s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
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He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.
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Nevertheless for David`s sake did Yahweh his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;
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because David did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and didn`t turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
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Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
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The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, aren`t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
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Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his place.