¹ In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam -- Abijah reigneth over Judah;

¹⁶ and Rehoboam lieth with his fathers, and is buried in the city of David, and reign doth Abijah his son in his stead.

¹ And in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam son of Nebat, reigned hath Abijam over Judah;

² three years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother `is' Maachah daughter of Abishalom;

³ and he walketh in all the sins of his father, that he did before him, and his heart hath not been perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father;

⁴ but for David's sake hath Jehovah his God given to him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem,

⁵ in that David did that which `is' right in the eyes of Jehovah, and turned not aside from all that He commanded him all days of his life -- only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite;

⁶ and war hath been between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

⁷ And the rest of the matters of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? And war hath been between Abijam and Jeroboam;

⁸ and Abijam lieth with his fathers, and they bury him in the city of David, and reign doth Asa his son in his stead.