Abijam Reigns in Judah

1 Kings 15

¹ _w Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah. ² He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. ³ And he walked in all the sins that his father did before him, and _x his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father. ⁴ Nevertheless, for David's sake the Lord his God gave him _y a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him, and establishing Jerusalem, ⁵ because _z David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, _a except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. ⁶ _b Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. ⁷ _c The rest of the acts of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? _d And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam. ⁸ _e And Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his place.

1. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 13:1 - 2
   In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah began to reign over Judah.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Kings 11:4
   For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
   1 Kings 15:14
   But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true to the Lord all his days.
   1 Kings 8:61
   Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the Lord our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day.
   
3. Cross References
   1 Kings 11:36
   Yet to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name.
   
4. Cross References
   1 Kings 9:4
   And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules.
   1 Kings 14:8
   And tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you, and yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, doing only that which was right in my eyes.
   
5. Cross References
   2 Samuel 11:4
   So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. ( Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.
   2 Samuel 11:15
   In the letter he wrote, "Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die.
   2 Samuel 12:9
   Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
   
6. Cross References
   1 Kings 14:30
   And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
   
7. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 13:22
   The rest of the acts of Abijah, his ways and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
   
8. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 13:2 - 20
   He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. Now there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
   
9. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 14:1
   Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land had rest for ten years.