1 Kings 15

¹And in the eighteenth yeere of King Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, reigned Abiiam ouer Iudah.

²Three yeere reigned hee in Ierusalem, and his mothers name was Maachah the daughter of Abishalom.

³And hee walked in all the sinnes of his father, which hee had done before him: and his heart was not perfit with the Lord his God as the heart of Dauid his father.

⁴But for Dauids sake did the Lord his God giue him a light in Ierusalem, and set vp his sonne after him, and established Ierusalem,

⁵Because Dauid did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and turned from nothing that he commanded him, all the dayes of his life, saue onely in the matter of Vriah the Hittite.

⁶And there was warre betweene Rehoboam and Ieroboam as long as he liued.

⁷The rest also of the actes of Abiiam, and all that he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah? there was also warre betweene Abiiam, and Ieroboam.

⁸And Abiiam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the citie of Dauid: and Asa his sonne reigned in his steade.

⁹And in the twentie yeere of Ieroboam King of Israel reigned Asa ouer Iudah.

¹⁰He reigned in Ierusalem one and fourtie yeere, and his mothers name was Maachah the daughter of Abishalom.

¹¹And Asa did right in the eyes of the Lord, as did Dauid his father.

¹²And he tooke away the Sodomites out of the lande, and put away all the idoles that his fathers had made.