1 Kings 15:3

1 Kings 15:3

Abijam Reigns in Judah

1 ^aIn the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah.

2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. ^aHis mother’s name was ^bMaachah the granddaughter of ^cAbishalom.

3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; ^ahis heart was not loyal to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.

4 Nevertheless ^afor David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, by setting up his son after him and by establishing Jerusalem;

5 because David ^adid what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, ^bexcept in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

6 ^aAnd there was war between¹ Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

7 ^aNow 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? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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his heart was not perfect with the Lord . . . , as the heart of David his father—(Compare I Kings 11:4; I Kings 14:22). He was not positively bad at first, for it appears that he had done something to restore the pillaged treasures of the temple (I Kings 15:15). This phrase contains a comparative reference to David's heart. His doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord (I Kings 15:5) is frequently used in speaking of the kings of Judah, and means only that they did or did not do that which, in the general course and tendency of their government, was acceptable to God. It furnishes no evidence as to the lawfulness or piety of one specific act.

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