Bishops(i)
1 In the eighteenth yere of king Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat, raigned Abiam ouer Iuda
2 Three yeres raigned he in Hierusalem: and his mothers name was Maacha, the daughter of Abisalom
3 And he walked in all the sinnes of his father which he had done before him, and his heart was not perfect with the Lorde his God, as the heart of Dauid his father
4 Neuerthelesse, for Dauids sake did the Lorde his God geue him a lyght in Hierusalem, that he set vp his sonne after him, and stablished Hierusalem
5 Because Dauid did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and turned from nothing that he commaunded him all the dayes of his lyfe, saue onely in the matter of Urias the Hethite
6 And there was warre betweene Rehoboam and Ieroboam, as long as he lyued
7 The rest of the wordes that concerne Abiam, and all that he did, are they not written in the booke of the cronicles of the kinges of Iuda? And there was warre betweene Abiam & Ieroboam
8 And Abiam slept with his fathers, & they buried him in the citie of Dauid: and Asa his sonne raigned in his steade