Abijah became the new king of Judah during the 18th year that Jeroboam son of Nebat ruled Israel.
Rehoboam died and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. (His mother was Naamah. She was an Ammonite.) Rehoboam’s son Abijah became the next king after him.
The seventeenth was Hezir’s group. The eighteenth was Happizzez’s group.
Then Rehoboam married Maacah. Maacah was Absalom’s granddaughter. And Maacah gave Rehoboam these children: Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.