1 KINGS 15:3 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.”
And he walked in all the sins that his father had done before him; and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father — The Deuteronomistic formula condemns Abijah: he perpetuated his father Rehoboam's apostasy. The phrase וְלִבּוֹ לֹא־הָיָה שָׁלוֹם עִם־יְהוָה אֱלֹהָיו (his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God) invokes the standard of David as the measuring stick for kingship. Abijah failed this standard.
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