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Show Abijam amid inherited religious compromise while the Davidic lamp remains in Jerusalem; avoid depicting David as sinless or Yahweh corporeally.
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1 Kings 15:3-5

A lamp in Jerusalem

Kings of Judah and Israel · 1 Kings 15

Story guide: Abijam stands amid signs of his father's compromised worship while a lamp still burns for David's sake in Jerusalem.

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3He committed all the sins his father had committed before him. His heart was not wholly devoted to Yahweh his God, as the heart of his ancestor David had been.

4Nevertheless, for David’s sake Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to establish his son as his successor and to preserve Jerusalem.

5For David had done what was right in the eyes of Yahweh and throughout his life had not turned aside from anything Yahweh had commanded him, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

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