2 Kings 14:16-29

Leeser(i) 16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel: and Jerobo’am his son became king in his stead. 17 And Amazyahu the son of Joash the king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash, the son of Jehoachaz the king of Israel, fifteen years. 18 And the rest of the acts of Amazyahu, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah. 19 Now they raised a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: wherefore he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there. 20 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David. 21 And all the people of Judah took ‘Azaryah, who was sixteen years old, and they made him king instead of his father Amazyahu. 22 He it was that built Elath, and brought it back to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers. 23 In the fifteenth year of Amazyahu the son of Joash the king of Judah became Jerobo’am the son of Joash the king of Israel king in Samaria, for forty and one years. 24 And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord: he departed not from all the sins of Jerobo’am the son of Nebat, who induced Israel to sin. 25 He restored the boundary of Israel from the entrance of Chamath unto the sea of the plain; in accordance with the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he had spoken by means of his servant Jonah the son of Amitthai, the prophet, who was of Gathchepher. 26 For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, which was very bitter; that the guarded was no more, and that the fortified was no more, and there was no helper for Israel. 27 And the Lord had not spoken that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the heavens; but he helped them by means of Jerobo’am the son of Joash. 28 Now the rest of the acts of Jerobo’am, and all that he did, and his mighty deeds, how he warred, and how he brought back Damascus and Chamath, which had belonged to Judah, to Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. 29 And Jerobo’am slept with his fathers, with the kings of Israel: and Zechariah his son became king in his stead.