1In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah, king of Judah, became king.
2He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jekoliah, from Jerusalem.
3He did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
4Only the high places were not removed; the people were still sacrificing and making offerings on the high places.
5Yahweh struck the king, and he was a leper until the day of his death; he lived in a separate house, while Jotham the king’s son was over the household, judging the people of the land.
6As for the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
7Azariah lay down with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David; and Jotham his son became king in his place.
8In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in Samaria for six months.
9He did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh, as his fathers had done; he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.
10Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against him, struck him down before the people, and put him to death; and he reigned in his place.
11As for the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel.
12This was the word of Yahweh that he had spoken to Jehu, saying, “Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.” And so it was.
13Shallum son of Jabesh became king in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned a full month in Samaria.
14Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, came to Samaria, and struck down Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria; he put him to death and reigned in his place.
15As for the rest of the acts of Shallum, and the conspiracy that he made, behold, they are written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel.
16Then Menahem struck down Tiphsah and all who were in it and its territory, from Tirzah, because it did not open to him; so he struck it down, and he ripped open all its pregnant women.
17In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem son of Gadi became king over Israel for ten years in Samaria.
18He did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh; he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, all his days.
19Pul king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver so that his hands would be with him to strengthen the kingdom in his own hand.
20Menahem exacted the silver from Israel, from all the mighty men of wealth, to give to the king of Assyria — fifty shekels of silver for each man. So the king of Assyria turned back and did not stay there in the land.
21As for the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?
22Menahem lay down with his fathers, and Pekahiah his son became king in his place.
23In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah son of Menahem became king over Israel in Samaria for two years.
24He did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh; he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.
25Pekah son of Remaliah, his officer, conspired against him and struck him down in Samaria, in the citadel of the king’s house, along with Argob and Arieh; with him were fifty men of the Gileadites. He put him to death and reigned in his place.
26As for the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel.
27In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king over Israel in Samaria for twenty years.
28He did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh; he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.
29In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, Galilee — all the land of Naphtali — and he carried them into exile to Assyria.
30Hoshea son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah son of Remaliah, struck him down and put him to death, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham son of Uzziah.
31Now the rest of the deeds of Pekah and all that he did—look, they are written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
32In the second year of Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham son of Uzziah, king of Judah, began to reign.
33He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.
34He did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh; he acted according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
35Only the high places were not removed; the people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places. He built the Upper Gate of the house of Yahweh.
36Now the rest of the deeds of Jotham that he did—are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
37In those days Yahweh began to send against Judah Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah.
38And Jotham lay down with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.
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