² He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of ^(A)Israel.^[a]

⁵ And he gathered the priests and the Levites and said to them, “Go out to the cities of ^(A)Judah and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that you act quickly.” But the Levites did not act quickly.

² And they went about through ^(A)Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers' houses of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

⁶ Then the princes of ^(A)Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, ^(B)“The Lord is righteous.”

^18 (A)No Passover like it had been kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel had kept such a Passover as was kept by Josiah, and the priests and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

¹⁸ Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and ^(A)his prayer to his God, and the words of ^(B)the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, behold, they are in the ^(C)Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

²⁷ And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for ^(A)they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

²³ For ^(A)he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, ^(B)“Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel.

¹⁹ For the Lord humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had made ^(A)Judah act sinfully^[a] and had been very unfaithful to the Lord.

¹⁶ And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.