21 Then all the people of Judah took Azariah,[a](A) who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah. 22 He was the one who rebuilt Elath(B) and restored it to Judah after Amaziah rested with his ancestors.

Jeroboam II King of Israel

23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam(C) son of Jehoash king of Israel became king in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years. 24 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn away from any of the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit.(D) 25 He was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from Lebo Hamath(E) to the Dead Sea,[b](F) in accordance with the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, spoken through his servant Jonah(G) son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.

26 The Lord had seen how bitterly everyone in Israel, whether slave or free,(H) was suffering;[c](I) there was no one to help them.(J) 27 And since the Lord had not said he would blot out(K) the name of Israel from under heaven, he saved(L) them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash.

28 As for the other events of Jeroboam’s reign, all he did, and his military achievements, including how he recovered for Israel both Damascus(M) and Hamath,(N) which had belonged to Judah, are they not written in the book of the annals(O) of the kings of Israel? 29 Jeroboam rested with his ancestors, the kings of Israel. And Zechariah his son succeeded him as king.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 14:21 Also called Uzziah
  2. 2 Kings 14:25 Hebrew the Sea of the Arabah
  3. 2 Kings 14:26 Or Israel was suffering. They were without a ruler or leader, and

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