2 Kings 14:23-29

Evangelical Heritage Version

Jeroboam II, Son of Jehoash, King of Israel

²³ In the fifteenth year of Amaziah son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel, became king in Samaria for forty-one years. ²⁴ He did evil in the eyes of the Lord. He did not turn from all the sins which Jeroboam son of Nebat caused Israel to commit. ²⁵ It was he who restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo Hamath to the Dead Sea^[a] according to the word which the Lord, the God of Israel, had spoken through his servant, the prophet Jonah son of Amittai, who was from Gath Hepher.

²⁶ The Lord saw the misery of Israel, which was extremely bitter for both bound and free.^[b] There was no one to help Israel. ²⁷ Since the Lord had not said that he would wipe the name of Israel from under the heavens, he rescued them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Joash.

²⁸ As for the rest of Jeroboam’s acts and everything he did and his mighty deeds, the wars he fought, and how he recovered Damascus and Hamath (which had belonged to Judah) for Israel, are they not written in the annals of the kings of Israel? ²⁹ Jeroboam rested with his fathers, the kings of Israel. Then his son Zechariah became king in his place.