2 Kings 14:23-29

Expanded Bible

Jeroboam King of Israel

²³ Jeroboam son of Jehoash became king of Israel in Samaria during the fifteenth year Amaziah was king of Judah. (Amaziah was the son of Joash.) Jeroboam ·ruled [reigned] forty-one years, ²⁴ and he did ·what the Lord said was wrong [^Levil in the eyes/sight of the Lord]. Jeroboam son of Nebat had led Israel to sin, and Jeroboam son of Jehoash did not ·stop doing [depart/turn away from] the same sins. ²⁵ Jeroboam ·won back [restored] Israel’s border from Lebo Hamath to the ·Dead Sea [^LSea of Arabah]. This happened ·as [^Lin accordance with the word of] the Lord, the God of Israel, ·had said [spoken] through his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher. ²⁶ The Lord had seen how the Israelites suffered bitterly, and no one, slave or free, could help them. ²⁷ The Lord had not said he would ·completely destroy [blot out; eradicate] Israel from the world, so he ·saved [rescued; ^Tdelivered] the Israelites through Jeroboam son of Jehoash.

²⁸ Everything else Jeroboam did—all his ·victories [achievements; power] and how he ·won back [recovered] from Judah the towns of Damascus and Hamath for Israel—·is [^LIs not all this…?] written in the book of the ·history [chronicles; annals; 1:18] of the kings of Israel. ²⁹ Jeroboam ·died and was buried with his ancestors [^Llay down/^Tslept with his fathers/ancestors], the kings of Israel. Jeroboam’s son Zechariah became king in his place.