2 Kings 15
1 In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign.
2 He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah, from Jerusalem.
3 He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.
4 However, the shrines on the hills were not removed; the people still offered sacrifices and burned incense at the hill shrines.
5 The LORD struck the king, and he became leprous until the day he died. He lived in a house set apart, while Jotham, the king’s son, was in charge of the palace and judged the people of the land.
6 The rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
7 Azariah lay down with his ancestors, and they buried him with his ancestors in the City of David. Jotham his son reigned in his place.
8 In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned for six months.
9 He did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD, as his ancestors had done. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.
10 Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against him, struck him down in public, and killed him. He reigned in his place.
11 The rest of the acts of Zechariah are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
12 This was the word of the LORD that he had spoken to Jehu: “Your descendants to the fourth generation will sit on the throne of Israel.” And so it happened.
13 Shallum son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned for one month in Samaria.
14 Menahem son of Gadi came up from Tirzah, reached Samaria, struck Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria, killed him, and reigned in his place.
15 The rest of the acts of Shallum, and the conspiracy he plotted, are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
16 Then Menahem struck Tiphsah and everyone in it, along with its surrounding territory, starting from Tirzah, because they did not open their gates to him. He struck it and ripped open all the pregnant women there.
17 In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem son of Gadi began to reign over Israel, and he reigned for ten years in Samaria.
18 He did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, throughout all his days.
19 Pul king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver so that he would support him and secure the kingdom in his hands.
20 Menahem raised this silver from Israel—from all the men of standing, fifty shekels of silver from each man—to give to the king of Assyria. Then the king of Assyria withdrew and did not remain in the land.
21 The rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
22 Menahem lay down with his ancestors, and Pekahiah his son reigned in his place.
23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned for two years.
24 He did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.
25 Pekah son of Remaliah, his officer, conspired against him and struck him in Samaria, in the fortress of the king’s palace, along with Argob and Arieh. Fifty men from Gilead were with him. He killed Pekahiah and reigned in his place.
26 The rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
27 In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned for twenty years.
28 He did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.
29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee—all the land of Naphtali—and deported the people to Assyria.
30 Hoshea son of Elah plotted a conspiracy against Pekah son of Remaliah. He struck him down and killed him, then reigned in his place in the twentieth year of Jotham son of Uzziah.
31 The rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
32 In the second year of Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel, Jotham son of Uzziah, king of Judah, began to reign.
33 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerusha, daughter of Zadok.
34 He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. He did everything his father Uzziah had done.
35 However, the hill shrines were not removed; the people still offered sacrifices and burned incense at the hill shrines. He was the one who built the upper gate of the house of the LORD.
36 The rest of the acts of Jotham, what he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
37 In those days the LORD began to send Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah.
38 Jotham lay down with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David his ancestor. Ahaz his son reigned in his place.
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