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he was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. And his son Jeroboam II
became the next king.
King Amaziah of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of King Jeho
ash of Israel. The rest of the events in Amaziah’s reign are recorded in The
Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.
There was a conspiracy against Amaziah’s life in Jerusalem, and he fled
to Lachish. But his enemies sent assassins after him, and they killed him
there. They brought his body back to Jerusalem on a horse, and he was
buried with his ancestors in the City of David.
All the people of Judah had crowned Amaziah’s s ixteen-year-old son,
Uzziah, as king in place of his father, Amaziah. After his father’s death,
Uzziah rebuilt the town of Elath and restored it to Judah.
Jeroboam II, the son of Jehoash, began to rule over Israel in the fifteenth
year of King Amaziah’s reign in Judah. He reigned in Samaria forty-one
years. He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight. He refused to turn from
the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had led Israel to commit. Jeroboam II
recovered the territories of Israel between L
ebo-hamath and the Dead Sea,
just as the Lord, the God of Israel, had promised through Jonah son of
Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.
For the Lord saw the bitter suffering of everyone in Israel, and that there
was no one in Israel, slave or free, to help them. And because the Lord
had not said he would blot out the name of Israel completely, he used
Jeroboam II, the son of Jehoash, to save them.
The rest of the events in the reign of Jeroboam II and everything he d id—
including the extent of his power, his wars, and how he recovered for Israel
both Damascus and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah—are recorded
in The Book of the History of the Kings of Israel. When Jeroboam II died, he
was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. Then his son Zechariah
became the next king.
Uzziah son of Amaziah began to rule over Judah in the t wenty-seventh
year of the reign of King Jeroboam II of Israel. He was sixteen years old
when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His
mother was Jecoliah from Jerusalem.