1. IN THE twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam [II] king of Israel, Azariah (Uzziah) son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.
2. He was sixteen years old when he began his fifty-two-year reign in Jerusalem. His mother was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
3. He did right in the Lord's sight, in keeping with all his father Amaziah had done–
4. Except the high places were not removed; the people sacrificed and burned incense still on the high places.
5. And the Lord smote the king, so that he was a leper to his dying day, and dwelt in a separate house. Jotham the king's son was over the household, judging the people of the land. [II Chron. 26:16-21.]
6. The rest of Azariah's acts, all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
7. Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with them in the City of David. Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
8. In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah Zechariah son of Jeroboam [II] reigned over Israel in Samaria six months.
9. He did evil in the sight of the Lord, as his fathers had done; he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam [I] son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.
10. Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against Zechariah and struck and killed him before the people and reigned in his stead.
11. The rest of the acts of Zechariah, see, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
12. This was the fulfillment of the promise to Jehu from the Lord: Your sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation. And so it came to pass. [II Kings 10:30.]
13. Shallum son of Jabesh, in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, began his reign of a full month in Samaria.
14. For Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah and came to Samaria, and smote and killed Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria and reigned in his stead.
15. The rest of Shallum's acts, his conspiracy, see, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
16. Then Menahem smote Tiphsah and all who were in it and its territory from Tirzah on; he attacked it because they did not open to him. And all the women there who were with child he ripped up.