17. Joash’s son King Amaziah of Judah lived 15 years after the death of Jehoahaz’s son King Jehoash of Israel.
18. Isn’t everything else about Amaziah written in the official records of the kings of Judah?
19. Conspirators in Jerusalem plotted against him, so he fled to Lachish. But they sent men to Lachish after him and killed him there.
20. They brought him back by horse, and he was buried in Jerusalem, in the City of David, with his ancestors.
21. All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was 16 years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
22. Azariah rebuilt Elath and returned it to Judah after King Amaziah lay down in death with his ancestors.
23. Joash’s son Amaziah was in his fifteenth year as king of Judah when Jehoash’s son King Jer o boam of Israel began to rule in Samaria. Jer o boam ruled for 41 years.
24. He did what the Lord considered evil. He didn’t turn away from any of the sins that Jer o boam (Nebat’s son) led Israel to commit.
25. He restored Israel’s boundaries from the border of Hamath to the Dead Sea as the Lord God of Israel predicted through his servant Jonah, the prophet from Gath Hepher and the son of Amittai.
26. The Lord did this because he saw how bitterly everyone in Israel was suffering. No slave or free person could help Israel.