1. In Jer o boam’s twenty-seventh year as king of Israel, Amaziah’s son Azariah began to rule as king of Judah.
2. He was 16 years old when he began to rule, and he ruled for 52 years in Jerusalem. His mother was Jecoliah from Jerusalem.
3. He did what the Lord considered right, as his father Amaziah had done.
4. But the illegal places of worship were still not torn down. The people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense at these worship sites.
5. The Lord inflicted the king with a skin disease that lasted until the day the king died. So the king lived in a separate house. The king’s son Jotham was in charge of the palace and governed the country.
6. Isn’t everything else about Azariah—everything he did—written in the official records of the kings of Judah?
7. Azariah lay down in death with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David. His son Jotham succeeded him as king.
8. In Azariah’s thirty-eighth year as king of Judah, Jer o boam’s son Zechariah was king of Israel in Samaria for six months.
9. He did what the Lord considered evil, as his ancestors had done. He didn’t turn away from the sins that Jer o boam (Nebat’s son) led Israel to commit.
10. Shallum, son of Jabesh, plotted against Zechariah, attacked him at Kabal Am, killed him, and succeeded him as king.
11. Everything else about Zechariah is written in the official records of the kings of Israel.
12. It happened exactly as the Lord had told Jehu: “Four generations of your descendants will sit on the throne of Israel.”
13. Shallum, son of Jabesh, became king in Azariah’s thirty-ninth year as king of Judah. Shallum ruled for an entire month in Samaria.
14. Then Menahem, son of Gadi, came from Tirzah to Samaria, attacked Shallum (son of Jabesh), killed him, and succeeded him as king.
15. Everything else about Shallum—all about his conspiracy—is written in the official records of the kings of Israel.
16. Then Menahem attacked Tiphsah, everyone there, and its territory. Because the city didn’t open its gates for him, he attacked it and ripped open all its pregnant women.
17. In Azariah’s thirty-ninth year as king of Judah, Menahem, son of Gadi, began to rule as king of Israel. He ruled for 10 years in Samaria.