Lexham English Bible

2 Kings 14:16-24 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

16. Then Jehoash slept with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel, and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.

17. Amaziah the son of Jehoash king of Judah lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.

18. The remainder of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?

19. They conspired against him in Jerusalem, so he fled to Lachish. But they sent men after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.

20. Then they carried him on the horses, and he was buried with his ancestors in the city of David.

21. All of the people of Judah took sixteen-year-old Azariah and made him king in place of this father Amaziah.

22. He rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his ancestors.

23. In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Jehoash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Jehoash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, reigning forty-one years.

24. But he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh; he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin.