12. Judah was routed by Israel, and every man fled to his home.
13. Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh. Then Jehoash went to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section about four hundred cubits long.
14. He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the temple of the Lord and in the treasuries of the royal palace. He also took hostages and returned to Samaria.
15. As for the other events of the reign of Jehoash, what he did and his achievements, including his war against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?
16. Jehoash rested with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. And Jeroboam his son succeeded him as king.
17. Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.
18. As for the other events of Amaziah’s reign, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
19. They conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish, but they sent men after him to Lachish and killed him there.
20. He was brought back by horse and was buried in Jerusalem with his ancestors, in the City of David.
21. Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
22. He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after Amaziah rested with his ancestors.
23. In the fifteenth year of Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam son of Jehoash king of Israel became king in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years.
24. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn away from any of the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit.
25. He was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from Lebo Hamath to the Dead Sea, in accordance with the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, spoken through his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.
26. The Lord had seen how bitterly everyone in Israel, whether slave or free, was suffering; there was no one to help them.
27. And since the Lord had not said he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash.