15:1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel
began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
15:2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he
reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
[was] Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
15:3 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
15:4 Save that the high places were not removed: the people
sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
15:5 And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper to the
day of his death, and dwelt in a separate house. And Jotham the
king's son [was] over the house, judging the people of the
land.
15:6 And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
15:7 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with
his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in
his stead.
15:8 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did
Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six
months.
15:9 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD,
as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
15:10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and
smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his
stead.
15:11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold they [are]
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
15:12 This [was] the word of the LORD which he spoke to Jehu,
saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the
fourth [generation]. And so it came to pass.
15:13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and
thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full
month in Samaria.
15:14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came
to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and
slew him, and reigned in his stead.
15:15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy
which he made, behold, they [are] written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel.
15:16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that [were] in it, and
the borders of it from Tirzah: because they opened not [to
him], therefore he smote [it]; [and] all the women in it that
were with child he ripped up.
15:17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah
began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, [and
reigned] ten years in Samaria.
15:18 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD:
he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son
of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
15:19 [And] Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and
Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand
might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
15:20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, [even] of all the
mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to
give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned
back, and stayed not there in the land.
15:21 And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel?
15:22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son
reigned in his stead.
15:23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah
the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and
reigned] two years.
15:24 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD:
he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
made Israel to sin.
15:25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired
against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the
king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of
the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
15:26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did,
behold, they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel.
15:27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah,
Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in
Samaria, [and reigned] twenty years.
15:28 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD:
he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
made Israel to sin.
15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser
king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and
Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the
land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
15:30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah
the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned
in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of
Uzziah.
15:31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did,
behold, they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel.
15:32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of
Israel, began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
15:33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign,
and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name [was] Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
15:34 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
15:35 Yet, the high places were not removed: the people
sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He
built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
15:36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
15:37 In those days the LORD began to send against Judah, Rezin
the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
15:38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David his father: And Ahaz his son
reigned in his stead.
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