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Chapter 15 |
| 1 | In the twenty
and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king
of Judah to reign. |
| 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. |
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3 | And he did that which was right in the
sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
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| 4 | Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and
burnt incense still on the high places. |
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5 | And the LORD smote the king,
so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house.
And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the people of the
land. |
| 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?
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 10 |
And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote
him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead. |
| 11 | And
the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel. |
| 12 | This was the word of the LORD
which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel
unto the fourth generation. And so it came to pass. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
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.
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| 16 | Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts
thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and
all the women therein that were with child he ripped up. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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?
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| 22 | And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his
stead. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 29 | In the days of Pekah king of Israel came
Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah,
and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and
carried them captive to Assyria. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 35 | Howbeit
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. |
| 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?
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| 37 | In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of
Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah. |
| 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. |
