2 Kings 15

¹In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboʹam king of Israel Azariʹah the son of Amaziʹah, king of Judah, began to reign. ²He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliʹah of Jerusalem. ³And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziʹah had done. ⁴Nevertheless the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. ⁵And the Lord smote the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and he dwelt in a separate house. And Jotham the king’s son was over the household, governing the people of the land. ⁶Now the rest of the acts of Azariʹah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? ⁷And Azariʹah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

⁸In the thirty-eighth year of Azariʹah king of Judah Zechariʹah the son of Jeroboʹam reigned over Israel in Samarʹia six months. ⁹And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his fathers had done. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboʹam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin. ¹⁰Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him down at Ibleam, and killed him, and reigned in his stead. ¹¹Now the rest of the deeds of Zechariʹah, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. ¹²(This was the promise of the Lord which he gave to Jehu, “Your sons shall sit upon the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.” And so it came to pass.)

¹³Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziʹah king of Judah, and he reigned one month in Samarʹia. ¹⁴Then Menʹahem the son of Gadi came up from Tirzah and came to Samarʹia, and he struck down Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samarʹia and slew him, and reigned in his stead. ¹⁵Now the rest of the deeds of Shallum, and the conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. ¹⁶At that time Menʹahem sacked Tappuah and all who were in it and its territory from Tirzah on; because they did not open it to him, therefore he sacked it, and he ripped up all the women in it who were with child.

¹⁷In the thirty-ninth year of Azariʹah king of Judah Menʹahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel, and he reigned ten years in Samarʹia. ¹⁸And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not depart all his days from all the sins of Jeroboʹam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin. ¹⁹Pul the king of Assyria came against the land; and Menʹahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold of the royal power. ²⁰Menʹahem exacted the money from Israel, that is, from all the wealthy men, fifty shekels of silver from every man, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and did not stay there in the land. ²¹Now the rest of the deeds of Menʹahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? ²²And Menʹahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahiʹah his son reigned in his stead.

²³In the fiftieth year of Azariʹah king of Judah Pekahiʹah the son of Menʹahem began to reign over Israel in Samarʹia, and he reigned two years. ²⁴And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboʹam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin. ²⁵And Pekah the son of Remaliʹah, his captain, conspired against him with fifty men of the Gileadites, and slew him in Samarʹia, in the citadel of the king’s house; he slew him, and reigned in his stead. ²⁶Now the rest of the deeds of Pekahiʹah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

²⁷In the fifty-second year of Azariʹah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliʹah began to reign over Israel in Samarʹia, and he reigned twenty years. ²⁸And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboʹam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.

²⁹In the days of Pekah king of Israel Tigʹlath-pileʹser king of Assyria came and captured Iʹjon, Aʹbel-beth-maʹacah, Jan-oʹah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphʹtali; and he carried the people captive to Assyria. ³⁰Then Hosheʹa the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliʹah, and struck him down, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziʹah. ³¹Now 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.

³²In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliʹah, king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziʹah, king of Judah, began to reign. ³³He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jeruʹsha the daughter of Zadok. ³⁴And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Uzziʹah had done. ³⁵Nevertheless the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord. ³⁶Now 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? ³⁷In those days the Lord began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliʹah against Judah. ³⁸Jotham 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.