2 Kings 14:21-29 ▼

21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah—and he was a son of sixteen years—and they made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

22 He built Elath and brought it back to Judah after the king rested with his fathers.

23 In the fifth year and tenth year of Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria, forty-one years.

24 And he did evil in the eyes of YHWH; he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin.

25 He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of YHWH, God of Israel, which He had spoken through His servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet who was from Gath-hepher.

26 For YHWH saw the affliction of Israel—very bitter—and there was none restrained and none set free, and no helper for Israel.

27 And YHWH had not spoken to blot out the name of Israel from under the heavens, and He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Joash.

28 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might with which he made war and with which he brought back Damascus and Hamath of Judah into Israel, are they not written in the Book of the Words of the Days of the Kings of Israel?

29 And Jeroboam rested with his fathers, with the kings of Israel. And Zechariah his son reigned in his place.