16. Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with Israel's kings. Jeroboam [II] reigned in his stead.
17. Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
18. The rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
19. Now a conspiracy was made against him in Jerusalem, and Amaziah fled to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and slew him there.
20. They brought him on horses and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the City of David.
21. And all the people of Judah took Azariah, sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
22. He built Elath and restored it to Judah after the king [his father] died.
23. In the fifteenth year of Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam [II] son of Jehoash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty-one years.
24. He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam [I] son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.
25. Jeroboam restored Israel's border from the entrance of Hamath to the [Dead] Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, which He spoke through His servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.
26. For the Lord saw as very bitter the affliction of Israel; there was no one left, bond or free, nor any helper for Israel.