18-20. some people in Jerusalem plotted against Amaziah. He was able to escape to the town of Lachish, but another group of people caught him and killed him there. His body was taken back to Jerusalem on horseback and buried beside his ancestors.Everything else Amaziah did while he was king is written in The History of the Kings of Judah.
21. After his death the people of Judah made his son Azariah king, even though he was only sixteen at the time.
22. Azariah was the one who later recaptured and rebuilt the town of Elath.
23. Jeroboam son of Jehoash became king of Israel in the fifteenth year of Amaziah's rule in Judah. Jeroboam ruled forty-one years from Samaria.
24. He disobeyed the Lord by following the evil example of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused the Israelites to sin.
25. Jeroboam extended the boundaries of Israel from Lebo-Hamath in the north to the Dead Sea in the south, just as the Lord had promised his servant Jonah son of Amittai, who was a prophet from Gath-Hepher.
26. The Lord helped Jeroboam do this because he had seen how terribly the Israelites were suffering, whether slave or free, and no one was left to help them.
27. And since the Lord had promised that he would not let Israel be completely destroyed, he helped Jeroboam rescue them.
28. Everything else Jeroboam did while he was king, including his brave deeds and how he recaptured the towns of Damascus and Hamath, is written in The History of the Kings of Israel.
29. Jeroboam died and was buried, and his son Zechariah became king.