26. The Lord did this because he saw how bitterly everyone in Israel was suffering. No slave or free person could help Israel.
27. Since the Lord had said he was not going to wipe out Israel’s name completely, he saved them through Jer o boam, son of Jehoash.
28. Isn’t everything else about Jer o boam—everything he did, his heroic acts when he fought, how he recovered Damascus and Hamath for Israel —written in the official records of the kings of Israel?
29. Jer o boam lay down in death with his ancestors, the kings of Israel. His son Zechariah succeeded him as king.