19. They conspired against him in Jerusalem, so he fled to Lachish. But they sent men after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.
20. Then they carried him on the horses, and he was buried with his ancestors in the city of David.
21. All of the people of Judah took sixteen-year-old Azariah and made him king in place of this father Amaziah.
22. He rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his ancestors.
23. In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Jehoash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Jehoash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, reigning forty-one years.
24. But he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh; he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin.
25. He restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-Hamath up to the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke by the hand of his servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet, who was from Gath-Hepher.
26. For Yahweh saw that the misery of Israel was very bitter, whether bond or free, but there was no helper for Israel.
27. Yahweh did not decree to blot out the name of Israel from under the heavens, so he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Jehoash.