16. So Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.
17. Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.
18. And the rest of the deeds of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
19. They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.
20. They carried him on horses, and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the City of David.
21. All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
22. He built Elath and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his fathers.
23. In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, became king in Samaria for forty-one years.
24. He did evil in the sight of the Lord. He did not turn aside from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.
25. He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Lebo Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which He spoke by His servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath Hepher.
26. For the Lord saw the very bitter affliction of Israel. There was no one left, imprisoned or free, and no helper for Israel.
27. The Lord had not said that He would wipe out the name of Israel from under heaven, so He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Joash.