17. Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, survived Joash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, by fifteen years.
18. The rest of the acts of Amaziah are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.
19. When a conspiracy was formed against him in Jerusalem, he fled to Lachish. But he was pursued to Lachish and killed there.
20. He was brought back on horses and was buried in Jerusalem with his ancestors in the City of David.
21. Thereupon all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was only sixteen years old, and made him king to succeed Amaziah, his father.
22. It was he who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king rested with his ancestors.
23. In the fifteenth year of Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam, son of Joash, king of Israel, became king in Samaria for forty-one years.
24. He did evil in the Lord’s sight; he did not desist from any of the sins that Jeroboam, son of Nebat, had caused Israel to commit.