12. Judah was defeated by Israel, and each man ran back home.
13. King Jehoash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah, son of Jehoash son of Ahaziah, in Beth Shemesh. He attacked Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate – a distance of about six hundred feet.
14. He took away all the gold and silver, all the items found in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace, and some hostages. Then he went back to Samaria.(
15. The rest of the events of Jehoash’s reign, including all his accomplishments and his successful war with King Amaziah of Judah, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel.
16. Jehoash passed away and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. His son Jeroboam replaced him as king.)
17. King Amaziah son of Joash of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of King Jehoash son of Jehoahaz of Israel.
18. The rest of the events of Amaziah’s reign are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.
19. Conspirators plotted against him in Jerusalem, so he fled to Lachish. But they sent assassins after him and they killed him there.
20. His body was carried back by horses and he was buried in Jerusalem with his ancestors in the city of David.
21. All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place.
22. Azariah built up Elat and restored it to Judah after the king had passed away.
23. In the fifteenth year of the reign of Judah’s King Amaziah, son of Joash, Jeroboam son of Joash became king over Israel. He reigned for forty-one years in Samaria.
24. He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.
25. He restored the border of Israel from Lebo Hamath in the north to the sea of the Arabah in the south, in accordance with the word of the Lord God of Israel announced through his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.
26. The Lord saw Israel’s intense suffering; everyone was weak and incapacitated and Israel had no deliverer.
27. The Lord had not decreed that he would blot out Israel’s memory from under heaven, so he delivered them through Jeroboam son of Joash.