13. King Jehoash of Israel captured Judah’s king, Amaziah son of Joash and grandson of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh. Then he marched to Jerusalem, where he demolished 600 feet of Jerusalem’s wall, from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate.
14. He carried off all the gold and silver and all the articles from the Temple of the lord. He also seized the treasures from the royal palace, along with hostages, and then returned to Samaria.
15. The rest of the events in Jehoash’s reign and everything he did, including the extent of his power and his war with King Amaziah of Judah, are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.
16. When Jehoash died, he was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. And his son Jeroboam II became the next king.
17. King Amaziah of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of King Jehoash of Israel.
18. The rest of the events in Amaziah’s reign are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.
19. There was a conspiracy against Amaziah’s life in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But his enemies sent assassins after him, and they killed him there.
20. They brought his body back to Jerusalem on a horse, and he was buried with his ancestors in the City of David.
21. All the people of Judah had crowned Amaziah’s sixteen-year-old son, Uzziah, as king in place of his father, Amaziah.
22. After his father’s death, Uzziah rebuilt the town of Elath and restored it to Judah.
23. Jeroboam II, the son of Jehoash, began to rule over Israel in the fifteenth year of King Amaziah’s reign in Judah. He reigned in Samaria forty-one years.