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.
24. He did what was evil in the lord’s sight. He refused to turn from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had led Israel to commit.
25. Jeroboam II recovered the territories of Israel between Lebo-hamath and the Dead Sea, just as the lord, the God of Israel, had promised through Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.
26. For the lord saw the bitter suffering of everyone in Israel, and that there was no one in Israel, slave or free, to help them.