16. And Yehoash slept with his avot, and was buried in Shomron with the Malkhei Yisroel; and Yarov`am bno reigned in his place.
17. Amatzyah Ben Yoash Melech Yehudah lived after the mot Yehoash Ben Yehoachaz Melech Yisroel 15 shanah.
18. And the rest of the acts of Amatzyah, are they not written in the Sefer Divrei HaYimim L'Malkhei Yehudah?
19. Now they plotted kesher against him in Yerushalayim; he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and assassinated him there.
20. And they brought him back on susim; and he was buried at Yerushalayim with his avot in Ir Dovid.
21. And kol Am Yehudah took Azaryah, who was 16 years old, and made him Melech in the place of aviv Amatzyah.
22. He rebuilt Eilat, restored it to Yehudah; after that HaMelech slept with his avot.
23. In the 15th year of Amatzyah Ben Yoash Melech Yehudah, Yarov`am Ben Yoash Melech Yisroel began to reign as Melech in Shomron, and reigned 41 shanah.
24. And he did that which was rah in the eyes of Hashem; he departed not from all the chattot Yarov`am Ben Nevat, who caused Yisroel to commit sin.
25. He restored the boundary of Yisroel from the entrance of Chamat unto the yam of the Aravah, according to the Devar Hashem Elohei Yisroel, which He spoke by the yad of His Eved HaNavi Yonah Ben Amittai, who was of Gat HaChefer.
26. For Hashem saw the oni Yisroel, that it was mar me'od (very bitter) for there was neither atzur (slave) nor azuv (free), no ozer (helper) at all for Yisroel.
27. And Hashem had not said that He would blot out the shem of Yisroel from under Shomayim; but He saved them by the yad Yarov`am Ben Yoash.
28. Now the rest of the acts of Yarov`am, and all that he did, and his gevurah, how he warred, and how he won back Damascus and Chamat from Yehudah for Yisroel, are they not written in the Sefer Divrei HaYamim L'Malkhei Yisroel?
29. And Yarov`am slept with his avot, even with the malkhei Yisroel; and Zecharyah bno reigned as Melech in his place.