17. Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
18. Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
19. They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.
20. They brought him on horses, and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in David’s city.
21. All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
22. He built Elath, and restored it to Judah. After that the king slept with his fathers.
23. In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria for forty-one years.
24. He did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight. He didn’t depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.