1In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.
2He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
3He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.
4But the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
5The LORD struck the king, so that he was a leper until the day he died, and he lived in a separate house. Jotham the king's son was over the palace, and he judged the people of the land.
6The rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
7So Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David. Jotham his son reigned in his place.
8In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria for six months.
9He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin.
10Shallum the son of Jabesh plotted against him. He struck him down in front of the people and killed him, and reigned in his place.
11The rest of the acts of Zachariah are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
12This was the word of the LORD which he spoke to Jehu: "Your sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation." And so it happened.
13Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned a full month in Samaria.
14For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah and came to Samaria. He struck down Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria and killed him, and reigned in his place.
15The rest of the acts of Shallum, and the plot that he made, are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
16Then Menahem attacked Tiphsah and everyone in it, and its borders from Tirzah. He attacked it because they did not open the gates to him. And he ripped open all the pregnant women in it.
17In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel, and he reigned ten years in Samaria.
18He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. All his days he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin.
19Pul the king of Assyria came against the land. Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, so that Pul would help him and make the kingdom firm in his hand.
20Menahem got the money from Israel, from all the wealthy and powerful men, fifty shekels of silver from each man, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and did not stay there in the land.
21The rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
22Menahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahiah his son reigned in his place.
23In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned two years.
24He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin.
25But Pekah the son of Remaliah, one of his captains, plotted against him. He struck him down in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, along with Argob and Arieh, and fifty men of Gilead were with him. He killed him and reigned in his place.
26The rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
27In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twenty years.
28He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin.
29In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglathpileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abelbethmaachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people away captive to Assyria.
30Hoshea the son of Elah made a plot against Pekah the son of Remaliah. He struck him down and killed him, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
31The rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
32In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah began to reign.
33He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
34He did what was right in the sight of the LORD. He did just as his father Uzziah had done.
35But the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD.
36Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
37In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
38Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father. Ahaz his son reigned in his place.