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Version 0.33.105, 15 February 2024

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2 Kings Chapter 15

1In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah, the king of Judah, started to reign. 2He was sixteen years old when he started to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem for fifty-two years. And his mother's name was Jecholiah from Jerusalem. 3And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, like everything that Amaziah his father did. 4However, the idolatrous raised sites were not removed. The people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the idolatrous raised sites. 5And the Lord struck the king, and he became a leper up to the day of his death, and he stayed in the infirmary, and Jotham the king's son was in charge of the house, judging the people of the land. 6And the rest of the affairs of Azariah, and everything he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 7And Azariah lay with his fathers, and with his fathers in the City of David they buried him. And Jotham his son reigned in his place. 8In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam started to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he did so for six months. 9And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as his fathers did. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin. 10And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him and struck him down in public and killed him, and he reigned in place of him. 11And as for the rest of the affairs of Zechariah, they are to be seen written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. 12That was the word of the Lord which he spoke to Jehu when he said, “Your descendants to the fourth generation will sit on the throne of Israel.” And it was so. 13Shallum the son of Jabesh started to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned for a full month in Samaria. 14Then Menahem the son of Gadi from Tirzah went up and came to Samaria and struck Shallum the son of Jabesh down in Samaria, and he killed him, and he reigned in place of him. 15And as for the rest of the affairs of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, they are to be seen written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. 16Then Menahem attacked Tiphsah and everyone in it, and its territories by Tirzah. Because it did not open up, he attacked it, and he ripped all its pregnant women open. 17In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi started to reign over Israel, and he did so for ten years in Samaria. 18And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who caused Israel to sin, all his days. 19Pul king of Assyria came to the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, so that he would have the support to strengthen his grip on the kingdom. 20And Menahem raised the money with a levy on Israel, on all valiant warriors, to give it to the king of Assyria – fifty shekels of silver per person – then the king of Assyria returned and did not stay there in the land. 21And the rest of the affairs of Menahem, and everything he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 22And Menahem lay 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 started to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he did so for two years. 24And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin. 25And Pekah the son of Remaliah, an adjutant of his, conspired against him and struck him down in Samaria, in the palace of the king's residence, with Argob and with Arieh, and with him fifty men from the sons of the Gileadites. And he killed him, and he reigned in place of him. 26And as for the rest of the affairs of Pekahiah, and everything he did, they are to be seen 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 started to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he did so for twenty years. 28And he did evil in the sight of the Lord. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin. 29In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon and Abel-Beth-Maachah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee – all the land of Naphtali – and he deported them to Assyria. 30Then Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and he struck him down and killed him, and he reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. 31And as for the rest of the affairs of Pekah, and everything he did, they are to be seen written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. 32In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah started to reign as the king of Judah. 33He was twenty-five years old when he started to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem for sixteen years. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok. 34And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord. He acted according to everything that Uzziah his father did. 35However, the idolatrous raised sites were not removed. The people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the idolatrous raised sites. He built the upper gate to the house of the Lord. 36And the rest of the exploits of Jotham which he undertook, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 37In those days the Lord started sending Rezin king of Aramaea, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, against Judah. 38And Jotham lay with his fathers, and with his fathers he was buried, in the City of David his father, and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.
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