When the king arrived back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and offered a sacrifice on it.

The gatekeepers relayed the news to the royal palace.

When King Hezekiah’s servants came to Isaiah,

You must surround the king. Each of you must hold his weapon in his hand. Whoever approaches your ranks must be killed. You must accompany the king wherever he goes.”

Jehoiada led out the king’s son and placed on him the crown and the royal insignia. They proclaimed him king and poured olive oil on his head. They clapped their hands and cried out, “Long live the king!”

Jehoiada then drew up a covenant between the Lord and the king and people, stipulating that they should be loyal to the Lord.

So Uriah the priest did exactly as King Ahaz ordered.

Amon’s servants conspired against him and killed the king in his palace.

The king summoned all the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem.

At that time King Jehoram left Samaria and assembled all Israel for war.

So they picked two horsemen and the king sent them out to track the Syrian army. He ordered them, “Go and find out what’s going on.”

They seized her and took her into the precincts of the royal palace through the horses’ entrance. There she was executed.

When he had secured control of the kingdom, he executed the servants who had assassinated his father.

Azariah built up Elat and restored it to Judah after the king had passed away.

Hezekiah gave him all the silver in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace.

When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the Lord’s temple.

When the king heard the words of the law scroll, he tore his clothes.

They captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where he passed sentence on him.

The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, “Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.”

So Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah, took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked him away from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. So he was hidden from Athaliah and escaped execution.