He reigned over Israel forty years; he reigned in Hebron seven years and in Jerusalem thirty-three years.

Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules.

Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.

Joash was seven years old when he began to reign. He reigned for forty years in Jerusalem. His mother was Zibiah, who was from Beer Sheba.

King Amaziah son of Joash of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of King Joash son of Jehoahaz of Israel.

All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place.

This took place to fulfill the Lord’s message delivered through Jeremiah. The land experienced its sabbatical years; it remained desolate for seventy years, as prophesied.

We also accept responsibility for bringing the first fruits of our land and the first fruits of every fruit tree year by year to the temple of the LORD.

to have them observe the fourteenth and the fifteenth day of the month of Adar each year

After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said, ‘These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.’

For Syria’s leader is Damascus, and the leader of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will no longer exist as a nation.

For this is what the sovereign master has told me: “Within exactly one year all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end.

At the end of seventy years the Lord will revive Tyre. She will start making money again by selling her services to all the earth’s kingdoms.

In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, King Sennacherib of Assyria marched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

The Lord began to speak to him in the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amon ruled over Judah.

This whole area will become a desolate wasteland. These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years.’

In the tenth year that Zedekiah was ruling over Judah the Lord spoke to Jeremiah. That was the same as the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles at the Kebar River, the heavens opened and I saw a divine vision.

No human foot will pass through it, and no animal’s foot will pass through it; it will be uninhabited for forty years.