He was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for eight years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" />

Conspirators plotted against him in Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> so he fled to Lachish. But they sent assassins after him<n id="2" /> and they killed him there.

His body was carried back by horses<n id="1" /> and he was buried in Jerusalem with his ancestors in the city of David.

He built altars in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, about which the <sc>Lordsc> had said, &#8220;Jerusalem will be my home.&#8221;<n id="1" />

But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah&#8217;s reign, such a Passover of the <sc>Lordsc> was observed in Jerusalem.p>

Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter<n id="2" /> of King Omri of Israel.

<v id="(12:2)" /> In Jehu&#8217;s seventh year Jehoash became king; he reigned for forty years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother was Zibiah, who was from Beer Sheba.

He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother<n id="2" /> was Jehoaddan, who was from Jerusalem.

He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother&#8217;s name was Jecholiah, who was from Jerusalem.

He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> He did not do what pleased the <sc>Lordsc> his God, in contrast to his ancestor David.<n id="2" />

He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother<n id="2" /> was Abi,<n id="3" /> the daughter of Zechariah.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother<n id="2" /> was Hephzibah.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother<n id="2" /> was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz, from Jotbah.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother<n id="2" /> was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah, from Bozkath.

(Now the priests of the high places did not go up to the altar of the <sc>Lordsc> in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened cakes among their fellow priests.)<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother<n id="2" /> was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.

Pharaoh Necho imprisoned him in Riblah in the land of Hamath and prevented him from ruling in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> He imposed on the land a special tax<n id="2" /> of one hundred talents<n id="3" /> of silver and a talent of gold.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah, from Rumah.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother<n id="2" /> was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan, from Jerusalem.