He reigned over Israel forty years; he reigned in Hebron seven years and in Jerusalem<n id="1" /> thirty-three years.

Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules.<n id="1" />p>

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

<t /><p class="bodytext">Joash was seven years old when he began to reign. He reigned for forty years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother was Zibiah, who was from Beer Sheba.

<p class="bodytext">King Amaziah son of Joash of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of King Joash son of Jehoahaz of Israel.

<t /><p class="bodytext">All the people of Judah took Uzziah,<n id="1" /> who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah&#8217;s place.

This took place to fulfill the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s message delivered through Jeremiah.<n id="1" /> The land experienced<n id="2" /> its sabbatical years;<n id="3" /> it remained desolate for seventy years,<n id="4" /> as prophesied.<n id="5" />p>

We also accept responsibility for<n id="1" /> bringing the first fruits of our land and the first fruits of every fruit tree year by year to the temple of the <sc>LORDsc>.

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

<p class="bodytext">After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

<p class="poetry">For forty years I was continually disgusted<n id="1" /> with that generation,p> <p class="poetry">and I said, &#8216;These people desire to go astray;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">they do not obey my commands.&#8217;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">For Syria&#8217;s leader is Damascus,p> <p class="poetry">and the leader of Damascus is Rezin.p> <p class="poetry">Within sixty-five years Ephraim will no longer exist as a nation.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">For this is what the sovereign master<n id="1" /> has told me: &#8220;Within exactly one year<n id="2" /> all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end.

<p class="bodytext">At the end of seventy years<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> will revive<n id="2" /> Tyre. She will start making money again by selling her services to all the earth&#8217;s kingdoms.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah&#8217;s reign,<n id="1" /> King Sennacherib of Assyria marched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> began to speak to him<n id="2" /> in the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amon ruled over Judah.

This whole area<n id="1" /> will become a desolate wasteland. These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years.&#8217;<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the tenth year that Zedekiah was ruling over Judah the <sc>Lordsc> spoke to Jeremiah.<n id="1" /> That was the same as the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the thirtieth year,<n id="1" /> on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles<n id="2" /> at the Kebar River,<n id="3" /> the heavens opened<n id="4" /> and I saw a divine vision.<n id="5" />

No human foot will pass through it, and no animal&#8217;s foot will pass through it; it will be uninhabited for forty years.