Uzziah<n id="1" /> built up Elat and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah<n id="2" /> had passed away.<n id="3" />p>

He did what the <sc>Lordsc> approved, just as his father Amaziah had done.<n id="1" />

The total number of family leaders who led warriors was 2,600.

Jotham passed away<n id="1" /> and was buried in the City of David.<n id="2" /> His son Ahaz replaced him as king.p>

He did what the <sc>Lordsc> approved, just as his ancestor David had done.<n id="1" />p>

Look, our fathers died violently<n id="1" /> and our sons, daughters, and wives were carried off<n id="2" /> because of this.

everyone who has determined to follow God,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.&#8221;<n id="2" />

They made disbursements to the priests listed in the genealogical records by their families, and to the Levites twenty years old and up, according to their duties as assigned to their divisions,

In his pain<n id="1" /> Manasseh<n id="2" /> asked the <sc>Lordsc> his God for mercy<n id="3" /> and truly<n id="4" /> humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.<n id="5" />

Manasseh passed away<n id="1" /> and was buried in his palace. His son Amon replaced him as king.p>

He did not humble himself before the <sc>Lordsc> as his father Manasseh had done.<n id="1" /> Amon was guilty of great sin.<n id="2" />

He did what the <sc>Lordsc> approved<n id="1" /> and followed in his ancestor David&#8217;s footsteps;<n id="2" /> he did not deviate to the right or the left.p>

Prepare yourselves by your families according to your divisions, as instructed<n id="1" /> by King David of Israel and his son Solomon.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in his father&#8217;s place in Jerusalem.<n id="1" />

The young advisers with whom Rehoboam<n id="1" /> had grown up said to him, &#8220;Say this to these people who have said to you, &#8216;Your father made us work hard, but now lighten our burden&#8217;<n id="2" /> &#8211; say this to them: &#8216;I am a lot harsher than my father!<n id="3" />

&#8220;I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made.<n id="1" /> See, I have sent you silver and gold. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Jehoram<n id="1" /> received this letter from Elijah the prophet: &#8220;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> God of your ancestor David says: &#8216;You<n id="2" /> have not followed in the footsteps<n id="3" /> of your father Jehoshaphat and of<n id="4" /> King Asa of Judah,

However, he did not execute their sons. He obeyed the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Fathers must not be executed for what their sons do,<n id="2" /> and sons must not be executed for what their fathers do.<n id="3" /> A man must be executed only for his own sin.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

Uzziah passed away<n id="1" /> and was buried near his ancestors<n id="2" /> in a cemetery<n id="3" /> belonging to the kings. (This was because he had a skin disease.)<n id="4" /> His son Jotham replaced him as king.p>

<p class="bodytext">Solomon addressed all Israel, including those who commanded units of a thousand and a hundred, the judges, and all the leaders of all Israel who were heads of families.