and Amasiah son of Zikri, who volunteered to serve the Lord, led 200,000 skilled warriors.

Jotham passed away ¹  and was buried in the City of David. ²  His son Ahaz replaced him as king.

King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz prayed about this and cried out to heaven.

Prepare yourselves by your families according to your divisions, as instructed ¹  by King David of Israel and his son Solomon.

But you will not build the temple; your very own son will build the temple for my honor.’ ¹ 

Then Solomon passed away ¹  and was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam replaced him as king.

Jehoshaphat passed away ¹  and was buried with his ancestors ²  in the City of David. ³  His son Jehoram ⁴  replaced him as king.

The rest of the events of Uzziah’s reign, from start to finish, were recorded by the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. ¹ 

The people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem. ¹ 

When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard the news, he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon. Jeroboam returned from Egypt.

They supported ¹  the kingdom of Judah and were loyal to ²  Rehoboam son of Solomon for three years; they followed the edicts of ³  David and Solomon for three years.

Lawless good-for-nothing men ¹  gathered around him and conspired ²  against Rehoboam son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was an inexperienced young man ³  and could not resist them.

Zedekiah son of Kenaanah made iron horns and said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘With these you will gore Syria until they are destroyed!’”

Then the king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the city official and Joash the king’s son.

When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line ¹  of Judah. ² 

In one day King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel killed 120,000 warriors in Judah, because they had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors. ¹ 

Zikri, an Ephraimite warrior, killed the king’s son Maaseiah, Azrikam, the supervisor of the palace, and Elkanah, the king’s second-in-command.

There was a great celebration in Jerusalem, unlike anything that had occurred in Jerusalem since the time of King Solomon son of David of Israel. ¹ 

The people of the land executed all who had conspired against King Amon, and they ¹  made his son Josiah king in his place.

In the eighteenth year of his reign, he continued his policy of purifying the land and the temple. ¹  He sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the city official, and Joah son of Joahaz the secretary to repair the temple of the Lord his God.