Jehoiada<n id="1" /> led out the king&#8217;s son and placed on him the crown and the royal insignia.<n id="2" /> They proclaimed him king and poured olive oil on his head.<n id="3" /> They clapped their hands and cried out, &#8220;Long live the king!&#8221;p>

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>. He continued in<n id="2" /> the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who had encouraged Israel to sin; he did not repudiate those sins.<n id="3" />

The <sc>Lordsc> was furious with<n id="1" /> Israel and handed them over to<n id="2" /> King Hazael of Syria and to Hazael&#8217;s son Ben Hadad for many years.<n id="3" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc> provided a deliverer<n id="1" /> for Israel and they were freed from Syria&#8217;s power.<n id="2" /> The Israelites once more lived in security.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the thirty-seventh year of King Joash&#8217;s reign over Judah, Jehoahaz&#8217;s son Jehoash became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria<n id="1" /> for sixteen years.

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>. He did not repudiate<n id="2" /> the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin; he continued in those sins.<n id="3" />

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.

Jehoash passed away<n id="1" /> and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. His son Jeroboam replaced him as king.)p>

All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah&#8217;s place.

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>; he did not repudiate<n id="2" /> the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

The <sc>Lordsc> had not decreed that he would blot out Israel&#8217;s memory<n id="1" /> from under heaven,<n id="2" /> so he delivered them through Jeroboam son of Joash.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the twenty-seventh year of King Jeroboam&#8217;s reign over Israel, Amaziah&#8217;s son Azariah became king over Judah.

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.

Azariah passed away<n id="1" /> and was buried<n id="2" /> with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Jotham replaced him as king.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the thirty-eighth year of King Azariah&#8217;s reign over Judah, Jeroboam&#8217;s son Zechariah became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria<n id="1" /> for six months.

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, as his ancestors had done. He did not repudiate<n id="2" /> the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

His assassination brought to fulfillment the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s word to Jehu,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel.&#8221;<n id="2" /> That is exactly what happened.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Shallum son of Jabesh became king in the thirty-ninth year of King Uzziah&#8217;s<n id="1" /> reign over Judah. He reigned for one month<n id="2" /> in Samaria.

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the thirty-ninth year of King Azariah&#8217;s reign over Judah, Menahem son of Gadi became king over Israel. He reigned for twelve years in Samaria.<n id="1" />

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>; he did not repudiate<n id="2" /> the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.<n id="3" />p> <p class="bodytext">During his reign,