Pekah Reigns in Israel
27 In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twenty years.
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And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
1which he made Israel to sin.
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In the days of Pekah king of Israel,
2Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured
3Ijon,
4Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah,
5Kedesh,
6Hazor, Gilead, and
7Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.
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Then Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah and struck him down and put him to death and reigned in his place,
8in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
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Now the rest of the acts of Pekah and all that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
Jotham Reigns in Judah
32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, began to reign.
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He was
9twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.
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And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord,
10according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
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11Nevertheless, the high places were not removed. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. He built
12the upper gate of the house of the Lord.
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Now the rest of the acts of Jotham and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
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In those days the Lord began to send
13Rezin the king of Syria and
14Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.