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He took all the gold, silver, and all the utensils he found in the LORD's temple and in the royal palace treasury. He also took hostages. Then he returned to Samaria.
15
Isn't everything else about Jehoash--what he did, his heroic acts when he fought against King Amaziah of Judah--written in the official records of the kings of Israel?
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Jehoash lay down in death with his ancestors and was buried with the kings of Israel in Samaria. His son Jeroboam succeeded him as king.
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Joash's son King Amaziah of Judah lived 15 years after the death of Jehoahaz's son King Jehoash of Israel.
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Isn't everything else about Amaziah written in the official records of the kings of Judah?
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Conspirators in Jerusalem plotted against him, so he fled to Lachish. But they sent men to Lachish after him and killed him there.
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They brought him back by horse, and he was buried in Jerusalem, in the City of David, with his ancestors.
21
All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was 16 years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
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Azariah rebuilt Elath and returned it to Judah after King Amaziah lay down in death with his ancestors.
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Joash's son Amaziah was in his fifteenth year as king of Judah when Jehoash's son King Jeroboam of Israel began to rule in Samaria. Jeroboam ruled for 41 years.
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He did what the LORD considered evil. He didn't turn away from any of the sins that Jeroboam (Nebat's son) led Israel to commit.