2 Kings 15

Judah’s King Azariah

1 In the twenty-seventh year of Israel’s King Jeroboam, Azariah  * 15:1 = Uzziah in 2Ch 26:3,* 15:1 2Kg 14:21 son of Amaziah became king of Judah.  * 15:1–3 2Ch 26:3–52 He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem. 3 Azariah did what was right in the Lord’s sight  * 15:3 1Kg 14:8 just as his father Amaziah had done. 4 Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.  * 15:4 2Kg 14:3–4

5 The Lord afflicted the king, and he had a serious skin disease until the day of his death.  * 15:5 2Ch 26:16–21 He lived in quarantine,  * 15:5 Lit in a house of exemption from duty,* 15:5 Lv 13:46 while Jotham,  * 15:5 2Kg 15:32; 2Ch 27:1; Mc 1:1 the king’s son, was over the household governing the people of the land.  * 15:5 2Ch 26:16–21

6 The rest of the events of Azariah’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings.  * 15:6 2Kg 14:187 Azariah rested with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Jotham became king in his place.  * 15:6–7 2Ch 26:22–23

Israel’s King Zechariah

8 In the thirty-eighth year of Judah’s King Azariah, Zechariah  * 15:8 2Kg 14:29 son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria for six months. 9 He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight as his predecessors had done.  * 15:9 2Kg 14:24 He did not turn away from the sins Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.  * 15:9 1Kg 12:28–33; 13:33–34

10 Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against Zechariah. He struck him down publicly,  * 15:10 Some LXX mss read down at Ibleam; Hb uncertain killed him, and became king in his place.  * 15:10 2Kg 12:2011 As for the rest of the events of Zechariah’s reign, they are written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings.  * 15:11 2Kg 13:812 The word of the Lord that he spoke to Jehu was, "Four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel,"  * 15:12 2Kg 10:30 and it was so.

Israel’s King Shallum

13 In the thirty-ninth year of Judah’s King Uzziah,  * 15:13 = Azariah, also in vv. 30,32,34 Shallum son of Jabesh became king; he reigned in Samaria  * 15:13 1Kg 16:24 a full month. 14 Then Menahem son of Gadi came up from Tirzah  * 15:14 1Kg 14:17 to Samaria and struck down Shallum son of Jabesh there. He killed him and became king in his place. 15 As for the rest of the events of Shallum’s reign, along with the conspiracy that he formed, they are written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings.

Israel’s King Menahem

16 At that time, starting from Tirzah, Menahem attacked Tiphsah,  * 15:16 1Kg 4:24 all who were in it, and its territory because they wouldn’t surrender.  * 15:16 Dt 20:11 He ripped open all the pregnant women.  * 15:16 2Kg 8:12; Hs 13:16; Am 1:13

17 In the thirty-ninth year of Judah’s King Azariah, Menahem son of Gadi became king over Israel, and he reigned ten years in Samaria. 18 He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight. Throughout his reign, he did not turn away from the sins Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.  * 15:18 1Kg 12:28–33; 15:26

19 King Pul  * 15:19 = Tiglath-pileser,* 15:19 1Ch 5:25–26 of Assyria invaded the land, so Menahem gave Pul seventy-five thousand pounds  * 15:19 Lit 1,000 talents of silver so that Pul would support him to strengthen his grasp on the kingdom.  * 15:19 2Kg 14:520 Then Menahem exacted twenty ounces  * 15:20 Lit 50 shekels of silver from each of the prominent men of Israel to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria withdrew and did not stay there in the land.  * 15:20 2Kg 12:18

21 The rest of the events of Menahem’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings. 22 Menahem rested with his ancestors, and his son Pekahiah became king in his place.  * 15:22 2Kg 14:29

Israel’s King Pekahiah

23 In the fiftieth year of Judah’s King Azariah, Pekahiah son of Menahem became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned two years. 24 He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight and did not turn away from the sins Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.  * 15:24 1Kg 12:28–33

25 Then his officer, Pekah  * 15:25 2Ch 28:6 son of Remaliah, conspired against him  * 15:25 2Kg 12:20 and struck him down in Samaria at the citadel of the king’s palace  * 15:25 1Kg 16:8 — with Argob and Arieh.  * 15:25 Hb obscure There were fifty Gileadite men with Pekah. He killed Pekahiah and became king in his place.

26 As for the rest of the events of Pekahiah’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, they are written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings.

Israel’s King Pekah

27 In the fifty-second year of Judah’s King Azariah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twenty years. 28 He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight. He did not turn away from the sins Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.

29 In the days of King Pekah of Israel, King Tiglath-pileser  * 15:29 1Ch 5:6,26 of Assyria came and captured Ijon,  * 15:29 1Kg 15:29 Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee — all the land of Naphtali  * 15:29 Jos 19:32–39  — and deported the people to Assyria.  * 15:29 2Kg 17:6

30 Then Hoshea  * 15:30 2Kg 17:1 son of Elah organized a conspiracy against Pekah son of Remaliah. He attacked him, killed him,  * 15:30 2Kg 12:20 and became king in his place in the twentieth year of Jotham son of Uzziah.

31 As for the rest of the events of Pekah’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, they are written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings.

Judah’s King Jotham

32 In the second year of Israel’s King Pekah son of Remaliah, Jotham  * 15:32 2Kg 15:5,7 son of Uzziah became king of Judah. 33 He was twenty-five years old when he became king,  * 15:33–35 2Ch 27:1–3 and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerusha daughter of Zadok. 34 He did what was right in the Lord’s sight just as his father Uzziah had done.  * 15:34–35 2Kg 15:3–435 Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

Jotham built the Upper Gate of the Lord’s temple.  * 15:35 2Ch 27:336 The rest  * 15:36–38 2Ch 27:7–9 of the events of Jotham’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings.  * 15:36 2Kg 14:1837 In those days the Lord began sending Aram’s King Rezin and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah.  * 15:37 2Kg 16:5; Is 7:138 Jotham rested with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David.  * 15:38 2Kg 15:7 His son Ahaz became king in his place.