13In the 23rd year of the reign of Joash son of Ahaziah as king of Judah, Jehoahaz son of Jehu became king of Israel, and he ruled in Samaria for seventeen years. ²Like King Jeroboam before him he sinned against the Lord and led Israel into sin; he never gave up his evil ways. ³So the Lord was angry with Israel, and he allowed King Hazael of Syria and his son Benhadad to defeat Israel time after time. ⁴Then Jehoahaz prayed to the Lord, and the Lord, seeing how harshly the king of Syria was oppressing the Israelites, answered his prayer. ⁵The Lord sent Israel a leader, who freed them from the Syrians, and so the Israelites lived in peace, as before. ⁶But they still did not give up the sins into which King Jeroboam had led Israel, but kept on^z committing them; and the image of the goddess Asherah remained in Samaria.

⁷Jehoahaz had no armed forces left except 50 horsemen, ten chariots, and 10,000 men on foot, because the king of Syria had destroyed the rest, trampling them down like dust.

⁸Everything else that Jehoahaz did and all his brave deeds are recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel. ⁹He died and was buried in Samaria, and his son Jehoash succeeded him as king.

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zSome ancient translations kept on; Hebrew he kept on.