²⁵And Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived after the death of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, the king of Israel, fifteen years. ²⁶Now the remainder of the words of Amaziah, from the first to the last, behold, are they not written in the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel? ²⁷And from the time that Amaziah turned away from Yahweh, they had plotted a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem. And he fled to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there. ²⁸And they carried him on the horses and buried him with his ancestors^q in the city of Judah.

The Reign of Uzziah

26Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah (now he was sixteen years old)^a and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah. ²He built Elath and returned it to Judah after the king slept with his ancestors.^b

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Footnotes

qOr “fathers”
aLiterally “was a son of six ten years”
bOr “fathers”