2 Kings 13:1–9

Kings of Israel: Jehoahaz and Jehoash

¹In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu became king over Israel at Samaria, and he reigned seventeen years.

²He did evil in the sight of the Lord, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, ^awith which he made Israel sin; he did not turn from them.

^3aSo the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and He gave them continually into the hand of ^bHazael king of Aram, and into the hand of ^cBen-hadad the son of Hazael.

⁴Then ^aJehoahaz entreated the favor of the Lord, and the Lord listened to him; for ^bHe saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Aram oppressed them.

⁵The Lord gave Israel a ^1adeliverer, so that they ²escaped from under the hand of the Arameans; and the sons of Israel lived in their tents as formerly.

⁶Nevertheless they did not turn away from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, ^awith which he made Israel sin, but walked in ¹them; and ^bthe Asherah also remained standing in Samaria.

⁷For he left to Jehoahaz of the ¹army not more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and 10,000 footmen, for the king of Aram had destroyed them and ^amade them like the dust at threshing.

⁸Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

⁹And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria; and Joash his son became king in his place.