^25:25King Amaziah son of Joash of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of King Joash son of Jehoahaz of Israel. ^25:26The rest of the events of Amaziah’s reign, from start to finish, are recorded in the Scroll of the Kings of Judah and Israel.⁵²^25:27From the time Amaziah turned from following the Lord, conspirators plotted against him in Jerusalem,⁵³ so he fled to Lachish. But they sent assassins after him⁵⁴ and they killed him there. ^25:28His body was carried back by horses,⁵⁵ and he was buried in Jerusalem with his ancestors⁵⁶ in the City of David.⁵⁷

Uzziah’s Reign

^26:1All the people of Judah took Uzziah,¹ who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place. ^26:2Uzziah² built up Elat and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah³ had passed away.⁴

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Footnotes

52 Heb “As for the rest of the events of Amaziah, the former and the latter, are they not—behold, they are written on the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel.”
53 Heb “and they conspired against him [with] a conspiracy in Jerusalem.”
54 Heb “and they sent after him to Lachish.”
55 Heb “and they carried him on horses.”
56 Heb “fathers.”
57 The Hebrew text has “Judah,” but some medieval read “David,” as does the parallel passage in 2 Kgs 14:20. The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
1 The parallel account in 2 Kgs 15:1–8 has the variant spelling “Azariah.”
2 Heb “he”; the referent (Uzziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 Heb “after the king”; the referent (Amaziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 “slept with his fathers.”