²³In the fifteenth year of Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam^f son of Jehoash king of Israel became king in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years. ²⁴He did evil in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn away from any of the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit.^g ²⁵He was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from Lebo Hamath^h to the Dead Sea,^eⁱ in accordance with the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, spoken through his servant Jonah^j son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.

²⁶The Lord had seen how bitterly everyone in Israel, whether slave or free,^k was suffering;^f^l there was no one to help them.^m ²⁷And since the Lord had not said he would blot outⁿ the name of Israel from under heaven, he saved^o them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash.

²⁸As for the other events of Jeroboam’s reign, all he did, and his military achievements, including how he recovered for Israel both Damascus^p and Hamath,^q which had belonged to Judah, are they not written in the book of the annals^r of the kings of Israel? ²⁹Jeroboam rested with his ancestors, the kings of Israel. And Zechariah his son succeeded him as king.

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Footnotes

eHebrew the Sea of the Arabah
fOr Israel was suffering. They were without a ruler or leader, and

Cross references

fSee 2 Ki 13:13; 1 Ch 5:17; Am 1:1; 7:10
gSee 1 Ki 15:30
hSee Nu 13:21
i Dt 3:17
j Jnh 1:1; Mt 12:39
k Dt 32:36
l 2 Ki 13:4
m Ps 18:41; 22:11; 72:12; 107:12; Isa 63:5; La 1:7
nSee Dt 29:20
oSee Jdg 6:14
pSee 2 Sa 8:5
qSee 2 Sa 8:9
r 1 Ki 15:31