²⁵King Amaziah of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of King Jehoash of Israel. ²⁶The rest of the events in Amaziah’s reign, from beginning to end, are recorded in The Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

²⁷After Amaziah turned away from the Lord, there was a conspiracy against his life in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But his enemies sent assassins after him, and they killed him there. ²⁸They brought his body back on a horse, and he was buried with his ancestors in the City of David.

Chapter 26 Uzziah Rules in Judah

All the people of Judah had crowned Amaziah’s sixteen-year-old son, Uzziah, as king in place of his father. ²After his father’s death, Uzziah rebuilt the town of Elath and restored it to Judah.

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