²⁵Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel. ²⁶As for the other events of Amaziah’s reign, from beginning to end, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel? ²⁷From the time that Amaziah turned away from following the Lord, they conspired against him in Jerusalem and he fled to Lachish^e, but they sent men after him to Lachish and killed him there. ²⁸He was brought back by horse and was buried with his ancestors in the City of Judah.^f

Uzziah King of Judah

26:1–4pp—2Ki 14:21–22; 15:1–3 26:21–23pp—2Ki 15:5–7

26Then all the people of Judah^f took Uzziah,^a who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah. ²He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after Amaziah rested with his ancestors.

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Footnotes

fMost Hebrew manuscripts; some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac (see also 2 Kings 14:20) David
aAlso called Azariah

Cross references

eSee Jos 10:3
fSee 2 Ch 22:1