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Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

But Jehoiada grew old and full of days, and died. He was 130 years old at his death.

And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.

Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah's father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, "May the Lord see and avenge!"

When they had departed from him, leaving him severely wounded, his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed. So he died, and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.

Accounts of his sons and of the many oracles against him and of the rebuilding of the house of God are written in the Story of the Book of the Kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

And as soon as the royal power was firmly his, he killed his servants who had struck down the king his father.

But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, "Fathers shall not die because of their children, nor children die because of their fathers, but each one shall die for his own sin."

But Amaziah took courage and led out his people and went to the Valley of Salt and struck down 10,000 men of Seir.

After Amaziah came from striking down the Edomites, he brought the gods of the men of Seir and set them up as his gods and worshiped them, making offerings to them.

And Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled to his home.

And they brought him upon horses, and he was buried with his fathers in the city of David.

And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

He built Eloth and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.

Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord , according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread even to the border of Egypt, for he became very strong.

In Jerusalem he made machines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong.

But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.