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JOASH was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mothers name was Zibiah of the city of Beersheba.

And it came to pass after this that Jehoiadah determined in his heart with Joash secretly to restore the house of the LORD and to repair everything that was needed in it.

Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiadah his father had done to him, but he slew his sons after him. And when his sons were about to be slain, they said, May the LORD see and avenge it.

And when they were departed from him (for they left him in a state of severe illness), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiadah the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David his father, but they did not bury him in the sepulchres of the kings.

And his sons also and many other people conspired against him. And the rest of the sins which he committed in the house of the LORD, behold, they are written in the poems of the Book of the Kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

AMAZIAH was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And his mothers name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

Now it came to pass when the kingdom was strengthened in his hand, he slew his servants who had killed the king his father.

But he did not slay the children of the murderers, because so it is written in the book of the law of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.

Then Amaziah separated the men that had come to him from Ephraim, to go home again; wherefore his anger was greatly kindled against Israel. And he sent them back home in his great anger.

And Amaziah strengthened himself and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt and slew ten thousand of the men of mount Gebal.

And Judah was defeated before Israel; and they fled every man to his tent.

Now from the time that Amaziah turned away from following the LORD, his servants made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish; but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.

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

THEN all the people of Judah took Uzziah his son, 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 mothers name was Jeconiah of Jerusalem.

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father David did.

And he prayed before the LORD in the days of Zechariah, who taught him in the worship of the LORD, and the LORD prospered all his ways.

And his fame spread as far as the land of Egypt; for he continued to fight.

And his fame spread throughout all the lands, until he became very rich.