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In the thirty-eighth year of `Azaryah king of Yehudah did Zekharyah the son of Yarov`am reign over Yisra'el in Shomron six months.

He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he didn't depart from the sins of Yarov`am the son of Nevat, with which he made Yisra'el to sin.

He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he didn't depart all his days from the sins of Yarov`am the son of Nevat, with which he made Yisra'el to sin.

He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he didn't depart from the sins of Yarov`am the son of Nevat, with which he made Yisra'el to sin.

He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he didn't depart from the sins of Yarov`am the son of Nevat, with which he made Yisra'el to sin.

So Achaz sent messengers to Tiglat-Pil'eser king of Ashshur, saying, I am your servant and your son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Aram, and out of the hand of the king of Yisra'el, who rise up against me.

For he tore Yisra'el from the house of David; and they made Yarov`am the son of Nevat king: and Yarov`am drove Yisra'el from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.

The children of Yisra'el walked in all the sins of Yarov`am which he did; they didn't depart from them;

Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? the LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

By your messengers you have defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Levanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it; and I will enter into his farthest lodging-place, the forest of his fruitful field.

Moreover the altar that was at Beit-El, and the high place which Yarov`am the son of Nevat, who made Yisra'el to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

Shema became the father of Racham, the father of Yorke`am; and Rekem became the father of Shammai.

the fifth, Shefatyah of Avital; the sixth, Yitre`am by `Eglah his wife:

Shlomo's son was Rechav`am, Aviyah his son, Asa his son, Yehoshafat his son,

The sons of Kalev the son of Yefunneh: Iru, Elah, and Na`am; and the sons of Elah; and Kenaz.

All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Yotam king of Yehudah, and in the days of Yarov`am king of Yisra'el.

and Yokme`am with its suburbs, and Beit-Horon with its suburbs,

and out of the half-tribe of Menashsheh, `Aner with its suburbs, and Bil`am with its suburbs, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kehat.

The sons of Shemida were Achyan, and Shekhem, and Likchi, and Ani`am.

The sons of Elpa`al: `Ever, and Mish`am, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with the towns of it;