2Kgs 15
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In the seven and twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Azarias son of
Amasias, king of Juda.
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He was sixteen years old, when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years
in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jechelia of Jerusalem.
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And he did that which was pleasing before the Lord, according to all that his father
Amasias had done.
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But the high places he did not destroy: for the people sacrificed and burnt incense
in the high places.
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And the Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and
he dwelt in a free house apart: but Joatham the king's soil governed the palace, and
judged the people of the land.
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And the rest of the acts of Azarias, and all that he did, are they not written in
the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?
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And Azarias slept with his fathers: and they buried him with his ancestors in the
city of David, and Joatham his son reigned in his stead.
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In the eight and thirtieth year of Azarias king of Juda, reigned Zacharias son of
Jeroboam over Israel in Samaria six months:
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And he did that which is evil before the Lord, as his fathers had done: he departed
not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat who made Israel to sin.
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And Sellum the son of Jabes conspired against him: and struck him publicly and killed
him, and reigned in his place.
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Now the rest of the acts of Zacharias, are they not written in the book of the words
of the days of the kings of Israel?
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This was the word of the Lord, which he spoke to Jehu, saying: Thy children to the
fourth generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel. And so it came to pass.
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Sellum the son of Jabes began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Azarias king
of Juda: and reigned one month in Samaria.
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And Manahem the son of Gadi went up from Thersa: and he came into Samaria, and struck
Sellum the son of Jabes in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
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And the rest of the acts of Sellum, and his conspiracy, which he made, are they not
written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
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Then Manahem destroyed Thapsa and all that were in it and the borders thereof from
Thersa, because they would not open to him: and he slew all the women thereof that
were with child, and ripped them up.
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In the nine and thirtieth year of Azarias king of Juda, reigned Manahem son of Gadi
over Israel ten years in Samaria.
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And he did that which was evil before the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam
the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin all his days.
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And Phul king of the Assyrians came into the land, and Manahem gave Phul a thousand
talents of silver, to aid him and to establish him in the kingdom.
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And Manahem laid a tax upon Israel, on all that were mighty and rich, to give the
king of the Assyrians, each man fifty sides of silver: so the king of the Assyrians
turned back, and did not stay in the land.
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And the rest of the acts of Manahem, and all that he did, are they not written in
the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
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And Manahem slept with his fathers: and Phaceia his son reigned in his stead.
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In the fiftieth year of Azarias king of Juda reigned Phaceia the son of Manahem over
Israel in Samaria two years.
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And he did that which was evil before the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam
the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.
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And Phacee the son of Romelia, his captain conspired against him, and smote him in
Samaria, in the tower of the king's house, near Argob, and near Arie, and with him
fifty men of the sons of the Galaadites, and he slew him and reigned in his stead.
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And the rest of the acts of Phaceia, and all that he did, are they not written in
the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
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In the two and fiftieth year of Azarias king of Juda reigned Phacee the son of Romelia
over Israel in Samaria twenty years.
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And he did that which was evil before the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam
the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.
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In the days of Phacee king of Israel came Theglathphalasar king of Assyria, and took
Aion, and Abel Domum Maacha and Janoe, and Cedes, and Asor, and Galaad, and Galilee,
and all the land of Nephtali: and carried them captives into Assyria.
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Now Osee son of Ela conspired, and formed a plot against Phacee, the son of Romelia,
and struck him, and slew him: and reigned in his stead in the twentieth year of Joatham
the son of Ozias.
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But the rest of the acts of Phaces, and all that he did, are they not written in the
book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
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In the second year of Phacee the son of Romelia king of Israel reigned Joatham son
of Ozias king of Juda.
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He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years
in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jerusa, the daughter of Sadoc.
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And he did that which was right before the Lord: according to all that his father
Ozias had done, so did he.
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But the high places he took not away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense
in the high places: he built the highest gate of the house of the Lord.
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But the rest of the acts of Joatham, end all that he did, are they not written in
the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?
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In those days the Lord began to send into Juda Basin king of Syria, and Phacee the
son of Romelia.
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And Joatham slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David
his father, and Achaz his son reigned in his stead.