2 Kings 15:19-38

191Pul, the king of Assyria, came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a 2thousand talents of silver so that his hand might be with him to 3strengthen the 4kingdom 5under his rule. 20Then Menahem collected the money from Israel, from all the 6mighty men of wealth, from each man fifty shekels of silver to pay the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria returned and did not stay there in the land. 21Now as for the rest of the acts of Menahem and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 22And Menahem 7lay down with his fathers, and his son Pekahiah became king in his place.

23In 8the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned for two years. 24He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not desist from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, into which he misled Israel. 25Then Pekah the son of Remaliah, his officer, conspired against him and struck him in Samaria, in 9the castle of the king’s house with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites, and he killed him and became king in his place. 26Now as for the rest of the acts of Pekahiah and everything that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

27In 10the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, 11Pekah the son of Remaliah became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned for twenty years. 28He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not desist from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, into which he misled Israel.

29In the days of Pekah king of Israel, 1213Tiglath-pileser the king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and 14he led 15their populations into exile to Assyria. 30And Hoshea the son of Elah formed a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and struck him and put him to death, and he became king in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. 31Now as for the rest of the acts of Pekah and all that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

32In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, Jotham the son of 16Uzziah king of Judah became king. 3317He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok. 3418He did what was right in the sight of the Lord; he acted in accordance with everything that his father Uzziah had done. 35Only 19the high places were not eliminated; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. 20He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord. 36Now as for the rest of the acts of Jotham which he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 37In those days 21the Lord began to send Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah. 38And Jotham 22lay down with his fathers, and he was buried with his fathers in the city of his father David; and his son Ahaz became king in his place.