King Jehoahaz succeeds Jehu of Israel

King Jehoahaz succeeds Jehu of Israel

  32In those days YHVH began to cut off portions from Israel; and Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel: 33from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites and the Reubenites and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.

      34Now the rest of the acts of Jehu and all that he did and all his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 35And Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son became king in his place. 36Now the time which Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.

2 Kings 10:32-36

813 – 797 BC evil reign start to finish

 1In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu became king over Israel at Samaria, and he reigned seventeen years. 2He did evil in the sight of YHVH, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel sin; he did not turn from them. 3So the anger of YHVH was kindled against Israel, and He gave them continually into the hand of Hazael king of Aram and Ben-Hadad his son.

4Then Jehoahaz sought YHVH’s favor, and the Lord listened to him, for he saw how severely the king of Aram was oppressing Israel. 5YHVH provided a deliverer for Israel [contemporary Pharaoh Shoshenk I], and they escaped from the power of Aram. So the Israelites lived in their own homes as they had before. 6But they did not turn away from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, which he had caused Israel to commit; they continued in them. Also, the Asherah pole a remained standing in Samaria.

7Nothing had been left of the army of Jehoahaz except fifty horsemen, ten chariots and ten thousand foot soldiers, for the king of Aram had destroyed the rest and made them like the dust at threshing time.

2 Kings 13:1-7

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