798 – 782 BC evil reign start to finish
and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael. 4Then Jehoahaz entreated the favour of YHVH, and YHVH listened to him; for He saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Aram oppressed them. 5YHVH gave Israel a deliverer, so that they escaped from under the hand of the Arameans; and the sons of Israel lived in their tents as formerly.6Nevertheless they did not turn away from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained standing in Samaria. 7For he left to Jehoahaz of the army not more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and 10,000 footmen, for the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing. 8Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 9And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria; and Joash his son became king in his place.
10In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years. 11He did evil in the sight of YHVH; he did not turn away from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel sin, but he walked in them.