King Zechariah succeeds Jeroboam II

King Zechariah succeeds Jeroboam II

25He [Jeroboam II] restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of YHVH, the God of Israel, which He spoke through His servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath-hepher. 26For YHVH saw the affliction of Israel, which was very bitter; for there was neither bond nor free, nor was there any helper for Israel. 27YHVH did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

28Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did and his might, how he fought and how he recovered for Israel, Damascus and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 29And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel, and Zechariah his son became king in his place.

2 Kings 14:25-29

  8In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in Samaria for six months. 9He did evil in the sight of YHVH, as his fathers had done; he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel sin.

2 Kings 15:8,9

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