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OET-RV 2 KI Chapter 15

OET2 KI 15 ©

This is still a very early look into the unfinished text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.

15:1Azaryah/Uzziyah reigns over Yehudah

Southern kingdom

(2 Chr. 26:1-23)

15In the twenty-seventh year of King Yarave’am’s reign over Yisrael, Amatsyah’s son Azaryah[fn] became king of Yehudah. 2He was sixteen when he became king, and he reigned from Yerushalem for fifty-two years. (His mother’s name was Jeholyah from Yerushalem.) 3He did what Yahweh had said was correct behaviour like his father Amatsyah had done, 4although the hilltop shrines weren’t removed—the people continued to sacrifice at them and burn incense. 5Yahweh caused Azaryah to become a leper and he had to live separately from others for the rest of his life, so his son Yotam ran the palace and dealt with the people’s problems.

6Everything else that Azaryah said and did is written in the book of the events of the kings of Yehudah. 7Azaryah died and was buried in the ancestral tomb in the city of David, and his son Yotam replaced him as king.[ref]

15:8Zekaryah reigns over Yisrael

Northern kingdom

8In the thirty-eighth year of King Azaryah’s reign over Yehudah, Yarave’am’s son Zekaryah became king over Yisrael and ruled for six months from Shomron (Samaria). 9He did what Yahweh had said was evil, just as his ancestors had done—he didn’t avoid the kinds of behaviour that had been done by Nebat’s son Yarave’am who had caused Yisrael to sin. 10Then Yavesh’s son Shallum plotted to assassinate him, and he attacked him in front of the people and killed him, and he replaced him as king.

11Everything else that Zekaryah said and did is written in the book of the events of the kings of Yisrael.

12Previously Yahweh had told King Yehu that his descendants would sit on the throne for four generations, and that had come true.[ref]

15:13Shallum reigns over Yisrael

Northern kingdom

13Yavesh’s son Shallum became king in the thirty-ninth year of King Azaryah’s reign over Yehudah, but he only reigned from Shomron for one month. 14Then Gadi’s son Menahem came to Shomron from Tirtsah, and he attacked Yabesh’s son Shallum there in Shomron and killed him, replacing him as king. 15Everything else that Shallum said, including his assassination plot, is written in the book of the events of the kings of Yisrael. 16At that time, Menahem attacked Tifsah and everyone in the city, and its borders from Tirtsah, because they wouldn’t open their gates. Then he ripped open the bellies of all the pregnant women there.

15:17Menahem’s reign over Yisrael

Northern kingdom

17In the thirty-ninth year of King Azaryah’s reign over Yehudah, Gadi’s son Menahem became king over Yisrael and he reigned from Shomron (Samaria) for ten years. 18He did what Yahweh had said was evil—he didn’t avoid the kinds of behaviour that had been done by Nebat’s son Yarave’am who had caused Yisrael to sin.

During his reign, 19King Pul (Tiglat-Pileser) of Assyria attacked Israel, and Menahem gave Pul over thirty tonnes of silver, so he would support Menahem’s reign. 20(Menahem had taxed all the wealthy families across Yisraelfifty silver coins per adult male.) As a result, the Assyrian king cancelled his plans to attack and returned home.

21Everything else that Menahem said and did is written in the book of the events of the kings of Yisrael. 22Then Menahem died and was buried, and his son Pekahyah replaced him as king.

15:23Pekahyah reigns over Yisrael

Northern kingdom

23In the fiftieth year of King Azaryah’s reign over Yehudah, Menahem’s son Pekahyah became king over Yisrael and reigned from Shomron (Samaria) for two years. 24He did what Yahweh had said was evil—he didn’t avoid the kinds of behaviour that had been done by Nebat’s son Yarave’am who had caused Yisrael to sin. 25But Pekah the son of Remalyah, Pekahyah’s third officer, plotted to assassinate him, and he attacked him in the palace in Shomron with the assistance of Argov and Aryeh and fifty Gileadites. So Pekah killed King Pekahyah and replaced him as king. 26Everything else that Pekahyah said and did is written in the book of the events of the kings of Yisraellook at it.

15:27Pekah’s reign over Yisrael

Northern kingdom

27In the fifty-second year of King Azaryah’s reign over Yehudah, Remalyah’s son Pekah became king over Yisrael and reigned from Shomron (Samaria) for twenty years. 28He did what Yahweh had said was evil—he didn’t avoid the kinds of behaviour that had been done by Nebat’s son Yarave’am who had caused Yisrael to sin.

29During the reign of King Pekah over Yisrael, Assyria’s King Tiglat-Pileser came, and he captured the cities of Iyyon, Abel-Beyt-Maakah, Yanoah, Kedesh, and Hatsor, and the regions of Gilead, Galilee, and Naftali, and he exiled their people to Assyria.

30Then Elah’s son Hoshea plotted to assassinate Remalyah’s son Pekah, and he attacked him, killing him and replacing him as king in the twentieth year of King Yotam’s reign over Yehudah. 31Everything else that Pekah said and did is written in the book of the events of the kings of Yisrael.

15:32Yotam’s reign over Yehudah

Southern kingdom

(2 Chr. 27:1-9)

32In the second year of Remalyah’s son Pekah’s reign over Yisrael, Azaryah’s son Yotam began to reign over Yehudah. 33He was twenty-five when he became king, and he reigned from Yerushalem for sixteen years. (His mother’s name was Yerusha, the daughter of Tsadok.) 34He did what Yahweh had said was correct behaviour like his father Azaryah/Uzziyah had done, 35although the hilltop shrines weren’t removed—the people continued to sacrifice at them and burn incense. Yotam built the upper gate to Yahweh’s temple.

36Everything else that Yotam said and did is written in the book of the events of the kings of Yehudah. 37In those days, Yahweh began to send Aram’s King Retsin and Remalyah’s son Pekah against Yehudah. 38Then Yotam died and was buried in their ancestral tomb in the city of his ancestor David, and his son Ahaz replaced him as king.


15:1 Azaryah was also known as Uzziyah, especially from v13 onwards.


15:7: Isa 6:1.

15:12: 2Ki 10:30.

OET2 KI 15 ©

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