23 In the fifteenth year of Yoash’s son King Amatsyah’s reign over Yehudah, Yehoash’s son Yarave’am became king of Yisrael and reigned from Shomron (Samaria) for forty-one years. 24 He did what Yahweh had said was evil—he imitated the customs of Nebat’s son Yarave’am who’d caused Yisrael to sin. 25 Yarave’am restored Yisrael’s border from Lebo-Hamat through to the Sea of the Desert, as Yisrael’s god Yahweh had foretold via his servant Yonah (Jonah)—the son of the prophet Amittai from Gat-Hefer. 26 That was because Yahweh had seen how Yisrael had suffered badly and had been unable to control their own destinies, and that no other country would help them. 27 But Yahweh had said that he wouldn’t allow Yisrael to be destroyed, so he’d used Yehoash’s son Yarave’am to save them.

28 Everything else that Yarave’am said and did, including how he fought and restored Damascus and Hamat to Yisrael, is written in the book of the events of the kings of Yisrael. 29 Then Yarave’am died and was buried with the former kings of Yisrael, and his son Zekaryah replaced him as king.