17 Yehudah’s King Amatsyah (Yoash’s son) lived another fifteen years after the death of Israel’s King Yehoash (Yehoahaz’s son). 18 Everything else that Amatsyah said is written in the book of the events of the kings of Yehudah.

19 Some people in Yerushalem had plotted to assassinate him, but he fled to Lakish. However, they followed him there and killed him in the city. 20 His body was carried back on horses, and he was buried in his ancestral tomb in Yerushalem in the city of David. 21 Then all the people of Yehudah took sixteen year old Azaryah and made him king to replace his late father Amatsyah. 22 Azaryah built up Eylat and he reestablished it as part of Yehudah before he died.