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

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

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23 In the fifteenth year of Yoash’s son King Amatsyah’s reign over Yehudah, Yehoash’s son Yarave’am became king of Israel and reigned from Shomron (Samaria) for forty-one years. 24 He did what was Yahweh had said was evil—he imitated the customs of Nebat’s son Yarave’am who had caused Israel to sin. 25 Yarave’am restored Israel’s border from Lebo-Hamat through to the Sea of the Desert, as Israel’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 Israel 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 Israel 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 Israel, is written in the book of the events of the kings of Israel. 29 Then Yarave’am died and was buried with the former kings of Israel, and his son Zekaryah replaced him as king.

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