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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>2 Kings 15 New American Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_kings/15.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/2_kings/15-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NABRE</a> > 2 Kings 15</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_kings/14.htm" title="2 Kings 14">◄</a> 2 Kings 15 <a href="../2_kings/16.htm" title="2 Kings 16">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch12015" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn12015" class="cn"></h1> <p class="pf"><span class="hemb">Reign of Azariah of Judah.</span> <span id="v12015001" class="ver">1</span>In the twenty-seventh year<a id="rfn12015001-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn12015001-1">*</a> of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Azariah, son of Amaziah, king of Judah, became king. <span id="v12015002" class="ver">2</span>He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecholiah, from Jerusalem.</p> <p><span id="v12015003" class="ver">3</span>He did what was right in the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s sight, just as his father Amaziah had done, <span id="v12015004" class="ver">4</span>though the high places did not disappear, and the people continued to sacrifice and to burn incense on the high places. <span id="v12015005" class="ver">5</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> afflicted the king, and he was a leper until the day he died. He lived in a house apart, while Jotham, the king’s son, was master of the palace and ruled the people of the land.<a id="rfn12015005-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn12015005-1">*</a></p> <p><span id="v12015006" class="ver">6</span>The rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah. <span id="v12015007" class="ver">7</span>Azariah rested with his ancestors, and was buried with them in the City of David, and his son Jotham succeeded him as king.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Reign of Zechariah of Israel.</span> <span id="v12015008" class="ver">8</span>In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah, king of Judah, Zechariah, son of Jeroboam, became king over Israel in Samaria for six months.</p> <p><span id="v12015009" class="ver">9</span>He did what was evil in the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s sight, as his ancestors had done, and did not desist from the sins that Jeroboam, son of Nebat, had caused Israel to commit. <span id="v12015010" class="ver">10</span>Shallum, son of Jabesh, plotted against him and struck him down at Ibleam. He killed him and reigned in his place.</p> <p><span id="v12015011" class="ver">11</span>As for the rest of the acts of Zechariah, these are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. <span id="v12015012" class="ver">12</span>This was the word the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> had spoken to Jehu: Sons of your line to the fourth generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel; and so it was.<a id="ren12015012-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12015012-a">a</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Reign of Shallum of Israel.</span> <span id="v12015013" class="ver">13</span>Shallum, son of Jabesh, became king in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah, king of Judah; he reigned one month in Samaria.</p> <p><span id="v12015014" class="ver">14</span>Menahem, son of Gadi, came up from Tirzah to Samaria, and struck down Shallum, son of Jabesh, in Samaria. He killed him and reigned in his place.</p> <p><span id="v12015015" class="ver">15</span>As for the rest of the acts of Shallum, with the conspiracy he carried out, these are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. <span id="v12015016" class="ver">16</span>At that time, Menahem attacked Tappuah, all its inhabitants, and its whole district as far as Tirzah, because they did not let him in. He attacked them; he even ripped open all their pregnant women.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Reign of Menahem of Israel.</span> <span id="v12015017" class="ver">17</span>In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah, king of Judah, Menahem, son of Gadi, became king over Israel for ten years in Samaria. <span id="v12015018" class="ver">18</span>He did what was evil in the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s sight as long as he lived, not desisting from the sins that Jeroboam, son of Nebat, had caused Israel to commit. <span id="v12015019" class="ver">19</span>Pul,<a id="rfn12015019-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn12015019-1">*</a> king of Assyria, came against the land. But Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver to have his help in holding onto his kingdom. <span id="v12015020" class="ver">20</span>Menahem paid out silver on behalf of Israel, that is, for all the people of substance, by giving the king of Assyria fifty shekels of silver for each one. So the king of Assyria went home and did not stay in the land.</p> <p><span id="v12015021" class="ver">21</span>The rest of the acts of Menahem, with all that he did, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. <span id="v12015022" class="ver">22</span>Menahem rested with his ancestors, and his son Pekahiah succeeded him as king.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Reign of Pekahiah of Israel.</span> <span id="v12015023" class="ver">23</span>In the fiftieth year of Azariah, king of Judah, Pekahiah, son of Menahem, became king over Israel in Samaria for two years.</p> <p><span id="v12015024" class="ver">24</span>He did what was evil in the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s sight, not desisting from the sins that Jeroboam, son of Nebat, had caused Israel to commit. <span id="v12015025" class="ver">25</span>His adjutant Pekah, son of Remaliah, conspired against him, and struck him down at Samaria within the palace stronghold; he had with him fifty men from Gilead. He killed him and reigned in his place. <span id="v12015026" class="ver">26</span>As for the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, with all that he did, these are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Reign of Pekah of Israel.</span> <span id="v12015027" class="ver">27</span><a id="rfn12015027-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn12015027-1">*</a> In the fifty-second year of Azariah, king of Judah, Pekah, son of Remaliah, became king over Israel in Samaria for twenty years.</p> <p><span id="v12015028" class="ver">28</span>He did what was evil in the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s sight, not desisting from the sins that Jeroboam, son of Nebat, had caused Israel to commit. <span id="v12015029" class="ver">29</span>In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came and took Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee—all the land of Naphtali—deporting the inhabitants to Assyria. <span id="v12015030" class="ver">30</span><a id="rfn12015030-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn12015030-1">*</a> Hoshea, son of Elah, carried out a conspiracy against Pekah, son of Remaliah; he struck and killed him, and succeeded him as king in the twentieth year of Jotham, son of Uzziah.</p> <p><span id="v12015031" class="ver">31</span>As for the rest of the acts of Pekah, with all that he did, these are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Reign of Jotham of Judah.</span> <span id="v12015032" class="ver">32</span>In the second year of Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, became king. <span id="v12015033" class="ver">33</span>He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerusha, daughter of Zadok.</p> <p><span id="v12015034" class="ver">34</span>He did what was right in the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s sight, just as his father Uzziah had done, <span id="v12015035" class="ver">35</span>though the high places did not disappear, and the people continued to sacrifice and to burn incense on the high places. It was he who built the Upper Gate<a id="rfn12015035-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn12015035-1">*</a> of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s house.</p> <p><span id="v12015036" class="ver">36</span>The rest of the acts of Jotham, with what he did, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah. <span id="v12015037" class="ver">37</span>It was at that time that the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> began to unleash Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, against Judah.<a id="ren12015037-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12015037-b">b</a> <span id="v12015038" class="ver">38</span>Jotham rested with his ancestors; he was buried with his ancestors in the City of David his father, and his son Ahaz succeeded him as king.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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