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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 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</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="../">NRSVCE</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 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Azariah Reigns over Judah</span></h3><p class="chapter-2"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>In the twenty-seventh year of King Jeroboam of Israel King Azariah son of Amaziah of Judah began to reign. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>He did what was right in the sight of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, just as his father Amaziah had done. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Nevertheless the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> struck the king, so that he was leprous<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-9931a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. Jotham the king’s son was in charge of the palace, governing the people of the land. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Azariah slept with his ancestors; they buried him with his ancestors in the city of David; his son Jotham succeeded him.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Zechariah Reigns over Israel</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>In the thirty-eighth year of King Azariah of Judah, Zechariah son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria six months. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>He did what was evil in the sight of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, as his ancestors had done. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he caused Israel to sin. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him down in public and killed him, and reigned in place of him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Now the rest of the deeds of Zechariah are written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>This was the promise of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> that he gave to Jehu, “Your sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.” And so it happened.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Shallum Reigns over Israel</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Shallum son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of King Uzziah of Judah; he reigned one month in Samaria. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Then Menahem son of Gadi came up from Tirzah and came to Samaria; he struck down Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria and killed him; he reigned in place of him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Now the rest of the deeds of Shallum, including the conspiracy that he made, are written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>At that time Menahem sacked Tiphsah, all who were in it and its territory from Tirzah on; because they did not open it to him, he sacked it. He ripped open all the pregnant women in it.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Menahem Reigns over Israel</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>In the thirty-ninth year of King Azariah of Judah, Menahem son of Gadi began to reign over Israel; he reigned ten years in Samaria. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>He did what was evil in the sight of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; he did not depart all his days from any of the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he caused Israel to sin. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>King Pul of Assyria came against the land; Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, so that he might help him confirm his hold on the royal power. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Menahem exacted the money from Israel, that is, from all the wealthy, fifty shekels of silver from each one, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and did not stay there in the land. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Now the rest of the deeds of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Menahem slept with his ancestors, and his son Pekahiah succeeded him.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Pekahiah Reigns over Israel</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>In the fiftieth year of King Azariah of Judah, Pekahiah son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria; he reigned two years. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>He did what was evil in the sight of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he caused Israel to sin. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>Pekah son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him with fifty of the Gileadites, and attacked him in Samaria, in the citadel of the palace along with Argob and Arieh; he killed him, and reigned in place of him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>Now the rest of the deeds of Pekahiah, and all that he did, are written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Pekah Reigns over Israel</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>In the fifty-second year of King Azariah of Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria; he reigned twenty years. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>He did what was evil in the sight of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he caused Israel to sin.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>In the days of King Pekah of Israel, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried the people captive to Assyria. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>Then Hoshea son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah son of Remaliah, attacked him, and killed him; he reigned in place of him, in the twentieth year of Jotham son of Uzziah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, are written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Jotham Reigns over Judah</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>In the second year of King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel, King Jotham son of Uzziah of Judah began to reign. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerusha daughter of Zadok. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>He did what was right in the sight of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, just as his father Uzziah had done. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>Nevertheless the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">36</span>Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">37</span>In those days the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> began to send King Rezin of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">38</span>Jotham slept with his ancestors, and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David, his ancestor; his son Ahaz succeeded him.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Kings 15:5">2 Kings 15:5</a> <span class='footnote-text'>A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain</span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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