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killeth Zacharias king of Israel and reigneth in his place. 14 After one month Manahem killeth Sellum & reigneth also wickedly. 19. Maketh league with the Syrians. 22. (illegible text) (illegible text) and his sonne Phaceia reigneth. 25. Phacee killeth him, and reigneth. 29. The Assyrians spoyle the countrie, and carie away manie captives. 30. Osee killeth Phacee and reigneth. 32. In the meanetime Ioathan}} reigning in Iuda is infested with enemies. 38. dieth, and his sonne Achaz reigneth.
In the seven and twentieth yeare of Ieroboam the king of Israel reigned [1] Azarias the sonne of Amasias the king of Iuda. 2 He was sixtene yeares old, when he began to reigne, and two and fitie yeares he reigned in Ierusalem: the name of his mother was Iechelia of Ierusalem. 3 And he did that which was liked before our Lord, according to al thinges that his father Amasias did. 4 But the excelses he destroyed not: as yet the people sacrificed, and burnt incense in the excelses. 5 And our Lord stroke the king, and he was [2] a leper vntil the day of his death, and he dwelt in a free house apart: but Ioathan the kinges sonne gouerned the palace, and judged the people of the land. 6 But the rest of the wordes of Azarias, and al that he did, are not these thinges written in the Booke of the wordes of the daies of the kinges of Iuda? 7 And Azarias slept with his fathers: and they buried him with his ancerors [3] in the citie of David, and Ioathan his sonne reigned for him. 8 In the eight and thirteth yeare of Azaria the king of Iuda, reigned Zacharias the sonne of Ieroboam ouer Israel in Samaria sixe monethes: 9 and he did that which is euil before our Lord, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat, who made Israel to sinne. 10 And Sellum the sonne of Iabes conspired against him: and smote him openly, killed him, and reigned for him. 11 But the rest of the wordes of Zacharias, are not these writen in the Booke of the wordes of the dayes of the kinges of Israel? 12 This is the word of our Lord, which he spake to Iehu, saying: Thy children shal be vnto the fourth generation vpon the throne of Israel. And so it came to passe. 13 Sellum the sone of Iabes reigned the nine and thirteth yeare of Azarias the king of Iuda: and reigned one moneth in Samaria. 14 And Manahem the sonne of Gadi when vp from Thersa: and he came into Samaria, and smote Sellum the sonne of Iabes in Samaria,
- ↑ Otherwise called Ozias v.30, 2 Paralip 16
- ↑ This punishment was inflicted vpon him, for his presumption to offer incese on the altar 2 Paralip 16
- ↑ He was buried honorably in the city of David, that is, nere to the walles but in the silde, because he was a leper even to his death. 2 Paralip 26
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