15:13 Shallum son of Jabesh became king in the thirty-ninth year of King Uzziah’s 1 reign over Judah. He reigned for one month 2 in Samaria.
15:31 The rest of the events of Pekah’s reign, including all his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 4
15:32 In the second year of the reign of Israel’s King Pekah son of Remaliah, Uzziah’s son Jotham became king over Judah. 15:33 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. 5 His mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok. 15:34 He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Uzziah had done. 6 15:35 But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places. He built the Upper Gate to the Lord’s temple.
15:36 The rest of the events of Jotham’s reign, including his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. 7 15:37 In those days the Lord prompted King Rezin of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah to attack Judah. 8 15:38 Jotham passed away 9 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Ahaz replaced him as king.
1 sn Azariah was also known by the name Uzziah.
2 tn Heb “a month of days.”
3 tn Heb “and struck him down and killed him.”
4 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Pekah, and all which he did, look, they are written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel.”
5 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
6 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the
7 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jotham, and that which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”
8 tn Heb “the
9 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”