And the LORDsmote the king, so that he was a leperunto the day of his death, and dwelt in a severalhouse. And Jotham the king’s son was over the house, judging the people of the land.
And he did thatwhich was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who madeIsrael to sin.
This was the word of the LORDwhich he spakeuntoJehu, saying, Thy sonsshall sit on the throne of Israelunto the fourthgeneration. And so it came to pass.
For Menahem the son of Gadiwent up fromTirzah, and came to Samaria, and smoteShallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
ThenMenahemsmoteTiphsah, and all thatweretherein, and the coaststhereoffromTirzah: becausetheyopened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the womenthereinthatwerewithchild he ripped up.
And Pul the king of Assyriacameagainst the land: and Menahemgave Pul a thousandtalents of silver, that his handmight be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
And Menahemexacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fiftyshekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyriaturnedback, and stayed not there in the land.
But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspiredagainst him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king’shouse, withArgob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
In the days of Pekahking of IsraelcameTiglathpileserking of Assyria, and tookIjon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carriedthemcaptive to Assyria.
And Hoshea the son of Elahmade a conspiracyagainstPekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentiethyear of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
Five and twentyyears old was he when he began to reign, and he reignedsixteenyears in Jerusalem. And his mother’sname was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
Howbeit the highplaceswere not removed: the peoplesacrificed and burnedincensestill in the highplaces. He built the highergate of the house of the LORD.