2Kings:13:1-9

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* In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah , king of Judah , Jehoahaz the son of Jehu became king over Israel in Samaria , and reigned seventeen years . * And he did evil in the sight of the LORD , and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat , who had made Israel sin . He did not depart from them . * Then the anger of the LORD was aroused against Israel , and He delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria , and into the hand of Ben-Hadad the son of Hazael , all their days . * So Jehoahaz pleaded with the LORD , and the LORD listened to him ; for He saw the oppression of Israel , because the king of Syria oppressed them . * Then the LORD gave Israel a deliverer , so that they escaped from under the hand of the Syrians ; and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents as before . * Nevertheless they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam , who had made Israel sin , but walked in them ; and the wooden image also remained in Samaria . * For He left of the army of Jehoahaz only fifty horsemen , ten chariots , and ten thousand foot soldiers ; for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing . * Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz , all that he did , and his might , are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel ? * So Jehoahaz rested with his fathers , and they buried him in Samaria . Then Joash his son reigned in his place .

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