But Abijah became powerful. He took fourteen wives for himself and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa developed a disease in his feet. His disease was severe, yet even in his illness he did not seek the Lord, but [relied only on] the physicians.

So Jehoshaphat became greater and greater. He built fortresses and storage cities in Judah.

Now when Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, he died. He was a hundred and thirty years old at his death.

The Ammonites paid tribute (money) to Uzziah, and his fame spread abroad, even as far as the border of Egypt, for he became very strong.

But when Uzziah became strong, he became so proud [of himself and his accomplishments] that he acted corruptly, and he was unfaithful and sinned against the Lord his God, for he went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.

In the time of his distress, this same King Ahaz became yet more unfaithful to the Lord.

But Hezekiah did nothing [for the Lord] in return for the benefit bestowed on him, because his heart had become proud; therefore God’s wrath came on him and on Judah and Jerusalem.

Further, he did not humble himself before the Lord as his father Manasseh [finally] had done, but Amon multiplied his guilt and his sin.

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem.