2 Kings 15:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

In the twenty-seventh year of the rule of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Azariah, son of Amaziah, became king of Judah.

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  • 2 Kgs 14:21 : 21 Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
  • 2 Kgs 15:13 : 13 Shallum, the son of Jabesh, became king in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah, king of Judah; and he was ruling in Samaria for the space of one month.
  • 2 Chr 26:1 : 1 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
  • 2 Chr 26:3-4 : 3 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for fifty-two years; his mother's name was Jechiliah of Jerusalem. 4 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.
  • 2 Kgs 14:16-17 : 16 And Jehoash went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son became king in his place. 17 Amaziah, the son of Joash, king of Judah, went on living for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.
  • 2 Kgs 15:30-38 : 30 And Hoshea, the son of Elah, made a secret design against Pekah, the son of Remaliah, and, attacking him, put him to death and became king in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham, the son of Uzziah. 31 Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all he did, are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel. 32 In the second year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham, the son of Uzziah, became king of Judah. 33 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling for sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok. 34 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done. 35 But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places. He was the builder of the higher doorway of the house of the Lord. 36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? 37 In those days the Lord first sent against Judah, Rezin, the king of Aram, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah. 38 And Jotham went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David his father; and Ahaz his son became king in his place.
  • 2 Kgs 15:8 : 8 In the thirty-eighth year of Azaliah, king of Judah, Zechariah, son of Jeroboam, was king over Israel for six months.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 14:1-2
    2 verses
    87%

    1In the second year of Joash, son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah, the son of Joash, became king of Judah.

    2He was twenty-five years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 15:2-3
    2 verses
    85%

    2He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for fifty-two years; his mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

    3And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.

  • 2 Kgs 8:25-26
    2 verses
    84%

    25In the twelfth year that Joram, the son of Ahab, was king of Israel, Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, became king;

    26Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri, king of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 14:23
    83%

    23In the fifteenth year of the rule of Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel, became king in Samaria, ruling for forty-one years.

  • 2 Kgs 15:32-33
    2 verses
    83%

    32In the second year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham, the son of Uzziah, became king of Judah.

    33He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling for sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.

  • 2 Kgs 14:21
    83%

    21Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

  • 2 Kgs 16:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    1In the seventeenth year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah, Ahaz, the son of Jotham, became king of Judah.

    2Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king; he was ruling for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as David his father did.

  • 2 Kgs 14:17
    81%

    17Amaziah, the son of Joash, king of Judah, went on living for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 26:3
    81%

    3Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for fifty-two years; his mother's name was Jechiliah of Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 25:25
    81%

    25Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, went on living for fifteen years after the death of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 25:1
    81%

    1Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 9:29
    81%

    29(In the eleventh year of the rule of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah.)

  • 1 Kgs 22:51
    81%

    51Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, and he was king over Israel for two years.

  • 1 Kgs 15:9
    80%

    9In the twentieth year that Jeroboam was king of Israel, Asa became king over Judah.

  • 2 Chr 26:1
    80%

    1Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

  • 2 Kgs 13:10
    80%

    10In the thirty-seventh year of the rule of Joash, king of Judah, Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for sixteen years.

  • 2 Kgs 15:6-8
    3 verses
    80%

    6Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

    7And Azariah went to rest with his fathers and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; and Jotham his son became king in his place.

    8In the thirty-eighth year of Azaliah, king of Judah, Zechariah, son of Jeroboam, was king over Israel for six months.

  • 2 Kgs 13:1
    79%

    1In the twenty-third year of Joash, the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for seventeen years.

  • 2 Chr 13:1
    79%

    1In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king over Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 8:16-17
    2 verses
    79%

    16In the fifth year of Joram, the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jehoram, the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, became king.

    17He was thirty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years.

  • 2 Chr 27:8
    78%

    8He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years.

  • 1 Kgs 15:1
    78%

    1Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah.

  • 2 Chr 27:1
    78%

    1Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years; and his mother's name was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

  • 2 Kgs 18:1
    77%

    1Now in the third year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah, the son of Ahaz, became king of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 22:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1And the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men who came with the Arabians to the army had put all the older sons to death. So Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, became king.

    2Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri.

  • 2 Kgs 15:13
    76%

    13Shallum, the son of Jabesh, became king in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah, king of Judah; and he was ruling in Samaria for the space of one month.

  • 2 Kgs 15:17
    76%

    17In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah, king of Judah, Menahem, the son of Gadi, became king over Israel, and was ruling in Samaria for ten years.

  • 2 Kgs 15:27
    76%

    27In the fifty-second year of Azariah, king of Judah, Pekah, the son of Remaliah, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for twenty years.

  • 1 Kgs 15:25
    76%

    25Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, became king over Israel in the second year that Asa was king of Judah; and he was king of Israel for two years.

  • 1 Kgs 22:41
    76%

    41And Jehoshaphat, the son of Asa, became king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab's rule over Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 15:23
    76%

    23In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah, the son of Menahem, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for two years.

  • 2 Chr 28:1
    76%

    1Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years; he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord, like David his father:

  • 2 Kgs 3:1
    75%

    1And Jehoram, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; and he was king for twelve years.

  • 1 Chr 3:12
    75%

    12Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,

  • 2 Chr 34:1
    75%

    1Josiah was eight years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years.

  • 2 Kgs 12:1
    75%

    1In the seventh year of Jehu's rule, Jehoash became king; and he was ruling for forty years in Jerusalem; his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.

  • 2 Kgs 11:21
    75%

    21And Jehoash was seven years old when he became king.

  • 2 Chr 24:1
    75%

    1Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he was ruling for forty years in Jerusalem: his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.

  • 1 Kgs 16:29
    74%

    29In the thirty-eighth year that Asa was king of Judah, Ahab, the son of Omri, became king over Israel; and Ahab was king in Samaria for twenty-two years.

  • 2 Chr 36:11
    74%

    11Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years.

  • 2 Kgs 22:1
    74%

    1Josiah was eight years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years; his mother's name was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.