And he had brethren, the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, Jehiel, and Zech-ariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah.
And Jehoram rose up on the realm of his father; and when he had con-firmed himself in the realm, he slew all his brethren by sword, and also some of the princes of Judah.
The which compassed Judah, and gathered together deacons [or Levites] of all the cities of Judah, and the princes of the families of Israel, and they came into Jerusalem.
And he gathered together [the] priests and deacons [or Levites], and said to them, Go ye out to the cities of Judah, and gather ye of all Israel money, to the repairing of the temple of your Lord God, by each year; and do ye this thing hastily. Certainly the deacons did this thing negligently.
offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus, his smiters, or destroyers, and he said, The gods of the kings of Syria help them, which gods I shall please by sacrifices, and they shall help me; when, on the contrary, they were falling to him, and to all Israel.
And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of Jerusalem; for they received not him into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel; and Hezekiah, his son, reigned for him.
Forsooth the residue of [the] deeds of Manasseh, and his beseeching to his Lord God, and the words of [the] prophets, that spake to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, be contained in the words of the kings of Israel.
No pask was like this in Israel, from the days of Samuel, the prophet; but neither any of the kings of Israel made pask as Josiah did, to [the] priests and deacons [or Levites], and to all Judah and Israel, that was found there, and to the dwellers of Jerusalem.