2 Kings 14:23 — Meaning and Application

And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which {was} sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah. {Azariah: also called, Uzziah}

He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, {and reigned} forty and one years.

And he did {that which was} evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which {was} of Gathhepher.