23In the fifteenth year of Amaziah son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria; he reigned forty-one years.24He did what was bad in the eyes of the LORD; he did not turn aside from any of the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, by which he caused Israel to sin.25He restored the territory of Israel from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, which he spoke by the hand of his servant Jonah son of Amittai the prophet, who was from Gath-hepher.26For the LORD had seen the affliction of Israel; it was in bitter rebellion, and there was neither restraint nor support, and no one was helping Israel.27The LORD had not said that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, so he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Joash.28Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, all that he did, his might, how he fought, and how he recovered Damascus and Hamath for Judah in Israel—are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?29Jeroboam slept with his fathers, the kings of Israel, and his son Zechariah reigned in his place.