²³ Then Joash the king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of ^(A)Jehoahaz, at Beth Shemesh; and he brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate—four hundred cubits.

¹⁶ Then the people went out and brought them and made themselves booths, each one on the ^(A)roof of his house, or in their courtyards or the courts of the house of God, and in the open square of the ^(B)Water Gate ^(C)and in the open square of the Gate of Ephraim.

¹⁷ And they came up into Judah and invaded it, and carried away all the possessions that were found in the king’s house, and also ^(A)his sons and his wives, so that there was not a son left to him except ^[a]Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

³⁸ “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that the city shall be built for the Lord ^(A)from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.

^39 (A)and above the Gate of Ephraim, above ^(B)the Old Gate, above ^(C)the Fish Gate, ^(D)the Tower of Hananel, the Tower of ^[a]the Hundred, as far as ^(E)the Sheep Gate; and they stopped by ^(F)the Gate of the Prison.

⁹ And Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the ^(A)Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate, and at the corner buttress of the wall; then he fortified them.

Ahaziah Reigns in Judah^(A)

22 Then the inhabitants of Jerusalem made ^(B)Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place, for the raiders who came with the ^(C)Arabians into the camp had killed all the ^(D)older sons. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, reigned.

^11 (A)For whoever exalts himself will be ^[a]humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”