In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria, {and reigned} forty-one years.
He R340 restored the border of Israel from the R341 entrance of Hamath as far as the R342 Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, which He spoke through F192 His servant Jonah R343 the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath-hepher. R344
For the LORD R345 saw the affliction of Israel, {which was} very bitter; for there R346 was neither bond nor free, nor was there any helper for Israel.
Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did and his might, how he fought and how he recovered for Israel, Damascus R348 and Hamath, R349 {which had belonged} to Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?