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26 All the other things that happened while Amaziah was king are written in a book. The book is called ‘The history of the kings of Judah and Israel’. 27 After Amaziah had turned away from the Lord, some people in Jerusalem made a plan to kill him. So he ran away to Lachish. But the people in Jerusalem sent men to catch him in Lachish. They killed Amaziah there.[a] 28 They carried his dead body back to Jerusalem on a horse. They buried him there beside his ancestors in the city of Judah.

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  1. 25:27 Amaziah died in about 767 BC.