From the Death of Ahab to the Captivity of the Ten Tribes - Flavius Josephus

Chapter 12
The Death of Jotham
1. Now Jotham died when he had lived forty-one years, and of them
reigned sixteen, and was buried in the sepulchers of the kings; and the
kingdom came to his son Ahaz, who proved most impious towards God, and
a transgressor of the laws of his country. He imitated the kings of Israel, and
reared altars in Jerusalem, and offered sacrifices upon them to idols; to
which also he offered his own son as a burnt-offering, according to the
practices of the Canaanites. His other actions were also of the same sort.
Now as he was going on in this mad course, Rezin, the king of Syria and
Damascus, and Pekah, the king of Israel, who were now at amity one with
another, made war with him; and when they had driven him into Jerusalem,
they besieged that city a long while, making but a small progress, on account
of the strength of its walls; and when the king of Syria had taken the city
Elath, upon the Red Sea, and had slain the inhabitants, he peopled it with
Syrians; and when he had slain those in the [other] garrisons, and the Jews in
their neighborhood, and had driven away much prey, he returned with his
army back to Damascus. Now when the king of Jerusalem knew that the
Syrians were returned home, he, supposing himself a match for the king of
Israel, drew out his army against him, and joining battle with him was
beaten; and this happened because God was angry with him, on account of
his many and great enormities. Accordingly there were slain by the Israelites
one hundred and twenty thousand of his men that day, whose general,
Amaziah by name, slew Zechariah the king's son, in his conflict with Ahaz,
as well as the governor of the kingdom, whose name was Azricam. He also
carried Elkanah, the general of the troops of the tribe of Judah, into captivity.
They also carried the women and children of the tribe of Benjamin captives;
and when they had gotten a great deal of prey, they returned to Samaria.
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