2 Kings 14
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v1
In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah began to reign.
v2
He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His motherโs name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.
v3
He did that which was right in Yahwehโs eyes, yet not like David his father. He did according to all that Joash his father had done.
v4
However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
v5
As soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, he killed his servants who had slain the king his father,
v6
but the children of the murderers he didnโt put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, โThe fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.โ
v7
He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.
v8
Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, โCome, letโs look one another in the face.โ
v9
Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, โThe thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, โGive your daughter to my son as wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.
v10
You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?โโ
v11
But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
v12
Judah was defeated by Israel; and each man fled to his tent.
v13
Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
v14
He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in Yahwehโs house and in the treasures of the kingโs house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
v15
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, arenโt they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
v16
Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.
v17
Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
v18
Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, arenโt they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
v19
They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.
v20
They brought him on horses, and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in Davidโs city.
v21
All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
v22
He built Elath, and restored it to Judah. After that the king slept with his fathers.
v23
In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria for forty-one years.
v24
He did that which was evil in Yahwehโs sight. He didnโt depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.
v25
He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to Yahweh, the God of Israelโs word, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath Hepher.
v26
For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for all, slave and free, and there was no helper for Israel.
v27
Yahweh didnโt say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
v28
Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, for Israel, arenโt they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
v29
Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son reigned in his place.