2 Kings
Chapter Fourteen
1 ¶ In the second
year of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash,
king of Judah, became king.
2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine
years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
3 And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like his father
David; he did everything as his father Joash had done.
4 However the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed
and burned incense on the high places.
5 Now it happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that
he executed his servants who had murdered his father the king.
6 But the children of the murderers he did not execute, according to what is
written in the Book of the Law of Moses, in which the LORD commanded, saying,
"Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children
be put to death for their fathers; but a person shall be put to death for his
own sin."
7 He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war,
and called its name Joktheel to this day.
8 ¶ Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz, the son
of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us face one another in battle."
9 And Jehoash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, "The
thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, 'Give
your daughter to my son as wife'; and a wild beast that was in Lebanon passed
by and trampled the thistle.
10 "You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Glory
in that, and stay at home; for why should you meddle with trouble so that you
fall-you and Judah with you?"
11 But Amaziah would not heed. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went out; so
he and Amaziah king of Judah faced one another at Beth Shemesh, which belongs
to Judah.
12 And Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled to his tent.
13 Then Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash,
the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh; and he went to Jerusalem, and broke down
the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate-four hundred
cubits.
14 And he took all the gold and silver, all the articles that were found in
the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king's house, and hostages,
and returned to Samaria.
15 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did-his might, and how
he fought with Amaziah king of Judah-are they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
16 So Jehoash rested with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings
of Israel. Then Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.
17 Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death
of Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.
18 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
19 And they formed a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish;
but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there.
20 Then they brought him on horses, and he was buried at Jerusalem with his
fathers in the City of David.
21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and
made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
22 He built Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king rested with his fathers.
23 ¶ 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.
24 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart from all the
sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin.
25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea
of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which He had
spoken through His servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet who was from
Gath Hepher.
26 For the LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter; and whether
bond or free, there was no helper for Israel.
27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under
heaven; but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did-his might, how
he made war, and how he recaptured for Israel, from Damascus and Hamath, what
had belonged to Judah- are they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel?
29 So Jeroboam rested with his fathers, the kings of Israel. Then Zechariah
his son reigned in his place.
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