2 Kings Chapter 14 Back Next{14:1} In the second year of
Joash son of
Joahaz king of
Israel began
Amaziah the son of Joash king of
Judah to reign.
{14:2} He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in
Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.
{14:3} He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not like
David his
father: he did according to all that Joash his father had done.
{14:4} However the
high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt
incense in the high places.
{14:5} It happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father:
{14:6} but the children of the murderers he didn't put to
death; according to that which is written in the book of the
law of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, "The 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."
{14:7} He killed of
Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called its name
Joktheel, to this day.
{14:8} Then Amaziah sent messengers to
Jehoash, the son of
Jehoahaz son of
Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us look one another in the face."
{14:9} Jehoash the 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. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.
{14:10} 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 should fall, even you, and Judah with you?'"
{14:11} 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.
{14:12} Judah was defeated by Israel; and they fled every man to his tent.
{14:13} 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.
{14:14} He took all the
gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
{14:15} Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
{14:16} Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and
Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.
{14:17} Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
{14:18} Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
{14:19} They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to
Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.
{14:20} They brought him on
horses; and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
{14:21} All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
{14:22} He built
Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
{14:23} 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.
{14:24} He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he didn't depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.
{14:25} He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of
Hamath to the sea of the
Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant
Jonah the son of
Amittai, the prophet, who was of
Gath Hepher.
{14:26} For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very
bitter; for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there any helper for Israel.
{14:27} Yahweh didn't 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.
{14:28} Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered
Damascus, and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, for Israel, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
{14:29} Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son reigned in his place.
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