The Second Book of Kings (WEB)
14: 1In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel began Amaziah the son of Joash
king of Judah to reign. 14:2He 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. 14:3He 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. 14:4However the high places were not taken away: the people still
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. 14:5It happened, as soon as the kingdom was
established in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father: 14:6but 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.
14:7He killed of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called the name
of it Joktheel, to this day. 14:8Then 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. 14:9Jehoash 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: and there passed by a wild animal that
was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle. 14:10You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has
lifted you up: glory of it, and abide at home; for why should you meddle to your hurt, that you
should fall, even you, and Judah with you? 14:11But Amaziah would not hear. 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. 14:12Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled
every man to his tent. 14:13Jehoash 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. 14:14He 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. 14:15Now 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? 14:16Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried
in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place. 14:17Amaziah the son
of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
14:18Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah? 14:19They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but
they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there. 14:20They brought him on horses; and he was
buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David. 14:21All the people of Judah took Azariah,
who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. 14:22He built
Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. 14:23In 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, and reigned forty-one years. 14:24He 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.
14:25He 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. 14:26For 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. 14:27Yahweh 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. 14:28Now 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? 14:29Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his
son reigned in his place.
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