2KI-14:1 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of
Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
2KI-14:2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign,
and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name [was] Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
2KI-14:3 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all
things as Joash his father did.
2KI-14:4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the
people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
2KI-14:5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was
confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain
the king his father.
2KI-14:6 But the children of the murderers he slew not:
according unto that which is written in the book of the law of
Moses, wherein the LORD 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 be put to death for
his own sin.
2KI-14:7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and
took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this
day.
2KI-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.
2KI-14:9 And 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 thy daughter to my son
to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that [was] in Lebanon,
and trode down the thistle.
2KI-14:10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath
lifted thee up: glory [of this], and tarry at home: for why
shouldest thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou shouldest fall,
[even] thou, and Judah with thee?
2KI-14:11 But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of
Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one
another in the face at Bethshemesh, which [belongeth] to Judah.
2KI-14:12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they
fled every man to their tents.
2KI-14:13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah,
the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came
to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate
of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
2KI-14:14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the
vessels that were found in the house of the LORD, and in the
treasures of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to
Samaria.
2KI-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, [are]
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
2KI-14:16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in
Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned
in his stead.
2KI-14:17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after
the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen
years.
2KI-14:18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, [are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2KI-14:19 Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem:
and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and
slew him there.
2KI-14:20 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at
Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
2KI-14:21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which [was]
sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father
Amaziah.
2KI-14:22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that
the king slept with his fathers.
2KI-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, [and reigned] forty and one years.
2KI-14:24 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
2KI-14:25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of
Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the
LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant
Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which [was] of
Gathhepher.
2KI-14:26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, [that it
was] very bitter: for [there was] not any shut up, nor any left,
nor any helper for Israel.
2KI-14:27 And the LORD said not 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.
2KI-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 belonged] to Judah, for Israel, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2KI-14:29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, [even] with the
kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
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