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1 In
the second year
of Joash, son
of Joahaz, king
of Israel, Amaziah
the son of
Joash king of
Judah began to
reign.
2 He
was twenty-five
years old when
he began to
reign; and he
reigned twenty-nine
years in Jerusalem.
His mother’s name
was Jehoaddin of
Jerusalem.
3 He
did that which
was right in
the LORD’s eyes,
yet not like
David his father.
He did according
to all that
Joash his father
had done.
4 However
the high places
were not taken
away. The people
still sacrificed
and burned incense
in the high
places.
5 As soon
as the kingdom
was established in
his hand, he
killed his
servants who had
slain the king
his father,
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 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
die 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 son
of Jehu, king
of Israel, saying, “Come, let’s look one
another in the
face.”
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.
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 fall, even you,
and Judah with
you?”
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.
12 Judah
was defeated by
Israel; and each
man fled to
his tent.
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,
then broke down
the wall of
Jerusalem from the
gate of Ephraim to
the corner gate,
four hundred cubits.
14 He
took all the
gold and silver
and all the
vessels that were
found in the
LORD’s house and
in the treasures
of the king’s
house, the
hostages also, and
returned to
Samaria.
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?
16 Jehoash
slept with
his fathers, and
was buried in
Samaria with the
kings of Israel;
and Jeroboam his
son reigned in
his place.
17 Amaziah the
son of Joash
king of Judah
lived after the
death of Jehoash
son of Jehoahaz,
king of Israel,
fifteen years.
18 Now
the rest of
the acts
of Amaziah, aren’t they
written in the
book of the
chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
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.
20 They
brought him on
horses, and he
was buried at
Jerusalem with
his fathers in
David’s city.
21 All
the people of
Judah took Azariah,
who was sixteen
years old, and
made him king
in the place
of his
father Amaziah.
22 He
built Elath and
restored it to
Judah. After that
the king slept
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 began to
reign in Samaria
for forty-one years.
24 He
did that which
was evil in
the LORD’s sight.
He didn’t depart
from all the
sins of Jeroboam
the son of
Nebat, with which
he made Israel
to sin.
25 He
restored the
border of Israel
from the entrance
of Hamath to
the sea of
the Arabah,
according to the
LORD, the God
of Israel’s word,
which he spoke
by his servant
Jonah the son
of Amittai, the
prophet, who was
from Gath Hepher.
26 For
the LORD saw
the affliction of
Israel, that it
was very bitter
for all, slave and
free; and there
was no helper
for Israel.
27 The
LORD 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.
28 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,
aren’t they written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Israel?
29 Jeroboam
slept with
his fathers, even with
the kings of
Israel; and
Zechariah his son
reigned in his
place.