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Chapter 14 |
| 1 | In the second
year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash
king of Judah. |
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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. |
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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. |
| 4 | Howbeit the high places were
not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high
places. |
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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.
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| 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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| 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. |
| 12 | And
Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to their
tents. |
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| 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. |
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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.
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| 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? |
| 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. |
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17 | And Amaziah the son of Joash king of
Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen
years. |
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| And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? |
| 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. |
| 20 | And they
brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the
city of David. |
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21 | And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was
sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah. |
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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, and
reigned forty and one years. |
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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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
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| And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings
of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead. |
