| Chapter
14 |
| 1 | In the
second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of
Joash king of Judah. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 17 | And Amaziah the son of Joash
king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel
fifteen years. |
| 18 | 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. |
| 21 | And all the
people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king
instead 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, and reigned forty and one
years. |
| 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. |
|
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. |
| 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? |
| 29 | And Jeroboam slept with his fathers,
even with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead. |
