The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Kings 14
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 twentynine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s
name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.
3 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, yet not like David his father.
He did according to allthatJoash 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 soonas the kingdomwas 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 putto 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.”
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
animalthat 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 ofJudah 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 Yahweh’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 Amaziahthe sonofJoashking ofJudah
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 atJerusalem 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 inYahweh’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 Yahweh, 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 Yahweh saw the affliction ofIsrael,
that it was very bitter for all, slave and
free; and there was no helper for Israel.
27 Yahweh 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.