King James Version2 Kings14

2 Kings

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.