II Kings Chapter 14

II Kings Chapter 14
1 The second year of Joash son of
Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah
the son of Joash king of Judah.
2 He was five and twenty year old when
he began to reign, and reigned nine and
twenty year in Jerusalem, and his
mother's name was Jehoaddan of
Jerusalem.
3 And he did uprightly in the sight of the
Lord, yet not like David his father, but
did according to all that Joash his father
had done. 4 Notwithstanding the high
places were not taken away: for as yet
the people did sacrifice and burned
incense in the high places.
5 And when the kingdom was confirmed
in his hand, he slew his servants which
had killed the king his father.
6 But the children of those that did slay
him, he slew not, according unto that that
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
put to death for the fathers: but every
man shall be put to death for his own sin.
7 He slew also of Edom in the valley of
salt ten thousand, and took the city of
Sela by war, and called the name thereof
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 see one another in
the face. 9 Then Jehoash the king of
Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah,
saying, The thistle that is in Lebanon,
sent to the cedar that is in Lebanon,
saying, Give thy daughter to my son to
wife: and the wild beast that was in
Lebanon, went and trod down the thistle.
10 Because thou hast smitten Edom,
thine heart hath made thee proud: brag of
glory, and tarry at home. why dost thou
provoke to thine hurt, that thou shouldest
fall, and Judah with thee?
11 But Amaziah would not hear:
therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up:
and he and Amaziah king of Judah saw
one another in the face at Beth-shemesh
which is in Judah.
12 And Judah was put to the worse
before Israel, and they fled every man to
their tents.
13 But Jehoash king of Israel took
Amaziah king of Judah, the son of
Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh,
and came to Jerusalem, and
break down the wall of Jerusalem from
the gate of Ephraim to 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 the children that
were in hostage, and returned to
Samaria.
15 Concerning the rest of the acts of
Jehoash which he did and his valiant
deeds, 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 at Samaria among 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
year.
18 Concerning the rest of the acts of
Amaziah, are they not written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
19 But they wrought treason 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 Then all the people of Judah took
Azariah which was sixteen year old, and
made him king for 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, was
Jeroboam the son of Joash made king
over Israel in Samaria, and reigned one
and forty year.
24 And he did evil in the sight of the
Lord: for he departed not from all the
sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
which made Israel to sin.
25 He restored the coast of Israel, from
the entering of Hamath, unto the sea of
the wilderness, according to the word of
the Lord God of Israel, which he spake
by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai
the prophet, which was of Gath Hepher.
26 For the Lord saw the exceeding bitter
affliction of Israel, so that there was
none shut up, nor any left, neither yet any
that could help Israel. 27 Yet the Lord
had not decreed to put out the name of
Israel from under the heaven: therefore
he preserved them by the hand of
Jeroboam the son of Joash.
28 Concerning the rest of the acts of
Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his
valiant deeds, and how he fought, and
how he restored Damascus, and Hamath
to Judah in Israel, are they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
29 So Jeroboam slept with his fathers,
even with the kings of Israel, and
Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.