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In the
second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of
Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of
Judah.
02 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.
03 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.
04 Howbeit the high places were not taken away:
as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense
on the high places.
05 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.
06 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.
07 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.
08 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.
09 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.
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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.
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.
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