2 Kings 14

In the year of two to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the king of Israel, Amaziah, the son of Joash, the king of Judah, reigned.

He was a son of 25 years when he reigned, and he reigned 29 years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother {was} Jehoaddan, from Jerusalem.

And he did right in the eyes of God, only not like David his father. Like all that Joash his father did, he did. \*

Only, the high places were not removed. The people were still sacrificing and burning incense at the high places.

And it happened, as soon as the kingdom was strong in his hand, that he struck his servants, the ones having struck the king, his father. \*

But the sons of the ones striking, he did not kill, as written in the book of the law of Moses, what God commanded, saying, “Fathers shall not be killed for sons, and sons shall not be killed for fathers. Rather, a man shall be killed for his sin.”

He, he struck Edom in the Valley of Salt, 10,000, and he captured Sela in battle. And he called its name Joktheel, to this day. \*

Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, the king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us see one another’s faces.”

And Jehoash, the king of Israel, sent to Amaziah, the king of Judah, saying, “A thornbush that {was} in Lebanon sent to a cedar that {was} in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ But a beast of the field that {was} in Lebanon passed by, and it trampled the thornbush.

Striking, you have struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Be honored, but stay in your house. For why should you contend with calamity, so that you will fall, you and Judah with you?” \*

But Amaziah did not listen. So Jehoash, the king of Israel, went up, and they saw one another’s faces, he and Amaziah, the king of Judah, at Beth Shemesh, which {is} to Judah.

And Judah was struck to the face of Israel. And they fled, a man to his tent. \*

And Jehoash, the king of Israel, captured Amaziah, the king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh. And he came to Jerusalem, and he broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Gate of the Corner, 400 cubits.

And he took all of the gold and the silver and all of the articles found {in} the house of God and in the treasuries of the house of the king, and sons of pledges. And he returned to Samaria. \*

Now the rest of the matters of Jehoash, what he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah, the king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the matters of the days of the kings of Israel?

And Jehoash lay down with his fathers, and he was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. And Jeroboam his son reigned in his place. \*

And Amaziah, the son of Joash, the king of Judah, lived 15 years after the death of Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, the king of Israel.

Now the rest of the matters of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the matters of the days of the kings of Judah?

And they conspired a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish, and they killed him there. \*

And they carried him on the horses, and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the City of David.

And all of the people of Judah took Azariah (now he {was} a son of 16 years), and they made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

He, he built up Elath, and he returned it to Judah after the king lay down with his fathers. \*

In the year of 15, the year to Amaziah, the son of Joash, the king of Judah, Jeroboam, the son of Joash, the king of Israel, reigned in Samaria, 41 years.

And he did evil in the eyes of God. He did not turn away from all of the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.

He, he restored the border of Israel from Lebo Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of God, the God of Israel, that he spoke by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, who {was} from Gath Hepher. \*

For God saw the very bitter affliction of Israel, and none restrained and none set free and no helper for Israel.

But God had not said that he would wipe out the name of Israel from under the heavens, so he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam, the son of Joash. \*

Now the rest of the matters of Jeroboam and all that he did and his might, how he fought and how he brought Damascus and Hamath of Judah back into Israel, are they not written in the book of the matters of the days of the kings of Israel?

And Jeroboam lay down with his fathers, with the kings of Israel, and Zechariah his son reigned in his place. \*