Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Second
Kings: Chapter 14
1. IN the second year of Joash
son of Je-ho-a-haz king of Israel reigned Am-a-zi-ah 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
Je-ho-ad-dan 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 the servant 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 their 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 Jok-theel unto this day.
8. Then Am-a-zi-ah sent messengers to Je-ho-ash, the son of Je-ho-a-haz
son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in
the face.
9. And Je-ho-ash the king of Israel sent to Am-a-zi-ah king of Judah,
saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the 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 Am-a-zi-ah would not hear. Therefore Je-ho-ash king of
Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in
the face at Beth-she-mesh, which belongeth to Judah.
12. And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every
man to their tents.
13. And Je-ho-ash king of Israel took Am-a-zi-ah king of Judah, the son
of Jehoash the son of A-ha-zi-ah, at Beth-she-mesh, and came to
Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of E-phra-im
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 Je-ho-ash which he did, and his might,
and how he fought with Am-a-zi-ah king of Judah, are they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
16. And Je-ho-ash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with
the kings of Israel; and Jer-o-bo-am his son reigned in his stead.
17. And Am-a-zi-ah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death
of Je-ho-ash son of Je-ho-a-haz king of Israel fifteen years.
18. And the rest of the acts of Am-a-zi-ah, 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
La-chish; 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 Az-a-ri-ah, which was sixteen years
old, and made him king instead of his father Am-a-zi-ah.
22. He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept
with his fathers.
23. In the fifteenth year of Am-a-zi-ah the son of Joash king of Judah
Jer-o-bo-am 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 Jer-o-bo-am 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 A-mit-tai,
the prophet, which was of Gath-he-pher.
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 Jer-o-bo-am the son of
Joash.
28. Now the rest of the acts of Jer-o-bo-am, and all that he did, and
his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath,
which belongeth to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
29. And Jer-o-bo-am slept with his fathers, even with the kings of
Israel; and Zach-a-ri-ah his son reigned in his stead.
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