2 Kings 14:1-22 ▼

1 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah became king.

2 He was a son of twenty-five years in his reigning, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And the name of His mother was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

3 And he did right in the eyes of YHWH, yet not like David his father. According to all that Joash his father had done, he did.

4 However the high places were not taken away; still the people sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he killed his servants who had struck the king, his father.

6 And the sons of those striking he did not kill, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, in which YHWH commanded, saying, “Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, and children shall not be put to death for their fathers; for but a person for his own sin shall be put to death.”

7 He struck Edom in the Valley of Salt—ten thousand—and he seized Sela by war and called its name Joktheel to this day.

8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us cause to be seen our faces.”

9 And Jehoash 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 your daughter to my son as wife.’ And a beast of the field that was in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thistle.

10 You have surely struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Be honored and stay at home. And why should you stir yourself up in evil so that you will fall—you and Judah with you?”

11 And Amaziah would not listen, and Jehoash king of Israel went up. And they cause to be seen their faces—he and Amaziah king of Judah—at Beth-shemesh, which is unto Judah.

12 And Judah was defeated by Israel, and they fled, each man to his tent.

13 And Amaziah king of Judah, son of Jehoash son of Ahaziah, captured Jehoash king of Israel at Beth-shemesh. And he went in to Jerusalem, and he broke down the wall of Jerusalem, from the Gate of Ephraim to the Gate of the Corner—four hundred cubits.

14 And he took all the gold and the silver and all the articles that were found in the house of YHWH and in the treasuries of the house of the king, and the sons of the pledges; and he returned to Samaria.

15 And the rest of the acts of Jehoash that he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Words of the Days of the Kings of Israel?

16 And Jehoash rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. And Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.

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

18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the Book of the Words of the Days of the Kings of Judah?

19 And they formed a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. And they sent after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.

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

21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah—and he was a son of sixteen years—and they made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

22 He built Elath and brought it back to Judah after the king rested with his fathers.