2 Kings 14:8-29 ▼

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.

23 In the fifth year and tenth year of Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria, forty-one years.

24 And he did evil in the eyes of YHWH; he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin.

25 He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of YHWH, God of Israel, which He had spoken through His servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet who was from Gath-hepher.

26 For YHWH saw the affliction of Israel—very bitter—and there was none restrained and none set free, and no helper for Israel.

27 And YHWH had not spoken to blot out the name of Israel from under the heavens, and He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Joash.

28 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might with which he made war and with which he brought back Damascus and Hamath of Judah into Israel, are they not written in the Book of the Words of the Days of the Kings of Israel?

29 And Jeroboam rested with his fathers, with the kings of Israel. And Zechariah his son reigned in his place.