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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Kings 14 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_kings/14.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_kings/14-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > 2 Kings 14</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_kings/13.htm" title="2 Kings 13">◄</a> 2 Kings 14 <a href="../2_kings/15.htm" title="2 Kings 15">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/2_kings/14.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Amaziah King of Judah</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In the second year of Jehoash <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew Joash, a variant of Jehoash; also in verses 13, 23 and 27">a</a></sup></span> son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah began to reign. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He did what was right in the eyes of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, but not as his father David had done. In everything he followed the example of his father Joash. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>After the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Yet he did not put the children of the assassins to death, in accordance with what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses where the <span class="name">Lord</span> commanded: “Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.” <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Deut. 24:16">b</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He was the one who defeated ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and captured Sela in battle, calling it Joktheel, the name it has to this day.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, with the challenge: “Come, let us face each other in battle.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle underfoot. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You have indeed defeated Edom and now you are arrogant. Glory in your victory, but stay at home! Why ask for trouble and cause your own downfall and that of Judah also?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Amaziah, however, would not listen, so Jehoash king of Israel attacked. He and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth Shemesh in Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Judah was routed by Israel, and every man fled to his home. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh. Then Jehoash went to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section about four hundred cubits long. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 600 feet or about 180 meters">c</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the temple of the <span class="name">Lord</span> and in the treasuries of the royal palace. He also took hostages and returned to Samaria.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>As for the other events of the reign of Jehoash, what he did and his achievements, including his war against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Jehoash rested with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. And Jeroboam his son succeeded him as king.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>As for the other events of Amaziah’s reign, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>They conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish, but they sent men after him to Lachish and killed him there. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He was brought back by horse and was buried in Jerusalem with his ancestors, in the City of David.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Also called Uzziah">d</a></sup></span> who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after Amaziah rested with his ancestors.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Jeroboam II King of Israel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>In the fifteenth year of Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam son of Jehoash king of Israel became king in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>He did evil in the eyes of the <span class="name">Lord</span> and did not turn away from any of the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>He was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from Lebo Hamath to the Dead Sea, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew the Sea of the Arabah">e</a></sup></span> in accordance with the word of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, spoken through his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> had seen how bitterly everyone in Israel, whether slave or free, was suffering; <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Israel was suffering. They were without a ruler or leader, and">f</a></sup></span> there was no one to help them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And since the <span class="name">Lord</span> had not said he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>As for the other events of Jeroboam’s reign, all he did, and his military achievements, including how he recovered for Israel both Damascus and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/14-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Jeroboam rested with his ancestors, the kings of Israel. And Zechariah his son succeeded him as king.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">Hebrew <i>Joash,</i> a variant of <i>Jehoash</i>; also in verses 13, 23 and 27</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotebot">Deut. 24:16</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 600 feet or about 180 meters</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">21</span> <span class="footnotebot">Also called <i>Uzziah</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> <span class="footnotebot">Hebrew <i>the Sea of the Arabah</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>Israel was suffering. 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