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and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not like David his father: he did according to all that Joash his father had done. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>It happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father: <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>but the children of the murderers he didn't put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He killed of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us look one another in the face." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Jehoash the 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. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?'"</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Judah was defeated by Israel; and they fled every man to his tent. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.</p> <p class="hdg">Jeroboam II Succeeds Jehoash in Israel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.</p> <a name="17" id="17"></a><p class="hdg">Uzziah Succeeds Amaziah in Judah<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../2_chronicles/26.htm">2 Chronicles 26:1-5</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>They brought him on horses; and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.</p> <p class="hdg">Jeroboam II Reigns in Israel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, [and reigned] forty-one years. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he didn't depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath Hepher. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there any helper for Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Yahweh didn't say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, [which had belonged] to Judah, for Israel, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son reigned in his place.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. 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