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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>2 Kings 14 KJV</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/kjv/2_kings/14.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/5001.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 4800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 4800px)" href="/4801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1550px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1550px)" href="/1551.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1250px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1250px)" href="/1251.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1050px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1050px)" href="/1051.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 900px), only screen and (max-device-width: 900px)" href="/901.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 800px)" href="/801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/501.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h451.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><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="/combine/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="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">KJV</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">King James Bible</div><div class="chap"><a name="1" id="1"></a><p class="hdg">Amaziah's Good Reign in Judah<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../2_chronicles/25.htm">2 Chronicles 25:1-4</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>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 <i>was</i> Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And he did <i>that which was</i> right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which 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 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 the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto 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>And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that <i>was</i> in Lebanon sent to the cedar that <i>was</i> in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that <i>was</i> in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory <i>of this</i>, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to <i>thy</i> hurt, that thou shouldest fall, <i>even</i> thou, and Judah with thee?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Bethshemesh, which <i>belongeth</i> to Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to their tents. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>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.</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, <i>are</i> they not 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>And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.</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>And 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>And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, <i>are</i> they not 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>Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And 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>And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which <i>was</i> sixteen years old, and made him king instead 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, <i>and reigned</i> forty and one years. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And he did <i>that which was</i> evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>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 Amittai, the prophet, which <i>was</i> of Gathhepher. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, <i>that it was</i> very bitter: for <i>there was</i> not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/14-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>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 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, <i>which belonged</i> to Judah, for Israel, <i>are</i> they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 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