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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>2 Kings 14 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</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="/bmcc/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/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NRSVCE</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 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Amaziah Reigns over Judah</span></h3><p class="chapter-2"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>In the second year of King Joash son of Joahaz of Israel, King Amaziah son of Joash of Judah, began to reign. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>He did what was right in the sight of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, yet not like his ancestor David; in all things he did as his father Joash had done. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>But the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>As soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand he killed his servants who had murdered his father the king. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>But he did not put to death the children of the murderers; according to what is written in the book of the law of Moses, where the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> commanded, “The parents shall not be put to death for the children, or the children be put to death for the parents; but all shall be put to death for their own sins.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm; he called it Jokthe-el, which is its name to this day.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Then Amaziah sent messengers to King Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>King Jehoash of Israel sent word to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife’; but a wild animal of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thornbush. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory, and stay at home; for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>But Amaziah would not listen. So King Jehoash of Israel went up; he and King Amaziah of Judah faced one another in battle at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Judah was defeated by Israel; everyone fled home. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>King Jehoash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh; he came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate, a distance of four hundred cubits. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>He seized all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> and in the treasuries of the king’s house, as well as hostages; then he returned to Samaria.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Now the rest of the acts that Jehoash did, his might, and how he fought with King Amaziah of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Jehoash slept with his ancestors, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; then his son Jeroboam succeeded him.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>King Amaziah son of Joash of Judah lived fifteen years after the death of King Jehoash son of Jehoahaz of Israel. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Now the rest of the deeds of Amaziah, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</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> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>They brought him on horses; he was buried in Jerusalem with his ancestors in the city of David. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king to succeed his father Amaziah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>He rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah, after King Amaziah<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-9919a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> slept with his ancestors.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Jeroboam II Reigns over Israel</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>In the fifteenth year of King Amaziah son of Joash of Judah, King Jeroboam son of Joash of Israel began to reign in Samaria; he reigned forty-one years. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>He did what was evil in the sight of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he caused Israel to sin. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>He restored the border of Israel from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath-hepher. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>For the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> saw that the distress of Israel was very bitter; there was no one left, bond or free, and no one to help Israel. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>But the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> had not said that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, so he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Joash.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he recovered for Israel Damascus and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>Jeroboam slept with his ancestors, the kings of Israel; his son Zechariah succeeded him.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Kings 14:22">2 Kings 14:22</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>the king</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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