2Kings:14:1-22

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* In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz , king of Israel , began Amaziah the son of Joash , king of Judah , to reign . * He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign ; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem ; and his mother 's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem . * And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah , yet not like David his father : he did according to all that Joash his father had done . * Only , the high places were not removed : the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places . * And it came to pass when the kingdom was established in his hand , that he slew his servants who had smitten the king his father . * But the children of those that smote [him ] he did not put to death ; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses , wherein Jehovah commanded saying , The fathers shall not be put to death for the children , neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers ; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin . * He smote of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand , and took Sela in the war , and called the name of it Joktheel to this day . * 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 . * And Jehoash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah , saying , The thorn-bush that is in Lebanon sent to the cedar that is in Lebanon , saying , Give thy daughter to my son as wife ; and there passed by the wild beast that is in Lebanon , and trode down the thorn-bush . * Thou hast indeed smitten Edom , and thy heart has lifted thee up : boast thyself , and abide at home ; for why shouldest thou contend with misfortune , that thou shouldest fall , thou , and Judah with thee ? * But Amaziah would not hear . And Jehoash king of Israel went up ; and they looked one another in the face , he and Amaziah king of Judah , at Beth-shemesh , which is in Judah . * And Judah was routed before Israel ; and they fled every man to his tent . * And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah , the son of Jehoash 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 . * And he took all the gold and the silver , and all the vessels that were found in the house of Jehovah , and in the treasures of the king 's house , and hostages , and returned to Samaria . * And the rest of the acts of Jehoash , what he did , and his might , and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah , are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel ? * And Jehoash slept with his fathers , and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel ; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead . * And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz , king of Israel , fifteen years . * And the rest of the acts of Amaziah , are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah ? * And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem ; and he fled to Lachish ; and they sent after him to Lachish , and slew him there . * And they brought him on horses , and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers , in the city of David . * And all the people of Judah took Azariah , who was sixteen years old , and made him king instead of his father Amaziah . * It was he that built Elath , and restored it to Judah , after the king slept with his fathers .

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