2Kings:14:1-22

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* In the second year of Joash the son of Jehoahaz the king of Israel , Amaziah the son of Joash the king of Judah reigned . * He was a son of twenty five years 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 the right in the eyes of Jehovah , but not like his father David ; he did according to all that his father Joash did ; * however , the high places were not taken away ; the people still sacrificed and offered in the high places . * And it happened , when the kingdom was strong in his hand , he put to death his servants , those who had put to death his father the king . * But he did not put to death the sons of those who struck him , as it is written in the book of the law of Moses that Jehovah commanded , saying , The fathers are not to be put to death for the sons , and the sons are not to be put to death for the fathers , but each shall be put to death for his own sin . * He struck Edom in the Valley of Salt , ten thousand , and captured the Rock by war , and called its name Joktheel to this day . * Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz , the son of Jehu , the king of Israel , saying , Come , we shall look one another in the face . * And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah the king of Judah , saying , The thorn that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar in Lebanon , saying , Give your daughter to my son as wife ; and a beast of the field in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thorn . * You have certainly stricken Edom , and your heart has lifted you up . Glory in it and stay in your house ; and why should you stir yourself up to evil so that you may fall , you and Judah with you ? * But Amaziah would not listen , and Jehoash the king of Israel went up ; and they looked one another in the face , he and Amaziah the king of Judah , in Beth-shemesh of Judah . * And Judah was stricken before Israel , and they each fled to his tent . * And Amaziah the king of Judah , the son of Joash , the son of Ahaziah , Jehoash the king of Israel caught in Beth-shemesh . And they came in to Jerusalem , and he broke through the wall of Jerusalem at 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 the hostages , and returned to Samaria . * And the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did , and his might , and how he fought with Amaziah the king of Judah , are they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel ? * And Jehoash lay with his fathers , and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel . And his son Jeroboam reigned in his place . * And Amaziah the son of Joash the king of Judah lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz the king of Israel . * And the rest of the acts of Amaziah , are they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days 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 killed him there . * And they lifted him up on the horses , and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David . * And all the people of Judah took Azariah (and he was a son of sixteen years ), and they made him king instead of his father Amaziah . * He built Elath and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his fathers .

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