2Kings:13-14
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In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah ,
king of Judah ,
Jehoahaz the son of Jehu became king over Israel in Samaria ,
and reigned seventeen years .
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And he did evil in the sight of the LORD ,
and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat ,
who had made Israel sin .
He did not depart from them .
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Then the anger of the LORD was aroused against Israel ,
and He delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria ,
and into the hand of Ben-Hadad the son of Hazael ,
all their days .
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So Jehoahaz pleaded with the LORD ,
and the LORD listened to him ;
for He saw the oppression of Israel ,
because the king of Syria oppressed them .
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Then the LORD gave Israel a deliverer ,
so that they escaped from under the hand of the Syrians ;
and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents as before .
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Nevertheless they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam ,
who had made Israel sin ,
but walked in them ;
and the wooden image also remained in Samaria .
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For He left of the army of Jehoahaz only fifty horsemen ,
ten chariots ,
and ten thousand foot soldiers ;
for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing .
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Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz ,
all that he did ,
and his might ,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel ?
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So Jehoahaz rested with his fathers ,
and they buried him in Samaria .
Then Joash his son reigned in his place .
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In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah ,
Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz became king over Israel in Samaria ,
and reigned sixteen years .
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And he did evil in the sight of the LORD .
He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat ,
who made Israel sin ,
but walked in them .
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Now the rest of the acts of Joash ,
all that he did ,
and his might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah ,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel ?
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So Joash rested with his fathers .
Then Jeroboam sat on his throne .
And Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel .
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Elisha had become sick with the illness of which he would die .
Then Joash the king of Israel came down to him ,
and wept over his face ,
and said , "
O my father ,
my father ,
the chariots of Israel and their horsemen !"
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And Elisha said to him , "
Take a bow and some arrows ."
So he took himself a bow and some arrows .
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Then he said to the king of Israel , "
Put your hand on the bow ."
So he put his hand on it ,
and Elisha put his hands on the king '
s hands .
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And he said , "
Open the east window ";
and he opened it .
Then Elisha said , "
Shoot ";
and he shot .
And he said , "
The arrow of the LORD '
s deliverance and the arrow of deliverance from Syria ;
for you must strike the Syrians at Aphek till you have destroyed them ."
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Then he said , "
Take the arrows ";
so he took them .
And he said to the king of Israel , "
Strike the ground ";
so he struck three times ,
and stopped .
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And the man of God was angry with him ,
and said , "
You should have struck five or six times ;
then you would have struck Syria till you had destroyed it !
But now you will strike Syria only three times ."
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Then Elisha died ,
and they buried him .
And the raiding bands from Moab invaded the land in the spring of the year .
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So it was ,
as they were burying a man ,
that suddenly they spied a band of raiders ;
and they put the man in the tomb of Elisha ;
and when the man was let down and touched the bones of Elisha ,
he revived and stood on his feet .
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And Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz .
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But the LORD was gracious to them ,
had compassion on them ,
and regarded them ,
because of His covenant with Abraham ,
Isaac ,
and Jacob ,
and would not yet destroy them or cast them from His presence .
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Now Hazael king of Syria died .
Then Ben-Hadad his son reigned in his place .
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And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz recaptured from the hand of Ben-Hadad ,
the son of Hazael ,
the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war .
Three times Joash defeated him and recaptured the cities of Israel .
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In the second year of Joash the son of Jehoahaz ,
king of Israel ,
Amaziah the son of Joash ,
king of Judah ,
became king .
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He was twenty-five years old when he became king ,
and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem .
His mother '
s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem .
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And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD ,
yet not like his father David ;
he did everything as his father Joash had done .
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However the high places were not taken away ,
and the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places .
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Now it happened ,
as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand ,
that he executed his servants who had murdered his father the king .
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But the children of the murderers he did not execute ,
according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses ,
in which the LORD commanded ,
saying , "
Fathers shall not be put to death for their children ,
nor shall children be put to death for their fathers ;
but a person shall be put to death for his own sin ."
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He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt ,
and took Sela by war ,
and called its name Joktheel to this day .
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Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz ,
the son of Jehu ,
king of Israel ,
saying , "
Come ,
let us face one another in battle ."
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And Jehoash 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 ';
and a wild beast that was in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thistle .
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You have indeed defeated Edom ,
and your heart has lifted you up .
Glory in that ,
and stay at home ;
for why should you meddle with trouble so that you fall--you and Judah with you ?"
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But Amaziah would not heed .
Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went out ;
so he and Amaziah king of Judah faced one another at Beth Shemesh ,
which belongs to Judah .
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And Judah was defeated by Israel ,
and every man fled to his tent .
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Then Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah ,
the son of Jehoash ,
the son of Ahaziah ,
at Beth Shemesh ;
and he went to Jerusalem ,
and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate--four hundred cubits .
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And he took all the gold and silver ,
all the articles that were found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king '
s house ,
and hostages ,
and returned to Samaria .
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Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did--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 ?
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So Jehoash rested with his fathers ,
and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel .
Then Jeroboam his son reigned in his place .
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Amaziah the son of Joash ,
king of Judah ,
lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz ,
king of Israel .
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Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah ,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah ?
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And they formed a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem ,
and he fled to Lachish ;
but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there .
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Then they brought him on horses ,
and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the City of David .
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And all the people of Judah took Azariah ,
who was sixteen years old ,
and made him king instead of his father Amaziah .
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He built Elath and restored it to Judah ,
after the king rested with his fathers .
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In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash ,
king of Judah ,
Jeroboam the son of Joash ,
king of Israel ,
became king in Samaria ,
and reigned forty-one years .
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And he did evil in the sight of the LORD ;
he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat ,
who had made Israel sin .
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He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah ,
according to the word of the LORD God of Israel ,
which He had spoken through His servant Jonah the son of Amittai ,
the prophet who was from Gath Hepher .
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For the LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter ;
and whether bond or free ,
there was no helper for Israel .
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And the LORD did not say 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 .
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Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam ,
and all that he did--his might ,
how he made war ,
and how he recaptured for Israel ,
from Damascus and Hamath ,
what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel ?
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So Jeroboam rested with his fathers ,
the kings of Israel .
Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place .
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In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel ,
Azariah the son of Amaziah ,
king of Judah ,
became king .
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