2Kings:13-14
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In the twenty-third year of Jo '
ash the son of Ahazi '
ah ,
king of Judah ,
Jeho '
ahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Sama '
ria ,
and he reigned seventeen years .
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He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD ,
and followed the sins of Jerobo '
am the son of Nebat ,
which he made Israel to sin ;
he did not depart from them .
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And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel ,
and he gave them continually into the hand of Haz '
ael king of Syria and into the hand of Ben-ha '
dad the son of Haz '
ael .
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Then Jeho '
ahaz besought the LORD ,
and the LORD hearkened to him ;
for he saw the oppression of Israel ,
how the king of Syria oppressed them .
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Therefore the LORD gave Israel a savior ,
so that they escaped from the hand of the Syrians ;
and the people of Israel dwelt in their homes as formerly .
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Nevertheless they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jerobo '
am ,
which he made Israel to sin ,
but walked in them ;
and the Ashe '
rah also remained in Sama '
ria .)
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For there was not left to Jeho '
ahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen ;
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 Jeho '
ahaz and 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 Jeho '
ahaz slept with his fathers ,
and they buried him in Sama '
ria ;
and Jo '
ash his son reigned in his stead .
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In the thirty-seventh year of Jo '
ash king of Judah Jeho '
ash the son of Jeho '
ahaz began to reign over Israel in Sama '
ria ,
and he reigned sixteen years .
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He also did what was evil in the sight of the LORD ;
he did not depart from all the sins of Jerobo '
am the son of Nebat ,
which he made Israel to sin ,
but he walked in them .
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Now the rest of the acts of Jo '
ash ,
and all that he did ,
and the might with which he fought against Amazi '
ah king of Judah ,
are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel ?
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So Jo '
ash slept with his fathers ,
and Jerobo '
am sat upon his throne ;
and Jo '
ash was buried in Sama '
ria with the kings of Israel .
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Now when Eli '
sha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die ,
Jo '
ash king of Israel went down to him ,
and wept before him ,
crying , "
My father ,
my father !
The chariots of Israel and its horsemen !"
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And Eli '
sha said to him , "
Take a bow and arrows ";
so he took a bow and arrows .
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Then he said to the king of Israel , "
Draw the bow ";
and he drew it .
And Eli '
sha laid his hands upon the king '
s hands .
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And he said , "
Open the window eastward ";
and he opened it .
Then Eli '
sha said , "
Shoot ";
and he shot .
And he said , "
The LORD '
s arrow of victory ,
the arrow of victory over Syria !
For you shall fight the Syrians in Aphek until you have made an end of them ."
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And he said , "
Take the arrows ";
and he took them .
And he said to the king of Israel , "
Strike the ground with them ";
and he struck three times ,
and stopped .
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Then the man of God was angry with him ,
and said , "
You should have struck five or six times ;
then you would have struck down Syria until you had made an end of it ,
but now you will strike down Syria only three times ."
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So Eli '
sha died ,
and they buried him .
Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year .
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And as a man was being buried ,
lo ,
a marauding band was seen and the man was cast into the grave of Eli '
sha ;
and as soon as the man touched the bones of Eli '
sha ,
he revived ,
and stood on his feet .
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Now Haz '
ael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jeho '
ahaz .
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But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion on them ,
and he turned toward them ,
because of his covenant with Abraham ,
Isaac ,
and Jacob ,
and would not destroy them ;
nor has he cast them from his presence until now .
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When Haz '
ael king of Syria died ,
Ben-ha '
dad his son became king in his stead .
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Then Jeho '
ash the son of Jeho '
ahaz took again from Ben-ha '
dad the son of Haz '
ael the cities which he had taken from Jeho '
ahaz his father in war .
Three times Jo '
ash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel .
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In the second year of Jo '
ash the son of Jo '
ahaz ,
king of Israel ,
Amazi '
ah the son of Jo '
ash ,
king of Judah ,
began to reign .
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He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign ,
and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem .
His mother '
s name was Jeho-ad '
din of Jerusalem .
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And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD ,
yet not like David his father ;
he did in all things as Jo '
ash his father had done .
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But the high places were not removed ;
the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places .
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And as soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand he killed his servants who had slain the king his father .
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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 LORD commanded , "
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children ,
or the children be put to death for the fathers ;
but every man shall die for his own sin ."
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He killed ten thousand E '
domites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm ,
and called it Jok '
the-el ,
which is its name to this day .
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Then Amazi '
ah sent messengers to Jeho '
ash the son of Jeho '
ahaz ,
son of Jehu ,
king of Israel ,
saying , "
Come ,
let us look one another in the face ."
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And Jeho '
ash king of Israel sent word to Amazi '
ah king of Judah , "
A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon ,
saying , `
Give your daughter to my son for a wife ';
and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle .
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You have indeed smitten 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 ?"
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But Amazi '
ah would not listen .
So Jeho '
ash king of Israel went up ,
and he and Amazi '
ah king of Judah faced one another in battle at Beth-she '
mesh ,
which belongs to Judah .
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And Judah was defeated by Israel ,
and every man fled to his home .
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And Jeho '
ash king of Israel captured Amazi '
ah king of Judah ,
the son of Jeho '
ash ,
son of Ahazi '
ah ,
at Beth-she '
mesh ,
and came to Jerusalem ,
and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for four hundred cubits ,
from the E '
phraim Gate to the Corner Gate .
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And he seized all the gold and silver ,
and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king '
s house ,
also hostages ,
and he returned to Sama '
ria .
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Now the rest of the acts of Jeho '
ash which he did ,
and his might ,
and how he fought with Amazi '
ah king of Judah ,
are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel ?
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And Jeho '
ash slept with his fathers ,
and was buried in Sama '
ria with the kings of Israel ;
and Jerobo '
am his son reigned in his stead .
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Amazi '
ah the son of Jo '
ash ,
king of Judah ,
lived fifteen years after the death of Jeho '
ash son of Jeho '
ahaz ,
king of Israel .
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Now the rest of the deeds of Amazi '
ah ,
are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah ?
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And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem ,
and he fled to Lachish .
But they sent after him to Lachish ,
and slew him there .
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And they brought him upon horses ;
and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David .
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And all the people of Judah took Azari '
ah ,
who was sixteen years old ,
and made him king instead of his father Amazi '
ah .
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He built Elath and restored it to Judah ,
after the king slept with his fathers .
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In the fifteenth year of Amazi '
ah the son of Jo '
ash ,
king of Judah ,
Jerobo '
am the son of Jo '
ash ,
king of Israel ,
began to reign in Sama '
ria ,
and he reigned forty-one years .
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And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD ;
he did not depart from all the sins of Jerobo '
am the son of Nebat ,
which he made Israel to sin .
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He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah ,
according to the word of the LORD ,
the God of Israel ,
which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amit '
tai ,
the prophet ,
who was from Gath-he '
pher .
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For the LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter ,
for there was none left ,
bond or free ,
and there was none to help Israel .
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But the LORD had not said that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven ,
so he saved them by the hand of Jerobo '
am the son of Jo '
ash .
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Now the rest of the acts of Jerobo '
am ,
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 Chronicles of the Kings of Israel ?
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And Jerobo '
am slept with his fathers ,
the kings of Israel ,
and Zechari '
ah his son reigned in his stead .
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In the twenty-seventh year of Jerobo '
am king of Israel Azari '
ah the son of Amazi '
ah ,
king of Judah ,
began to reign .
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