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In the second year of Joash ,
son of Jehoahaz ,
king of Israel ,
Amaziah ,
the son of Joash ,
king of Judah ,
began to reign .
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He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign and reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem .
And his mother '
s name [
was ]
Jehoaddan of Jerusalem .
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And he did [
that which was ]
right in the sight of the LORD ,
yet not like David his father ;
he did according to all things as Joash his father did .
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With all this ,
the high places were not taken away ;
as yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places .
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And as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand ,
he slew his servants which had slain the king ,
his father .
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But the sons of those who had slain him he slew not ;
according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses where the LORD commanded ,
saying ,
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children ,
nor the children be put to death for the fathers ;
but each one shall die for their own sin .
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He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand and took Selah by war and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day .
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Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash ,
the son of Jehoahaz ,
son of Jehu ,
king of Israel ,
saying ,
Come ,
let us look each other in the face .
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And Jehoash ,
the king of Israel ,
sent to Amaziah ,
king of Judah ,
this reply ,
The thistle that [
was ]
in Lebanon sent to the cedar that [
was ]
in Lebanon ,
saying ,
Give thy daughter to my son to wife .
And the wild beasts that [
were ]
in Lebanon passed by and trode down the thistle .
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Thou hast indeed smitten Edom ,
and thy heart has lifted thee up ;
glory [
in this ],
but tarry at home .
Why should thou meddle in evil that thou should fall , [
even ]
thou ,
and Judah with thee ?
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But Amaziah would not hear .
Therefore Jehoash ,
king of Israel ,
went up ;
and he and Amaziah ,
king of Judah ,
looked each other in the face at Bethshemesh ,
which [
is ]
in Judah .
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But Judah fell before Israel ,
and they fled each man to their tents .
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Furthermore ,
Jehoash ,
king of Israel ,
took Amaziah ,
king of Judah ,
the son of Jehoash ,
the son of Ahaziah ,
at Bethshemesh and came to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate ,
four hundred cubits .
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And he took all the gold and silver and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD and in the treasury of the king '
s house and the sons as hostages and returned to Samaria .
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Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash ,
which 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 ?
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And Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel ;
and Jeroboam ,
his son ,
reigned in his stead .
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And Amaziah ,
the son of Joash ,
king of Judah ,
lived after the death of Jehoash ,
son of Jehoahaz ,
king of Israel ,
fifteen years .
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And 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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Now 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 on horses ,
and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David .
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Then 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 slept with his fathers .