acv 2Kings:14:1-22
acv@2Kings:14:1 @ In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah began to reign.
acv@2Kings:14:2 @ 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 Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.
acv@2Kings:14:3 @ And he did that which was right in the eyes of LORD, yet not like David his father. He did according to all that Joash his father had done.
acv@2Kings:14:4 @ However the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
acv@2Kings:14:5 @ And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father,
acv@2Kings:14:6 @ but he did not put to death the sons of the murderers, according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the sons, nor the sons be put to death
acv@2Kings:14:7 @ He killed ten thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called the name of it Joktheel, to this day.
acv@2Kings:14:8 @ 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.
acv@2Kings:14:9 @ And Jehoash the 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 thy daughter to my son to wife. And a wild beast that was in Lebanon passed b
acv@2Kings:14:10 @ Thou have indeed smitten Edom, and thy heart has lifted thee up. Glory by it, and abide at home, for why should thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou should fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
acv@2Kings:14:11 @ But Amaziah would not hear. So Jehoash king of Israel went up. And he and Amaziah king of Judah looked each other in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
acv@2Kings:14:12 @ And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent.
acv@2Kings:14:13 @ And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the 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 cu
acv@2Kings:14:14 @ And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
acv@2Kings:14:15 @ 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?
acv@2Kings:14:16 @ And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. And Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.
acv@2Kings:14:17 @ And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.
acv@2Kings:14:18 @ Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
acv@2Kings:14:19 @ And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem. And he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.
acv@2Kings:14:20 @ And they brought him upon horses, and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
acv@2Kings:14:21 @ And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
acv@2Kings:14:22 @ He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.
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