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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 .