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In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel began Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah 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 :
and his mother '
s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem .
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He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh ,
yet not like David his father :
he did according to all that Joash his father had done .
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However the high places were not taken away :
the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places .
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It happened ,
as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand ,
that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father :
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but the children of the murderers he didn '
t put to death ;
according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses ,
as Yahweh commanded ,
saying , "
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children ,
nor the children be put to death for the fathers ;
but every man shall die for his own sin ."
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He killed of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand ,
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 son of Jehu ,
king of Israel ,
saying , "
Come ,
let us look one another in the face ."
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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 your daughter to my son as wife .
Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by ,
and trampled down the thistle .
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You have indeed struck Edom ,
and your heart has lifted you up .
Enjoy the glory of it ,
and stay at home ;
for why should you meddle to your harm ,
that you should fall ,
even you ,
and Judah with you ?'"
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But Amaziah would not listen .
So Jehoash king of Israel went up ;
and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh ,
which belongs to Judah .
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Judah was defeated by Israel ;
and they fled every man to his tent .
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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 cubits .
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He took all the gold and silver ,
and all the vessels that were found in the house of Yahweh ,
and in the treasures of the king '
s house ,
the hostages also ,
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 ,
aren '
t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel ?
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Jehoash slept with his fathers ,
and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel ;
and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place .
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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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Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah ,
aren '
t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah ?
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They made 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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They brought him on horses ;
and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David .
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All the people of Judah took Azariah ,
who was sixteen years old ,
and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah .
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He built Elath ,
and restored it to Judah ,
after that the king slept with his fathers .