2Kings:14-16

mkjv@2Kings:14:1 @ In the second year of Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah reigned.

mkjv@2Kings:14:2 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:14:3 @ And he did the right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father. He did according to all things that Joash his father did.

mkjv@2Kings:14:4 @ Only, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

mkjv@2Kings:14:5 @ And it happened when the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, he killed his servants who had slain his father the king;

mkjv@2Kings:14:6 @ But he did not kill the sons of the servants, according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, in which the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the sons, nor shall the sons be put to death for the fathers, but each shall be put to death for his own sin.

mkjv@2Kings:14:7 @ He killed ten thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel until this day.

mkjv@2Kings:14:8 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:14:9 @ And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle which [was] in Lebanon sent to the cedar in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son for a wife. And a beast of the field in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thistle.

mkjv@2Kings:14:10 @ You have indeed stricken Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Rejoice and stay at home, for why should you meddle to [your] harm, so that you should fall, you and Judah with you?

mkjv@2Kings:14:11 @ But Amaziah would not hear. And Jehoash king of Israel went up. And he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, of Judah.

mkjv@2Kings:14:12 @ And Judah was beaten before Israel. And every man fled to his tent.

mkjv@2Kings:14:13 @ And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and he came to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits.

mkjv@2Kings:14:14 @ And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels which were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.

mkjv@2Kings:14:15 @ And 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 Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel?

mkjv@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 place.

mkjv@2Kings:14:17 @ And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

mkjv@2Kings:14:18 @ And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, [are] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah?

mkjv@2Kings:14:19 @ And they made a plot against him at Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. And they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there.

mkjv@2Kings:14:20 @ And [they] brought him on horses, and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

mkjv@2Kings:14:21 @ And all the people of Judah took Azariah who [was] sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

mkjv@2Kings:14:22 @ He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.

mkjv@2Kings:14:23 @ In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Jehoash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, forty-one years.

mkjv@2Kings:14:24 @ And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin.

mkjv@2Kings:14:25 @ He restored the border of Israel from the entering of Hamath to the sea of the plain, according to the word of Jehovah God of Israel which He spoke by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, who [was] from Gath-hepher.

mkjv@2Kings:14:26 @ For the LORD had seen the affliction of Israel [to be] very bitter. And one was bound, and none [was] free, and there was no helper for Israel.

mkjv@2Kings:14:27 @ And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Jehoash.

mkjv@2Kings:14:28 @ And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus and Hamath, of Judah, for Israel, [are] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel?

mkjv@2Kings:14:29 @ And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, with the kings of Israel. And his son Zachariah reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:15:1 @ In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.

mkjv@2Kings:15:2 @ He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Jecholiah of Jerusalem.

mkjv@2Kings:15:3 @ And he did the right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

mkjv@2Kings:15:4 @ Only, the high places were not removed. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

mkjv@2Kings:15:5 @ And the LORD struck the king, so that he was a leper until the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. And the king's son, Jotham, [was] over the house, judging the people of the land.

mkjv@2Kings:15:6 @ And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah?

mkjv@2Kings:15:7 @ And Azariah slept with his fathers. And they buried him with his fathers in the city of David. And his son Jotham reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:15:8 @ In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria, six months.

mkjv@2Kings:15:9 @ And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

mkjv@2Kings:15:10 @ And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him. And he struck him before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:15:11 @ And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they [are] written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel.

mkjv@2Kings:15:12 @ This [was] the word of the LORD which He spoke to Jehu, saying, Your sons shall sit on the throne of Israel until the fourth [generation]. And it was so.

mkjv@2Kings:15:13 @ Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah. And he reigned in Samaria a full month.

mkjv@2Kings:15:14 @ For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria and struck Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria. And he killed him and reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:15:15 @ And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and the conspiracy which he made, behold, they [are] written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel.

mkjv@2Kings:15:16 @ Then Menahem struck Tiphsah, and all in it, and its borders, from Tirzah. Because they did not open, he struck it. He ripped up all its pregnant women.

mkjv@2Kings:15:17 @ In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel, ten years in Samaria.

mkjv@2Kings:15:18 @ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, all his days.

mkjv@2Kings:15:19 @ Pul, the king of Assyria came against the land. And Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver so that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

mkjv@2Kings:15:20 @ And Menahem took the silver from Israel, from all the mighty men of wealth (fifty shekels of silver from each man) to give to the king of Assyria. And the king of Assyria turned back and did not stay there in the land.

mkjv@2Kings:15:21 @ And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel?

mkjv@2Kings:15:22 @ And Menahem slept with his fathers. And Pekahiah his son reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:15:23 @ In the fiftieth year of Uzziah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, two years.

mkjv@2Kings:15:24 @ And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

mkjv@2Kings:15:25 @ But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a commander of his, conspired against him and struck him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and fifty men of the Gileadites with him. And he killed him and reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:15:26 @ And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they [are] written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel.

mkjv@2Kings:15:27 @ In the fifty-second year of Uzziah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, twenty years.

mkjv@2Kings:15:28 @ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

mkjv@2Kings:15:29 @ In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he deported them to Assyria.

mkjv@2Kings:15:30 @ And Hoshea the son of Elah made a plot against Pekah the son of Remaliah. And he struck him and killed him and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

mkjv@2Kings:15:31 @ And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they [are] written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel.

mkjv@2Kings:15:32 @ In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, began to reign.

mkjv@2Kings:15:33 @ He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

mkjv@2Kings:15:34 @ And he did right in the sight of the LORD. He did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

mkjv@2Kings:15:35 @ Only, the high places were not removed. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD.

mkjv@2Kings:15:36 @ And the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah?

mkjv@2Kings:15:37 @ In those days the LORD began to send Rezin the king of Syria against Judah, and also Pekah the son of Remaliah.

mkjv@2Kings:15:38 @ And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father.

mkjv@2Kings:15:39 @ And his son Ahaz reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:16:1 @ In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

mkjv@2Kings:16:2 @ Ahaz [was] twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.

mkjv@2Kings:16:3 @ But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. Yes, and he made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD cast out from before the sons of Israel.

mkjv@2Kings:16:4 @ And he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

mkjv@2Kings:16:5 @ Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem for war. And they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome [him].

mkjv@2Kings:16:6 @ At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath. And the Syrians came to Elath and lived there until this day.

mkjv@2Kings:16:7 @ And Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, I [am] your servant and your son. Come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.

mkjv@2Kings:16:8 @ And Ahaz took the silver and gold which was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent a present to the king of Assyria.

mkjv@2Kings:16:9 @ And the king of Assyria listened to him, for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus and took it. And he carried it away captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.

mkjv@2Kings:16:10 @ And King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria [at] Damascus. And [he] saw an altar at Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the pattern of the altar, and the form of it, according to all its work.

mkjv@2Kings:16:11 @ And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. So Urijah the priest did until King Ahaz came in from Damascus.

mkjv@2Kings:16:12 @ And the king came in from Damascus, and the king saw the altar. And the king approached to the altar and offered on it.

mkjv@2Kings:16:13 @ And he offered his burnt offering and his food offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, on the altar.

mkjv@2Kings:16:14 @ And he also brought the bronze altar which [was] before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.

mkjv@2Kings:16:15 @ And King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, On the great altar burn the morning offering and the evening food offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice and his food offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their food offerings, and their drink offerings. And sprinkle all the blood of the burnt offerings on it, and all the blood of the sacrifice. And the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.

mkjv@2Kings:16:16 @ And Urijah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded.

mkjv@2Kings:16:17 @ And King Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from them. And he took down the sea from off the bronze oxen under it, and put it on a pavement of stones.

mkjv@2Kings:16:18 @ And the covered way for the sabbath which they had built in the house, and the king's entry outside, he turned from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.

mkjv@2Kings:16:19 @ And the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, [are] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah?

mkjv@2Kings:16:20 @ And Ahaz slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:17:1 @ In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, nine years.

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