2 Kings 14

1In the second year of Joash, son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah began to reign.Cross-references: 2Ki 13:10 · 2Ki 14:15 · 1Chr 3:12 · 2Chr 25:1

2He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.

3He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, yet not like David his father. He did according to all that Joash his father had done.Cross-references: 1Ki 11:4 · 1Ki 15:3 · 2Ki 12:2 · 2Chr 24:2 · 2Chr 24:17 · 2Chr 25:2 · +4 more

4However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.Cross-references: 2Ki 12:3 · 2Ki 15:4 · 2Ki 15:35 · 2Ki 16:4

5As soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, he killed his servants who had slain the king his father,Cross-references: Gen 9:6 · Ex 21:12 · Num 35:33 · 2Ki 12:20 · 2Chr 25:3

6but 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.”Cross-references: Deut 24:16 · Jer 31:30 · Ezek 18:4 · Ezek 18:20

7He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.Cross-references: Josh 15:38 · 2Sam 8:13 · 2Ki 8:20 · 1Chr 18:12 · 2Chr 25:11 · Ps 60:1 · +1 more

8Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let’s look one another in the face.”Cross-references: 2Sam 2:14 · 2Ki 14:11 · 2Chr 25:17 · Prov 13:10 · Prov 17:14 · Prov 18:6 · +2 more

9Jehoash 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.Cross-references: Judg 9:8 · 1Sam 13:6 · 2Sam 12:1 · 1Ki 4:33 · 2Chr 25:10 · 2Chr 25:18 · +7 more

10You 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 fall, even you, and Judah with you?”Cross-references: Ex 8:9 · Deut 8:14 · 2Ki 14:7 · 2Chr 26:16 · 2Chr 32:25 · 2Chr 35:21 · +16 more

11But 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.Cross-references: Josh 15:10 · Josh 19:38 · Josh 21:16 · 1Sam 6:9 · 2Chr 25:16 · 2Chr 25:20

12Judah was defeated by Israel; and each man fled to his tent.Cross-references: 1Sam 4:10 · 2Sam 18:17 · 1Ki 22:36

13Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh and came to Jerusalem, then broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.Cross-references: 2Ki 25:6 · 2Chr 25:23 · 2Chr 33:11 · 2Chr 36:6 · 2Chr 36:10 · Neh 8:16 · +9 more

14He took all the gold and silver and all the vessels that were found in Yahweh’s house and in the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.Cross-references: 1Ki 7:51 · 1Ki 14:26 · 1Ki 15:18 · 2Ki 12:18 · 2Ki 18:23 · 2Ki 24:13 · +1 more

15Now 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?Cross-references: 1Ki 14:19 · 2Ki 10:34 · 2Ki 13:12

16Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.Cross-references: 2Sam 7:12 · 1Ki 1:21 · 2Ki 13:9 · 2Ki 13:13 · Hos 1:1 · Amos 1:1 · +1 more

17Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, fifteen years.Cross-references: 2Ki 13:10 · 2Ki 14:1 · 2Ki 14:23 · 2Chr 25:25

18Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?Cross-references: 1Ki 11:41 · 1Ki 14:29 · 2Ki 13:8 · 2Ki 13:12

19They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there.Cross-references: Josh 10:3 · Josh 10:31 · 2Ki 12:20 · 2Ki 15:10 · 2Ki 15:14 · 2Ki 15:25 · +6 more

20They brought him on horses, and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in David’s city.Cross-references: 1Ki 2:10 · 1Ki 11:43 · 2Ki 8:24 · 2Ki 9:28 · 2Ki 12:21 · 2Chr 21:20 · +2 more

21All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.Cross-references: 2Ki 15:13 · 2Ki 21:24 · 1Chr 3:12 · 2Chr 26:1 · Matt 1:8

22He built Elath and restored it to Judah. After that the king slept with his fathers.Cross-references: Deut 2:8 · 1Ki 9:26 · 2Ki 16:6 · 2Chr 8:17 · 2Chr 26:2

23In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria for forty-one years.Cross-references: 2Ki 14:27 · Hos 1:1 · Amos 1:1 · Amos 7:9

24He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.Cross-references: Gen 38:7 · Deut 9:18 · 1Ki 12:28 · 1Ki 21:25 · 2Ki 13:2 · 2Ki 13:6 · +3 more

25He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to Yahweh, the God of Israel’s word, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath Hepher.Cross-references: Gen 14:3 · Num 13:21 · Num 34:7 · Deut 3:17 · Josh 19:13 · 1Ki 8:65 · +7 more

26For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter for all, slave and free; and there was no helper for Israel.Cross-references: Ex 3:7 · Ex 3:9 · Deut 32:36 · Judg 10:16 · 1Ki 14:10 · 1Ki 21:21 · +3 more

27Yahweh didn’t say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.Cross-references: Ex 32:32 · Deut 9:14 · Deut 25:19 · Deut 29:20 · 2Ki 5:1 · 2Ki 13:5 · +6 more

28Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, for Israel, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?Cross-references: 2Sam 8:6 · 1Ki 11:24 · 1Chr 18:5 · 2Chr 8:3

29Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son reigned in his place.Cross-references: 2Ki 15:8