‏ 2 Kings 14

CHAPTER 14

Amaziah Reigns in Judah

1In [²year ¹the second] of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel,   [⁶reigned ¹Amaziah ²son ³of Joash ⁴king ⁵of Judah]. 2[²a son ³being twenty ⁴and ⁵five ⁶years old  ¹He was] in   his reigning. And twenty and nine years he reigned in Jerusalem. And the name   of his mother was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. 3And he did   upright in the eyes of the lord, only not as David   his father. According to all as much as [³did ¹Joash   ²his father] he did. 4Only the high places  he did not remove, and still the people sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. 5And it came to pass when [³grew strong ¹the ²kingdom] in his hand, that he struck   his servants, the ones striking   his father. 6And the sons of the ones striking he did not put to death, as it is written upon the scroll of the law of Moses, as the lord gave charge, saying, [²shall not die ¹Fathers] for the sons, and the sons shall not die for the fathers, but only each for   his sin shall he die. 7He struck   Edom in Gemela -- ten thousand. And he seized   Rock in the war, and he called   its name, Joktheel until   this day. 8Then Amaziah sent messengers to Joash son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu king of Israel, saying, Come, we should see faces. 9And [⁴sent ¹Joash ²king ³of Israel] to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thorn   in   Lebanon sent to the cedar   in   Lebanon, saying, Give   your daughter to  my son for a wife! And [³went through ¹the ²wild beasts] the field   in   Lebanon, and trampled upon the thorn. 10Having beaten you struck   Edom, and [²encouraged you   ¹your heart]. Be glorified sitting down in   your house. And why do you contend in your evil, that you shall fall and Judah with you?

War Between Judah and Israel

11And [²did not ³hearken ¹Amaziah]. And [⁴ascended ¹Joash ²king ³of Israel], and [⁶saw ⁷faces ¹he ²and ³Amaziah ⁴king ⁵of Judah] in Beth-shemesh   of Judea. 12And Judah failed from in front of Israel, and [²fled ¹each man] to   his tent. 13And   [⁵Amaziah ⁶son ⁷of Joash ⁸son ⁹of Ahaziah ¹⁰king ¹¹of Judah ⁴seized ¹Joash ²king ³of Israel] in Beth-shemesh. And he came into Jerusalem and demolished in the wall of Jerusalem at the gate of Ephraim unto the gate of the corner -- four hundred cubits. 14And he took the gold, and the silver, and all the items   being found in the house of the lord, and in the treasuries of the house of the king, and of the sons of the alliances, and he returned unto Samaria. 15And the rest of the words of Joash, as much as he did in his domination in which he waged war with Amaziah king of Judah, are not these written upon the scroll of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

Death of Amaziah

16And Joash slept with   his fathers, and they entombed him  in Samaria with the kings of Israel. And [³reigned ¹Jeroboam ²his son] instead of him. 17And [⁶lived ¹Amaziah ²son ³of Joash ⁴king ⁵of Judah] after the dying   of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. 18And the rest of the words of Amaziah, and all as much as he did, behold are not these written upon the scroll of the words of the days of the kings of Judah? 19And they confederated against him with a confederation in Jerusalem. And he fled unto Lachish. And they sent after him unto Lachish, and put him to death there. 20And they lifted him upon the horses, and he was entombed in Jerusalem with   his fathers in the city of David.

Jeroboam Reigns in Israel

21And [⁵took ¹all ²the ³people ⁴of Judah]   Azariah, and he was  a son sixteen years old, and they gave him reign instead of   his father Amaziah. 22He built   Elath, and returned it    to Judah after   [³slept ¹the ²king] with   his fathers. 23In [²year ¹the fifteenth] of Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah, [⁴reigned ¹Jeroboam ²son ³of Joash] over Israel in Samaria -- forty and one year. 24And he did the wicked thing  before the lord. He did not abstain from all of the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel into sin. 25He restored the boundary of Israel from the entrance of Hamath unto the sea of the Arabah, according to the saying of the lord  God of Israel, who spoke by the hand of his servant Jonah, son of Amittai, the prophet, the one  from out of Gath-hepher. 26For the lord beheld the humiliation   of Israel, [²bitter ¹that it was exceedingly], and very few, and being held together, and being depleted, and being abandoned, and there was no   one helping   Israel. 27And [²did not speak ¹the lord] to wipe away the name   of Israel from beneath   heaven. And he delivered them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Joash. 28And the rest of the words of Jeroboam, and all as much as he did, and   his dominations, as much as he waged war, and as much as he returned   Damascus and   Hamath   to Judah in Israel, behold are not these written upon the scroll of the words of the days of the kings of Israel? 29And Jeroboam slept with   his fathers with the kings of Israel. And [³reigned ¹Zechariah ²his son] instead of him.