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2 Kings 14 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Amaziah Reigns over Judah

(2Ch 25:1—26:2 )
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:1 -

In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah became king.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:2 - He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:3 - And he did what was right in the sight of Yahweh, yet not like David his father; he did according to all that Joash his father had done.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:4 - Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:5 - Now it happened as soon as the kingdom was strong in his hand, that he struck down his servants who had struck down the king his father.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:6 - But the sons of those who struck him down he did not put to death, according to what is written in the book of the Law of Moses, which Yahweh commanded, saying, “Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor sons be put to death for their fathers; but each shall be put to death for his own sin.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:7 -

He struck down 10,000 of Edom in the Valley of Salt and seized Sela by war and named it Joktheel to this day.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:8 -

Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us face each other.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:9 - And Jehoash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thorn bush which was in Lebanon sent to the cedar which was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ But a beast of the field that was in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thorn bush.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:10 - “You have indeed struck down Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy your glory and stay at home; for why should you provoke calamity so that you, even you, would fall, and Judah with you?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:11 -

But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:12 - And Judah was [fn]defeated by Israel, and they fled each to his tent.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:13 - Then Jehoash king of Israel seized 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, [fn]400 cubits.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:14 - And he took all the gold and silver and all the utensils which were found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasuries of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:15 -

Now 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 Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:16 - So Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:17 -

And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:18 - Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:19 - And they conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:20 - Then they carried him on horses, and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:21 - And all the people of Judah took [fn]Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:22 - He built Elath and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his fathers.

Jeroboam II Reigns over Israel

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:23 -

In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:24 - And he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh; he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel sin.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:25 - He restored the border of Israel from [fn]Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh, the God of Israel, which He spoke [fn]through His servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath-hepher.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:26 - For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, which was very bitter; for there was neither bond nor free, nor was there any helper for Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:27 - But Yahweh did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, so He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

Zechariah Reigns over Israel

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:28 -

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did and his might, how he fought and how he restored Damascus and Hamath to Judah in Israel, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:29 - And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel, and Zechariah his son became king in his place.
LSB Footnotes
Lit smitten before
Approx. 600 ft. or 183 m, a cubit was approx. 18 in. or 45 cm
In 2 Chr 26:1, Uzziah
Or the entrance of Hamath
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