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2 Kings 14 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Amaziah Reigns over Judah

(2Ch 25:1—26:2 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:1 - In the second year of Jo'ash the son of Jo'ahaz, king of Israel, Amazi'ah the son of Jo'ash, king of Judah, began to reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:2 - He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jeho-ad'din of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:3 - And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, yet not like David his father; he did in all things as Jo'ash his father had done.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:4 - But the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:5 - And as soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand he killed his servants who had slain the king his father.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:6 - But he did not put to death the children of the murderers; according to what is written in the book of the law of Moses, where the LORD commanded, "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, or the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin."

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:7 - He killed ten thousand E'domites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm, and called it Jok'the-el, which is its name to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:8 - Then Amazi'ah sent messengers to Jeho'ash the son of Jeho'ahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us look one another in the face."

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:9 - And Jeho'ash king of Israel sent word to Amazi'ah king of Judah, "A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, 'Give your daughter to my son for a wife'; and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:10 - You have indeed smitten Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory, and stay at home; for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?"

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:11 - But Amazi'ah would not listen. So Jeho'ash king of Israel went up, and he and Amazi'ah king of Judah faced one another in battle at Beth-she'mesh, which belongs to Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:12 - And Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled to his home.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:13 - And Jeho'ash king of Israel captured Amazi'ah king of Judah, the son of Jeho'ash, son of Ahazi'ah, at Beth-she'mesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for four hundred cubits, from the E'phraim Gate to the Corner Gate.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:14 - And he seized all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king's house, also hostages, and he returned to Sama'ria.

Jeroboam II Succeeds Jehoash in Israel

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:15 - Now the rest of the acts of Jeho'ash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amazi'ah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:16 - And Jeho'ash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Sama'ria with the kings of Israel; and Jerobo'am his son reigned in his stead.

Azariah (Uzziah) Succeeds Amaziah in Judah

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:17 - Amazi'ah the son of Jo'ash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Jeho'ash son of Jeho'ahaz, king of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:18 - Now the rest of the deeds of Amazi'ah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:19 - And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:20 - And they brought him upon horses; and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:21 - And all the people of Judah took Azari'ah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amazi'ah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:22 - He built Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:23 - In the fifteenth year of Amazi'ah the son of Jo'ash, king of Judah, Jerobo'am the son of Jo'ash, king of Israel, began to reign in Sama'ria, and he reigned forty-one years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:24 - And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart from all the sins of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:25 - He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amit'tai, the prophet, who was from Gath-he'pher.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:26 - For the LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, for there was none left, bond or free, and there was none to help Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:27 - But the LORD had not said that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, so he saved them by the hand of Jerobo'am the son of Jo'ash.

Zechariah Reigns over Israel

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:28 - Now the rest of the acts of Jerobo'am, and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he recovered for Israel Damascus and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:29 - And Jerobo'am slept with his fathers, the kings of Israel, and Zechari'ah his son reigned in his stead.
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