SECOND
KINGS
2 Kings Chapter 14
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¶ In the second year of Joash
the son of Jehoahaz the king of
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He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and reigned for
twenty-nine years in
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And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like his
forefather David: he did everything just as Joash his
father had done.
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But the high places were not taken away: and the people were still sacrificing
and burning incense on the high places.
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And as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, he executed the officials
who had murdered his father the king.
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But he did not execute the children of the murderers: in accord with 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 children, nor the
children be put to death for the fathers; but every man will be put to death
for his own sin.
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He killed ten thousand Edomites in the valley of
salt, and took Selah by war, and renamed Joktheel
which it is still called.
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¶ Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash,
the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu,
the king of Israel, saying, Come, let us meet in battle.
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And Jehoash 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 a wife: and a wild beast that was in Lebanon,
passed by and trampled the thistle.
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You have indeed defeated
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But Amaziah would not listen. Therefore Jehoash king of
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And Judah was defeated by Israel; and all the men ran to their homes.
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And Jehoash king of
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And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the
house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king’s palace, and hostages, and
returned to
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¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash
which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah
king of
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And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in
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And Amaziah the son of Joash
king of
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And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they
not written in the book of the records of the kings of
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Now a conspiracy was made against him in
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And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at
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And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was
sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
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He rebuilt Elath, and restored it to
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¶ In the fifteenth year of Amaziah
the son of Joash the king of Judah Jeroboam the son
of Joash the king of
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And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD: he did not depart
from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
made
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He restored the border of
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For the LORD saw that the affliction of
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But the LORD had not said that he would blot the name of
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Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how
he warred, and how he recovered for Israel Damascus, and Hamath,
which belonged to
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And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of