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In the second year of Joash the son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah began to reign: |
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He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name is Jehoaddan, from Jerusalem. |
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And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, though not as David his father: he did according to all things as his father Joash. |
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Only the heights were not abolished: the people still made sacrifices and smoking on the heights. |
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When the kingdom was established in his hands, then he slew his servants, who killed the king, his father. |
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But he did not kill the children of the murderers, for it is written in the book of the law of Moses, in which the Lord commanded, saying: "Fathers should not be punished for their children by death, and children should not be punished by death for fathers, but everyone for his crime must be punished by death '. |
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He smote ten thousand Edomites in the valley of Salt, and took Sela in battle, and gave her the name of Jokfel, which remains to this day.
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Then Amaziah sent messengers to Joash, the king of Israel, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, saying: Come out, see us personally. |
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And Joash the king of Israel sent unto Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thorn that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar which is in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son's wife. But the wild doors that passed in Lebanon passed, and trampled on this thorn. |
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You smote Edom, and your heart was lifted up. Be exalted and sit at home. Why should you start a fight for your misfortune? You will fall, and Judas with you. |
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But did not obey Amaziah. And Joash the king of Israel spoke, and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, saw him in Bethshemesh, which is in Judah. |
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And the Jews were defeated by Israel, and they scattered over their tents. |
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And Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of Ahaziah, was captured by Joash, the king of Israel, in Bethshemesh, and went to Jerusalem, and destroyed the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the gate of coal, four hundred cubits. |
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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 treasuries of the royal house, and the hostages, and returned to Samaria.
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The rest of the acts of Joash that he did, and his courageous exploits, and how he fought against Amaziah, king of Judah, is written in the chronicles of the kings of Israel. |
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And Joash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. And Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead. |
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And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash the son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. |
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The other works of Amaziah are recorded in the annals of the kings of Judah. |
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And they conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. And they sent for him to Lachish, and slew him there. |
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And they brought him on horses, and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David. |
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And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah. |
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He built Elath, and brought him back to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.
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In the fifteenth year of Amaziah, the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam reigned in the land of Samaria, the son of Joash king of Israel, and reigned forty and one years, |
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And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. |
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He restored the borders of Israel, from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the wilderness, according to the word of the Lord the God of Israel, which He spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amathi, the prophet of Gafheber, |
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For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, very bitter, so that there remained no prisoner left, and no one left, and Israel had no helper. |
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And the Lord did not desire to root out the name of Israel from under heaven, and saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash. |
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Other things about Jeroboam and all that he did, and his courageous exploits, how he fought and how Israel and Damascus and Hamath, who belonged to Judah, were returned to Israel, is written in the annals of the kings of Israel. |
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And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, with the kings of Israel. And Zechariah his son reigned in his stead. |
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