Amaziah Wants to Meet Face to Face with Jehoash |
2 Kings 14:1-29 2 Kings [in Smaller Chunks] |
In the 2nd year [Jehoash, Jehoahaz'] son, king of Israel [ruled,] [Amaziah, Joash's] son, king of Judah [ruled]. [Amaziah] was 25 years old when he began to [rule & ruled] 29 years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. |
[Amaziah] did [what] was right in the sight of the Lord, [but] not like David, his [forefather]. [Amaziah,] did according to all the things his father, Joash did. [But] the high places weren't taken away & the people [still] sacrificed & burnt incense [to false gods in] the high places. |
As soon as the kingdom was [established] in his hand, [Amaziah killed] his servants [who killed] his father, the king. |
According to [what] is written in the Law of Moses, [Amaziah didn't kill] the children of the murderers, [where] the Lord commanded, saying, The fathers shouldn't be put to death for the [sins of] the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers. But every man shall be put to death for his own sin. |
[Amaziah killed] 10,000 of Edom in the Valley of the Salt Sea & [captured] Selah [in battle] & called [its] name Joktheel, [until] this day. Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, [Jeoahaz'] son, [who] was the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face. |
Jehoash sent [back] to Amaziah, [Judah's] king, saying, The thistle in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son [to marry]. A wild [animal] in Lebanon passed by & [trampled] the thistle down. |
[You have ] indeed [defeated] Edom & your heart is lifted up [for] the glory of this. [Stay] at home: for why should you meddle to [your own harm] & [your] and all of [Judah's downfall]. But Amaziah wouldn't [listen]. |
Therefore, Jehoash, [Israel's] king, went up & he & Amaziah, [Judah's] king, looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah. Judah was [defeated by] Israel & every man fled to their tents. |
Jehoash, [Israel's] king, [captured Amaziah, Judah's] king, [who was] the son of Jehoash, [that] was the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh & came to Jerusalem & [broke] down [Jerusalem's] wall from [Ephraim']s gate to the Corner Gate, [about] 400 cubits [long]. |
[Jehoash captured] all the gold & silver & all the vessels found in the [Lord's] house & the treasures of the king's house, [with] hostages & returned to Samaria. |
Now, [aren't] the rest of the [actions] of Jehoash, [that] he did & his [strength] & how he fought with Amaziah, [Judah's] king, written in the Book of Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? |
Jehoash [died] & slept with his [forefathers] & was buried in Samaria. Jeroboam, his son, [ruled] in his [place]. And Amaziah, [Joash's] son, [Judah's] king, lived 15 years after the death of Jehoash, [Jehoahaz'] son, [Israel's] king. |
[Aren't] the rest of the [actions] of Amaziah, written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? Now, they made a conspiracy against [Amaziah] in Jerusalem & he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him & [killed] him in Lachish. |
They brought [his body] on horses & buried him in Jerusalem with his [forefathers] in the city of David. All the people of Judah took Azariah, [a.k.a. Uzziah, who] was 16 years old & made him king instead of his father Amaziah. |
[Azariah rebuilt] Elath & [it was returned] to Judah, after [king Amaziah died] & slept with his [forefathers]. In the 15th year [of] Amaziah, [Joash's] son, [Judah's] king, Jeroboam, [Jehoash's] son, began to [rule] in Samaria & [ruled] 41 years. |
[Jeroboam] did [what] was evil in the sight of the Lord. He didn't depart from all the sins of [a different] Jeroboam, [Nebat's] son, who made Israel to sin [by worshiping the 2 gold calves, that Jeroboam, Nebat's son, made, so the Israelites wouldn't go down to offer sacrifices to the Lord God in Jerusalem]. |
Jeroboam, [Jehoash's] son, restored the [coastal boundaries] of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the [Dead] Sea, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, when He spoke by His servant, Jonah, [Amittai's] son, the prophet, [from] Gath Hepher. |
For the Lord [God] saw the affliction of Israel was very [severe:] for there weren't any [imprisoned,] nor any left, nor any [to help rescue] Israel. And the Lord said that He wouldn't blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but the [Lord God] saved them by the hand of Jeroboam, [Joash's] son. |
Now, [aren't] the rest of the [actions] of Jeroboam & all he did, his [strength,] how he [battled] & how he recovered Damascus & Hamath [for Israel, that had] belonged to Judah, written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? And Jeroboam [died] & slept with his [forefathers], even with the kings of Israel & Zachariah, his son, [ruled] in his [place]. |