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2 Kings 14 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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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, became king of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:2 - He was twenty-five years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:3 - He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, though not like David his father; he did as Joash his father had done.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:4 - But still the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:5 - Now when he became strong in the kingdom, straight away he put to death those servants who had taken the life of the king his father;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:6 - But he did not put their children to death; for the orders of the Lord recorded in the book of the law of Moses say, The fathers are not to be put to death for the children, or the children for their fathers; but a man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:7 - He put to the sword twelve thousand men of Edom in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela in war, naming it Joktheel, as it is to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:8 - Then Amaziah sent representatives to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us have a meeting face to face.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:9 - And Jehoash, king of Israel, sent to Amaziah, king of Judah, saying, The thorn-tree in Lebanon sent to the cedar in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son for a wife: and a beast from the woodland in Lebanon went by, crushing the thorn under his feet.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:10 - It is true that you have overcome Edom and your heart is uplifted; let that glory be enough for you, and keep in your country; why do you make causes of trouble, putting yourself, and Judah with you, in danger of downfall?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:11 - But Amaziah gave no attention. So Jehoash, king of Israel, went up, and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, came face to face at Beth-shemesh, which is in Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:12 - And Judah was overcome before Israel, so that they went in flight, every man to his tent.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:13 - And Jehoash, king of Israel, made Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah, prisoner at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and had the wall of Jerusalem pulled down from the doorway of Ephraim to the door in the angle, four hundred cubits.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:14 - And he took all the gold and silver and all the vessels which were in the house of the Lord and in the store-house of the king, together with those whose lives would be the price of broken faith, and went back to Samaria.

Jeroboam II Succeeds Jehoash in Israel

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:15 - Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash, and his power, and how he went to war with Amaziah, king of Judah, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:16 - And Jehoash went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son became king in his place.

Azariah (Uzziah) Succeeds Amaziah in Judah

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:17 - Amaziah, the son of Joash, king of Judah, went on living for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:18 - And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:19 - Now they made a secret design against him in Jerusalem; and he went in flight to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:20 - And they took his body on horseback and put it into the earth with his fathers in Jerusalem, the town of David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:21 - Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:22 - He was the builder of Elath, which he got back for Judah after the death of the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:23 - In the fifteenth year of the rule of Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel, became king in Samaria, ruling for forty-one years.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:24 - He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning away from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:25 - He got back the old limits of Israel from the way into Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, as the Lord had said by his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet of Gath-hepher.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:26 - For the Lord saw how bitter was the trouble of Israel, and that everyone was cut off, he who was shut up and he who went free, and that Israel had no helper.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:27 - And the Lord had not said that the name of Israel was to be taken away from the earth; but he gave them a saviour in Jeroboam, the son of Joash.

Zechariah Reigns over Israel

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:28 - Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all he did, and his power, and how he went to war with Damascus, causing the wrath of the Lord to be turned away from Israel, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:29 - And Jeroboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son became king in his place.
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