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    2 Kings 14

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    Amaziah asks Jehoash to meet face to face, and receives a meeting rather more face-to-wall: he is captured, Jerusalem is breached, and the temple and palace treasures go home to Samaria.

    Amaziah takes Sela, but not vengeance on a familyvv. 1–7

    Amaziah becomes king of Judah in Jerusalem and does what is right, though the high places remain busy with sacrifice and incense. Once his kingdom is secure, he executes his father’s murderers but spares their children, keeping each generation from paying for another’s sin. Then he defeats Edom, kills ten thousand in the Valley of Salt, and takes Sela, giving it the new name Joktheel—a remarkably confident bit of renaming.

    The thistle meets the cedarvv. 8–16

    Amaziah sends for Jehoash with the brisk invitation, “Come, let us meet face to face.” Jehoash replies with a little woodland drama: a thistle proposes a marriage alliance to a cedar, only for a wild beast to trample the thistle before the family arrangements can advance. Amaziah does not listen, so the kings meet at Beth-shemesh; Judah flees, Amaziah is captured, and Jehoash proceeds to Jerusalem. There he breaks down four hundred cubits of wall between the Ephraim Gate and the Corner Gate, takes the treasures of the temple and palace, and returns to Samaria with hostages. The face-to-face meeting has, one might say, acquired architecture.

    Two kings leave the stagevv. 17–29

    Jehoash dies, and Jeroboam succeeds him in Samaria. Amaziah survives Jehoash by fifteen years, but conspirators drive him to Lachish, where he is killed; his body is carried back to Jerusalem on horses and buried with his fathers. The people then make his sixteen-year-old son Azariah king, and Azariah restores Elath to Judah. In Israel, Jeroboam is condemned for doing evil and continuing the sins of the earlier Jeroboam, yet the LORD saves Israel through him because its affliction is bitter and there is no one to help. Jeroboam dies, and Zechariah reigns in his place—a chapter with an impressive talent for making royal succession sound like a revolving door.

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    1. 2 Kgs 14:1In the second year of the reign of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz over Israel, Amaziah son of Joash became king of Judah.

    2. 2 Kgs 14:2He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem.

    3. 2 Kgs 14:3And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father David had done. He did everything as his father Joash had done.

    4. 2 Kgs 14:4Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

    5. 2 Kgs 14:5As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah executed the servants who had murdered his father the king.

    6. 2 Kgs 14:6Yet he did not put the sons of the murderers to death, but acted according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.”

    7. 2 Kgs 14:7Amaziah struck down 10,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. He took Sela in battle and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this very day.

    8. 2 Kgs 14:8Then Amaziah sent messengers to the king of Israel Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu. “Come, let us meet face to face,” he said.

    9. 2 Kgs 14:9But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle.

    10. 2 Kgs 14:10You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has become proud. Glory in that and stay at home. Why should you stir up trouble so that you fall—you and Judah with you?”

    11. 2 Kgs 14:11But Amaziah would not listen, so Jehoash king of Israel advanced. He and King Amaziah of Judah faced each other at Beth-shemesh in Judah.

    12. 2 Kgs 14:12And Judah was routed before Israel, and every man fled to his home.

    13. 2 Kgs 14:13There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah. Then Jehoash went to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.

    14. 2 Kgs 14:14He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace, as well as some hostages. Then he returned to Samaria.

    15. 2 Kgs 14:15As for the rest of the acts of Jehoash, along with his accomplishments, his might, and how he waged war against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

    16. 2 Kgs 14:16And Jehoash rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. And his son Jeroboam reigned in his place.

    17. 2 Kgs 14:17Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.

    18. 2 Kgs 14:18As for the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

    19. 2 Kgs 14:19And conspirators plotted against Amaziah in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But men were sent after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.

    20. 2 Kgs 14:20They carried him back on horses and buried him in Jerusalem with his fathers in the City of David.

    21. 2 Kgs 14:21Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

    22. 2 Kgs 14:22Azariah was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah rested with his fathers.

    23. 2 Kgs 14:23In the fifteenth year of the reign of Amaziah son of Joash over Judah, Jeroboam son of Jehoash became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria forty-one years.

    24. 2 Kgs 14:24And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and did not turn away from all the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.

    25. 2 Kgs 14:25This Jeroboam restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word that the LORD, the God of Israel, had spoken through His servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.

    26. 2 Kgs 14:26For the LORD saw that the affliction of the Israelites, both slave and free, was very bitter. There was no one to help Israel,

    27. 2 Kgs 14:27and since the LORD had said that He would not blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash.

    28. 2 Kgs 14:28As for the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, along with all his accomplishments and might, and how he waged war and recovered both Damascus and Hamath for Israel from Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

    29. 2 Kgs 14:29And Jeroboam rested with his fathers, the kings of Israel. And his son Zechariah reigned in his place.

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    • 6Deuteronomy 24:16Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.
    • 6Ezekiel 18:20The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him.
    • 6Ezekiel 18:4Behold, every soul belongs to Me; both father and son are Mine. The soul who sins is the one who will die.
    • 6Jeremiah 31:30Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.
    • 222 Kings 16:6At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram, drove out the men of Judah, and sent the Edomites into Elath, where they live to this day.
    • 26Deuteronomy 32:36For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.
    • 272 Kings 13:23But the LORD was gracious to Israel and had compassion on them, and He turned toward them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And to this day, the LORD has been unwilling to destroy them or cast them from His presence.
    • 42 Kings 12:3Nevertheless, the high places were not removed; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.
    • 72 Samuel 8:13And David made a name for himself when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
    • 9Judges 9:8–15One day the trees set out to anoint a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’
    • 10Deuteronomy 8:14then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
    • 102 Chronicles 26:16But when Uzziah became powerful, his arrogance led to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.
    • 13Nehemiah 8:16And the people went out, brought back branches, and made booths on their own rooftops, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God, and in the squares by the Water Gate and by the Gate of Ephraim.
    • 221 Kings 9:26King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.
    • 25Deuteronomy 3:17The Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.
    • 281 Kings 11:24and had gathered men to himself. When David killed the Zobaites, Rezon captained a band of raiders and went to Damascus, where they settled and gained control.

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