{"id":888,"date":"2015-01-10T13:47:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T13:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/?p=888"},"modified":"2020-03-08T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T13:00:08","slug":"2ki14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki14\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Kings 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"main\">\r\n <div class=\"chapterlabel\"><a name=\"V0\"> 14<\/a><\/div><div class=\"p\">\r\n <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V1\">1\u00a0<\/a><\/span>In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V2\">2\u00a0<\/a><\/span>He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother\u2019s name <span class=\"add\">was<\/span> Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V3\">3\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And he did <span class=\"add\">that which was<\/span> right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V4\">4\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V5\">5\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V6\">6\u00a0<\/a><\/span>But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein 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 shall be put to death for his own sin.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V7\">7\u00a0<\/a><\/span>He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V8\">8\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V9\">9\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that <span class=\"add\">was<\/span> in Lebanon sent to the cedar that <span class=\"add\">was<\/span> in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that <span class=\"add\">was<\/span> in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V10\">10\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory <span class=\"add\">of this,<\/span> and tarry at home for why shouldest thou meddle to <span class=\"add\">thy<\/span> hurt, that thou shouldest fall, <span class=\"add\">even<\/span> thou, and Judah with thee?  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V11\">11\u00a0<\/a><\/span>But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which <span class=\"add\">belongeth<\/span> to Judah.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V12\">12\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to their tents.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V13\">13\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V14\">14\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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\u2019s house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V15\">15\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, <span class=\"add\">are<\/span> they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V16\">16\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V17\">17\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V18\">18\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, <span class=\"add\">are<\/span> they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V19\">19\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V20\">20\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V21\">21\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which <span class=\"add\">was<\/span> sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V22\">22\u00a0<\/a><\/span>He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V23\">23\u00a0<\/a><\/span>In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, <span class=\"add\">and reigned<\/span> forty and one years.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V24\">24\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And he did <span class=\"add\">that which was<\/span> evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V25\">25\u00a0<\/a><\/span>He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which <span class=\"add\">was<\/span> of Gath-hepher.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V26\">26\u00a0<\/a><\/span>For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, <span class=\"add\">that it was<\/span> very bitter: for <span class=\"add\">there was<\/span> not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V27\">27\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V28\">28\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, <span class=\"add\">which belonged<\/span> to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V29\">29\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, <span class=\"add\">even<\/span> with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead. <\/div><hr \/><\/div>\r\n\r\n  <div class=\"chapters\">\r\n    <h3>2 Kings Chapters<\/h3>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki01\">1<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki02\">2<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki03\">3<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki04\">4<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki05\">5<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki06\">6<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki07\">7<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki08\">8<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki09\">9<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki10\">10<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki11\">11<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki12\">12<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki13\">13<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki14\">14<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki15\">15<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki16\">16<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki17\">17<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki18\">18<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki19\">19<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki20\">20<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki21\">21<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki22\">22<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki23\">23<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki24\">24<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ki25\">25<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 1\u00a0In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah. 2\u00a0He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother\u2019s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. 3\u00a0And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did. 4\u00a0Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places. 5\u00a0And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father. 6\u00a0But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein 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 shall be put to death for his own sin. 7\u00a0He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day. 8\u00a0Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face. 9\u00a0And 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 thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle. 10\u00a0Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2kings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3798,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/3798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}