| 1 | In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel began Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah to reign. | 2Ki 14:15 2Ki 13:10 |
| 2 | He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother`s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem. |
| 3 | He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not like David his father: he did according to all that Joash his father had done. | 2Ki 12:2 1Ki 11:4 1Ki 15:3 2Ch 25:2 2Ch 25:3 |
| 4 | However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. | 2Ki 12:3 2Ki 15:4 2Ki 15:35 |
| 5 | It happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father: | Gn 9:6 Ex 21:12-14 Nm 35:33 |
| 6 | but the children of the murderers he didn`t put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Yahweh 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 die for his own sin. | Dt 24:16 Ezk 18:4 Ezk 18:20 |
| 7 | He killed of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called the name of it Joktheel, to this day. | 2Ki 8:20-22 2Ch 25:11 2Ch 25:12 |
| 8 | 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. | 2Ch 25:17-24 |
| 9 | 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 your daughter to my son as wife: and there passed by a wild animal that was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle. |
| 10 | You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up: glory of it, and abide at home; for why should you meddle to [your] hurt, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you? | Dt 8:14 2Ch 26:16 2Ch 32:25 Pr 16:18 Ezk 38:2 Ezk 38:5 Ezk 38:17 Dn 5:20-23 Hab 2:4 Jm 4:6 |
| 11 | But Amaziah would not hear. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah. | 2Ch 25:16 2Ch 25:20 |
| 12 | Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to his tent. | 1Sa 4:10 2Sa 18:17 1Ki 22:36 |
| 13 | 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 broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits. | 2Ki 25:6 2Ch 33:11 2Ch 36:6 2Ch 36:10 Jb 40:11 Jb 40:12 Pr 16:18 Pr 29:23 Isa 2:11 Isa 2:12 Dn 4:37 Lk 14:11 |
| 14 | He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king`s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria. | 2Ki 24:13 2Ki 25:15 1Ki 7:51 1Ki 14:26 1Ki 15:18 |
| 15 | Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, aren`t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? | 2Ki 10:34 2Ki 10:35 2Ki 13:12 1Ki 14:19 1Ki 14:20 |
| 16 | Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place. | 2Sa 7:12 1Ki 1:21 |
| 17 | Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. | 2Ki 14:1 2Ki 14:2 2Ki 14:23 2Ki 13:10 2Ch 25:25-28 |
| 18 | Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren`t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? | 2Ki 13:8 2Ki 13:12 1Ki 11:41 1Ki 14:29 |
| 19 | They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there. | 2Ki 12:20 2Ki 12:21 2Ki 15:10 2Ki 15:14 2Ki 15:25 2Ki 15:30 2Ki 21:23 2Ch 25:27 2Ch 25:28 |
| 20 | They brought him on horses; and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David. | 2Ki 8:24 2Ki 9:28 2Ki 12:21 1Ki 2:10 1Ki 11:43 2Ch 21:20 2Ch 26:23 2Ch 33:20 |
| 21 | All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. | 2Ki 15:13 2Ch 26:1 |
| 22 | He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. | 2Ki 16:6 Dt 2:8 1Ki 9:26 2Ch 26:2 |
| 23 | 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, [and reigned] forty-one years. | 2Ki 14:27 Hos 1:1 Am 1:1 Am 7:9-11 |
| 24 | He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he didn`t depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. | 2Ki 21:6 Gn 38:7 Dt 9:18 1Ki 21:25 |
| 25 | He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath-hepher. | Nm 13:21 Nm 34:7 Nm 34:8 Ezk 47:16-18 Am 6:14 |
| 26 | For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there any helper for Israel. | 2Ki 13:4 Ex 3:7 Ex 3:9 Jg 10:16 Ps 106:43-45 Isa 63:9 |
| 27 | Yahweh didn`t say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash. | 2Ki 13:23 Hos 1:6 |
| 28 | 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, [which had belonged] to Judah, for Israel, aren`t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? | 2Sa 8:6 1Ki 11:24 1Ch 18:5 1Ch 18:6 2Ch 8:3 2Ch 8:4 |
| 29 | Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son reigned in his place. | 2Ki 15:8 |
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