¹In the second year of Joash , son of Joahaz , king of Israel , Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah began to reign .

²He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign ; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem . His mother’s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem .

³He did that which was right in the LORD ’s eyes , yet not like David his father. He did according to all that Joash his father had done .

⁴However the high places were not taken away . The people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places .

⁵As soon as the kingdom was established in his hand , he killed his servants who had slain the king his father,

⁶but 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 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 die for his own sin .”

⁷He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt , and took Sela by war , and called its name Joktheel , to this day .

⁸Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash , the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu , king of Israel , saying, “Come , let ’s look one another in the face .”

⁹Jehoash 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 .’ Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by , and trampled down the thistle .

¹⁰You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up . Enjoy the glory of it , and stay at home ; for why should you meddle to your harm , that you fall , even you , and Judah with you ?”

¹¹But Amaziah would not listen . 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 .

¹²Judah was defeated by Israel ; and each man fled to his tent.

¹³Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah , the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh and came to Jerusalem , then broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate , four hundred cubits.[#14:13 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres.]

¹⁴He took all the gold and silver and all the vessels that were found in the LORD ’s house and in the treasures of the king ’s house , the hostages also , and returned to Samaria .

¹⁵Now 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 ?

¹⁶Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel ; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place .

¹⁷Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz , king of Israel , fifteen years .

¹⁸Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah ?

¹⁹They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem , and he fled to Lachish ; but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there .

²⁰They brought him on horses , and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in David ’s city .

²¹All the people of Judah took Azariah , who was sixteen years old , and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.

²²He built Elath and restored it to Judah . After that the king slept with his fathers.

²³In 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 for forty-one years .

²⁴He did that which was evil in the LORD ’s sight . He didn’t depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat , with which he made Israel to sin .

²⁵He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah , according to the LORD , the God of Israel ’s word , which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet , who was from Gath Hepher.

²⁶For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel , that it was very bitter for all , slave and free ; and there was no helper for Israel .

²⁷The LORD 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 .

²⁸Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam , and all that he did , and his might , how he fought , 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 ?

²⁹Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel ; and Zechariah his son reigned in his place .