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In the second[H8147]year[H8141] of Joash[H3101]son[H1121] of Jehoahaz[H3099]king[H4428] of Israel[H3478]reigned[H4427]Amaziah[H558] the son[H1121] of Joash[H3101]king[H4428] of Judah[H3063].
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He was twenty[H6242] and five[H2568]years[H8141]old[H1121] when he began to reign[H4427], and reigned[H4427]twenty[H6242] and nine[H8672]years[H8141] in Jerusalem[H3389]. And his mother's name[H8034] was Jehoaddan[H3086] of Jerusalem[H3389].
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And he did[H6213] that which was right[H3477] in the sight[H5869] of the LORD[H3068], yet[H7535] not like David[H1732] his father[H1]: he did[H6213] according to all things as Joash[H3101] his father[H1]did[H6213].
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Howbeit the high places[H1116] were not taken away[H5493]: as yet[H5750] the people[H5971] did sacrifice[H2076] and burnt incense[H6999] on the high places[H1116].
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And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom[H4467] was confirmed[H2388] in his hand[H3027], that he slew[H5221] his servants[H5650] which had slain[H5221] the king[H4428] his father[H1].
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But the children[H1121] of the murderers[H5221] he slew[H4191] not: according unto that which is written[H3789] in the book[H5612] of the law[H8451] of Moses[H4872], wherein the LORD[H3068]commanded[H6680], saying[H559], The fathers[H1] shall not be put to death[H4191] for the children[H1121], nor the children[H1121] be put to death[H4191] for the fathers[H1]; but every man[H376] shall be put to death[H4191] for his own sin[H2399].
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He slew[H5221] of Edom[H123] in the valley[H1516] of salt[H4417]ten[H6235]thousand[H505], and took[H8610]Selah[H5554] by war[H4421], and called[H7121] the name[H8034] of it Joktheel[H3371] unto this day[H3117].
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Then Amaziah[H558]sent[H7971]messengers[H4397] to Jehoash[H3060], the son[H1121] of Jehoahaz[H3059]son[H1121] of Jehu[H3058], king[H4428] of Israel[H3478], saying[H559], Come[H3212], let us look[H7200] one another in the face[H6440].
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And Jehoash[H3060] the king[H4428] of Israel[H3478]sent[H7971] to Amaziah[H558]king[H4428] of Judah[H3063], saying[H559], The thistle[H2336] that was in Lebanon[H3844]sent[H7971] to the cedar[H730] that was in Lebanon[H3844], saying[H559], Give[H5414] thy daughter[H1323] to my son[H1121] to wife[H802]: and there passed[H5674] by a wild[H7704]beast[H2416] that was in Lebanon[H3844], and trode down[H7429] the thistle[H2336].
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Thou hast indeed[H5221]smitten[H5221]Edom[H123], and thine heart[H3820] hath lifted thee up[H5375]: glory[H3513] of this, and tarry[H3427] at home[H1004]: for why shouldest thou meddle[H1624] to thy hurt[H7451], that thou shouldest fall[H5307], even thou, and Judah[H3063] with thee?
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But Amaziah[H558] would not hear[H8085]. Therefore Jehoash[H3060]king[H4428] of Israel[H3478] went up[H5927]; and he and Amaziah[H558]king[H4428] of Judah[H3063]looked[H7200] one another in the face[H6440] at Bethshemesh[H1053], which belongeth to Judah[H3063].
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And Judah[H3063] was put to the worse[H5062]before[H6440]Israel[H3478]; and they fled[H5127] every man[H376] to their tents[H168].
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And Jehoash[H3060]king[H4428] of Israel[H3478]took[H8610]Amaziah[H558]king[H4428] of Judah[H3063], the son[H1121] of Jehoash[H3060] the son[H1121] of Ahaziah[H274], at Bethshemesh[H1053], and came[H935] to Jerusalem[H3389], and brake down[H6555] the wall[H2346] of Jerusalem[H3389] from the gate[H8179] of Ephraim[H669] unto the corner[H6438]gate[H8179], four[H702]hundred[H3967]cubits[H520].
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And he took[H3947] all the gold[H2091] and silver[H3701], and all the vessels[H3627] that were found[H4672] in the house[H1004] of the LORD[H3068], and in the treasures[H214] of the king's house[H1004], and hostages[H1121], and returned[H7725] to Samaria[H8111].
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Now the rest[H3499] of the acts[H1697] of Jehoash[H3060] which he did[H6213], and his might[H1369], and how he fought[H3898] with Amaziah[H558]king[H4428] of Judah[H3063], are they not written[H3789] in the book[H5612] of the chronicles[H1697] of the kings[H4428] of Israel?[H3478]
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And Jehoash[H3060]slept[H7901] with his fathers[H1], and was buried[H6912] in Samaria[H8111] with the kings[H4428] of Israel[H3478]; and Jeroboam[H3379] his son[H1121]reigned[H4427] in his stead.
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And Amaziah[H558] the son[H1121] of Joash[H3101]king[H4428] of Judah[H3063]lived[H2421]after[H310] the death[H4194] of Jehoash[H3060]son[H1121] of Jehoahaz[H3059]king[H4428] of Israel[H3478]fifteen[H2568]years[H8141].
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And the rest[H3499] of the acts[H1697] of Amaziah[H558], are they not written[H3789] in the book[H5612] of the chronicles[H1697] of the kings[H4428] of Judah?[H3063]
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Now they made[H7194] a conspiracy[H7195] against him in Jerusalem[H3389]: and he fled[H5127] to Lachish[H3923]; but they sent[H7971]after[H310] him to Lachish[H3923], and slew[H4191] him there.
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And they brought[H5375] him on horses[H5483]: and he was buried[H6912] at Jerusalem[H3389] with his fathers[H1] in the city[H5892] of David[H1732].
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And all the people[H5971] of Judah[H3063]took[H3947]Azariah[H5838], which was sixteen[H8337]years[H8141]old[H1121], and made him king[H4427] instead of his father[H1]Amaziah[H558].
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He built[H1129]Elath[H359], and restored[H7725] it to Judah[H3063], after[H310] that the king[H4428]slept[H7901] with his fathers[H1].
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In the fifteenth[H2568]year[H8141] of Amaziah[H558] the son[H1121] of Joash[H3101]king[H4428] of Judah[H3063]Jeroboam[H3379] the son[H1121] of Joash[H3101]king[H4428] of Israel[H3478] began to reign[H4427] in Samaria[H8111], and reigned forty[H705] and one[H259]years[H8141].
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And he did[H6213] that which was evil[H7451] in the sight[H5869] of the LORD[H3068]: he departed[H5493] not from all the sins[H2403] of Jeroboam[H3379] the son[H1121] of Nebat[H5028], who made Israel[H3478] to sin[H2398].
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He restored[H7725] the coast[H1366] of Israel[H3478] from the entering[H935] of Hamath[H2574] unto the sea[H3220] of the plain[H6160], according to the word[H1697] of the LORD[H3068]God[H430] of Israel[H3478], which he spake[H1696] by the hand[H3027] of his servant[H5650]Jonah[H3124], the son[H1121] of Amittai[H573], the prophet[H5030], which was of Gathhepher[H1662].
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For the LORD[H3068]saw[H7200] the affliction[H6040] of Israel[H3478], that it was very[H3966]bitter[H4784]: for there was not[H657] any shut up[H6113], nor any left[H5800], nor any helper[H5826] for Israel[H3478].
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And the LORD[H3068]said[H1696] not that he would blot out[H4229] the name[H8034] of Israel[H3478] from under heaven[H8064]: but he saved[H3467] them by the hand[H3027] of Jeroboam[H3379] the son[H1121] of Joash[H3101].
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Now the rest[H3499] of the acts[H1697] of Jeroboam[H3379], and all that he did[H6213], and his might[H1369], how he warred[H3898], and how he recovered[H7725]Damascus[H1834], and Hamath[H2574], which belonged to Judah[H3063], for Israel[H3478], are they not written[H3789] in the book[H5612] of the chronicles[H1697] of the kings[H4428] of Israel?[H3478]
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And Jeroboam[H3379]slept[H7901] with his fathers[H1], even with the kings[H4428] of Israel[H3478]; and Zachariah[H2148] his son[H1121]reigned[H4427] in his stead.