And as soon as the royal power was firmly his, he killed his servants who had struck down the king his father.

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25 When they had departed from him, leaving him (A)severely wounded, (B)his servants conspired against him because of the blood of (C)the son[a] of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed. So he died, and they buried him in the city of David, (D)but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings. 26 Those who conspired against him were Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonite, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabite.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 24:25 Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew sons

And as soon as the royal power was (A)firmly in his hand, he struck down his servants (B)who had struck down the king his father. But he did not put to death the children of the murderers, according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the Lord commanded, (C)“Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. But each one shall die for his own sin.”

(D)He struck down ten thousand Edomites in (E)the Valley of Salt and took (F)Sela by storm, and called it (G)Joktheel, which is its name to this day.

(H)Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash[a] the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, (I)let us look one another in the face.” And Jehoash king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, (J)“A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle. 10 You have indeed (K)struck down Edom, (L)and your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory, and stay at home, for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”

11 But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah (M)faced one another in battle at (N)Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah. 12 And Judah was defeated by Israel, (O)and every man fled to his home. 13 And Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for four hundred cubits,[b] from (P)the Ephraim Gate to (Q)the Corner Gate. 14 And he seized (R)all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king's house, also hostages, and he returned to Samaria.

15 (S)Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash that he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel, and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.

17 (T)Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel. 18 Now the rest of the deeds of Amaziah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 19 And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to (U)Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there. 20 And they brought him on horses; and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David. 21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah. 22 He built (V)Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 14:8 Jehoash is an alternate spelling of Joash (son of Jehoahaz) as in 13:9, 12–14; also verses 9, 11–16
  2. 2 Kings 14:13 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters

31 Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall be put to death. 32 And you shall accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest. 33 You shall not (A)pollute the land in which you live, for blood (B)pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except (C)by the blood of the one who shed it.

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14 But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, (A)you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

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And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: (A)from every beast I will require it and (B)from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.

(C)“Whoever sheds the blood of man,
    by man shall his blood be shed,
(D)for God made man in his own image.

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