2 Kings 14:8-22

Legacy Standard Bible

^8 (A)Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “^(B)Come, let us face each other.” ⁹ And Jehoash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “^(C)The thorn bush which was in Lebanon sent to the cedar which was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ But a beast of the field that was in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thorn bush. ^10 (D)You have indeed struck down Edom, and ^(E)your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy your glory and stay at home; for why should you provoke calamity so that you, even you, would fall, and Judah with you?”

¹¹ But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at ^(F)Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah. ¹² And Judah was ^[a]defeated by Israel, and ^(G)they fled each to his tent. ¹³ Then Jehoash king of Israel seized 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 ^(H)the Gate of Ephraim to ^(I)the Corner Gate, ^[b]400 cubits. ^14 (J)And he took all the gold and silver and all the utensils which were found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasuries of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.

^15 (K)Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which 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 So Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son became king in his place.

^17 (L)And 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 acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? ¹⁹ And they conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to ^(M)Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there. ²⁰ Then they carried him on horses, and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David. ²¹ And all the people of Judah took ^[c]Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah. ^22 (N)He built Elath and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his fathers.