2 Kings 14

In the second year of Joas son of Joachas king of Israel, Amessias son of Joas also began to reign as king of Juda.

He was a son of twenty-five years when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Joadin, of Jerusalem.

And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, only not as David his father; according to all that Joas his father did, he did.

Only the high places he did not remove; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

And it came to pass, when the kingdom grew strong in his hand, that he struck his servants who had struck his father.

But the sons of those who had struck he did not put to death, as it is written in the book of the laws of Moses, as the Lord commanded, saying, 'Fathers shall not die for sons, and sons shall not die for fathers; but each shall die in his own sins.'

He struck Edom in Gaimele, ten thousand, and he captured the rock in the war, and he called its name Kathoel until this day.

Then Amessias sent messengers to Joas son of Joachas son of Jou king of Israel, saying, 'Come, let us look one another in the face.'

And Joas king of Israel sent to Amessias king of Juda, saying, 'The thistle that is in Lebanon sent to the cedar that is in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son for a wife. And the beasts of the field that are in Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.

Striking, you have struck Idoumaia, and your heart has lifted you up. Be glorified, sitting in your own house; and why do you contend in your evil, and you will fall, you and Judas with you?'

But Amessias did not listen. And the king of Israel went up, and they looked one another in the face, he and Amessias king of Juda, at Baithsamys of Juda.

And Judas was defeated before Israel, and each man fled to his tent.

And Joas son of Joachas king of Israel captured Amessias son of Joas son of Ochozias king of Juda at Baithsamys; and he came to Jerusalem and broke down part of the wall of Jerusalem, from the gate of Ephraim as far as the gate of the corner, four hundred cubits.

And he took the gold and the silver and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king's house, and the sons of the minglings, and he returned to Samaria.

And the rest of the acts of Joas, what he did in his might, how he fought with Amessias king of Juda—are these not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

And Joas slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.

And Amessias son of Joas king of Juda lived fifteen years after the death of Joas son of Joachas king of Israel.

And the rest of the acts of Amessias, and all that he did—are these not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

And they formed a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachis; and they sent after him to Lachis and put him to death there.

And they carried him upon horses, and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

And all the people of Juda took Azarias—and he was a son of sixteen years—and they made him king in place of his father Amessias.

He built Ailoth and restored it to Juda after the king slept with his fathers.

In the fifteenth year of Amessias son of Joas king of Juda, Jeroboam son of Joas began to reign over Israel in Samaria forty-one years.

And he did what was evil before the Lord; he did not turn away from all the sins of Jeroboam son of Nabat, who made Israel sin.

He shifted the border of Israel, from the entrance of Aimath as far as the sea of the Araba, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he spoke by the hand of his servant Jonas son of Amathi, the prophet from Gethchober.

For the Lord saw the humiliation of Israel, very bitter, and few in number, hard pressed and scarce and forsaken; and there was no one helping Israel.

And the Lord did not speak of blotting out the seed of Israel from under heaven, and he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Joas.

And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his mighty deeds, how he fought, and how he restored Damascus and Aimath to Juda in Israel—are these not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, with the kings of Israel; and Azarias son of Amessias reigned in place of his father.