1In the second year of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the king of Israel: Amaziah, the son of Jehoash, reigned as king of Judah.stylus2 Kings 13:10, 2 Kings 13:10, 2 Chronicles 25:1, 2 Chronicles 25:4, 2 Chronicles 25:12He was twenty-five years old when he had begun to reign. And he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Jehoaddin from Jerusalem.stylus3And he did what is right before the Lord, yet truly, not like David, his father. He acted in accord with all the things that his father Jehoash did,stylus2 Chronicles 25:2, 2 Chronicles 25:3, 2 Chronicles 25:2, 2 Chronicles 25:3, 2 Chronicles 24:24except for this alone: he did not take away the high places. For still the people were immolating, and burning incense, in the high places.stylus2 Kings 12:3, 2 Kings 12:3, 2 Kings 16:4, 2 Kings 16:4, 2 Kings 15:45And when he had obtained the kingdom, he struck down those of his servants who had killed his father, the king.stylus2 Chronicles 25:3, 2 Chronicles 25:4, Numbers 35:33, 2 Kings 12:20, 2 Kings 12:216But the sons of those who had been killed he did not put to death, in accord with what was written in the book of the law of Moses, just as the Lord instructed, saying: “The fathers shall not die for the sons, and the sons shall not die for the fathers. Instead, each one shall die for his own sin.”stylusDeuteronomy 24:16, Deuteronomy 24:16, Ezekiel 18:20, Ezekiel 18:20, Ezekiel 18:47He struck down ten thousand men of Idumea, in the Valley of the Salt Pits. And he captured ‘the Rock’ in battle, and he called its name ‘Subdued by God,’ even to the present day.stylus2 Samuel 8:13, 2 Samuel 8:13, 1 Chronicles 18:12, Joshua 15:38, 1 Chronicles 18:128Then Amaziah sent messengers to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, the king of Israel, saying: “Come, and let us see one another.”stylus2 Chronicles 25:17, 2 Chronicles 25:24, 2 Chronicles 25:17, 2 Chronicles 25:24, 2 Samuel 2:149And Joash, the king of Israel, sent a reply to Amaziah, the king of Judah, saying: “A thistle of Lebanon sent to a cedar, which is in Lebanon, saying: ‘Give your daughter as wife to my son.’ And the beasts of the forest, which are in Lebanon, passed by and trampled the thistle.stylusJudges 9:8, Judges 9:15, Judges 9:8, Judges 9:15, 1 Samuel 13:610You have struck and prevailed over Idumea. And your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your own glory, and be seated in your own house. Why would you provoke evil, so that you would fall, and Judah with you?”stylusDeuteronomy 8:14, 2 Chronicles 26:16, Deuteronomy 8:14, 2 Chronicles 26:16, 2 Chronicles 32:2511But Amaziah was not quieted. And so Joash, the king of Israel, went up. And he and Amaziah, the king of Judah, saw one another at Beth-shemesh, a town in Judah.stylusJoshua 19:38, Joshua 19:38, 2 Chronicles 25:16, Joshua 21:16, 1 Samuel 6:912And Judah was struck down before Israel, and they fled, each to their own tents.stylus2 Samuel 18:17, 2 Samuel 18:17, 1 Samuel 4:10, 1 Samuel 4:10, 1 Kings 22:3613And truly, Joash, the king of Israel, captured Amaziah, the king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh. And he brought him to Jerusalem. And he breached the wall of Jerusalem, from the gate of Ephraim as far as the gate of the Corner, four hundred cubits.stylusNehemiah 8:16, Nehemiah 8:16, Jeremiah 31:38, Nehemiah 12:39, Zechariah 14:1014And he took away all the gold and silver, and all the vessels, which were found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king, and he returned to Samaria with hostages.stylus1 Kings 14:26, 1 Kings 7:51, 1 Kings 14:26, 1 Kings 7:51, 1 Kings 15:1815But the rest of the words of Joash, which he accomplished, and his strength, with which he fought against Amaziah, the king of Judah, have these not been written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?stylus1 Kings 14:19, 1 Kings 14:20, 2 Kings 13:12, 2 Kings 13:13, 2 Kings 10:3416And Joash slept with his fathers, and he was buried in Samaria, with the kings of Israel. And Jeroboam, his son, reigned in his place.stylusHosea 1:1, 2 Kings 13:9, 1 Kings 1:21, 2 Samuel 7:12, Amos 1:117Now Amaziah, the son of Jehoash, the king of Judah, lived for fifteen years after the death of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the king of Israel.stylus2 Chronicles 25:25, 2 Chronicles 25:28, 2 Chronicles 25:25, 2 Chronicles 25:28, 2 Kings 14:2318And the rest of the words of Amaziah, have these not been written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Judah?stylus2 Kings 13:8, 1 Kings 14:29, 1 Kings 11:41, 2 Kings 13:12, 2 Kings 13:819And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem. And he fled to Lachish. And they sent after him, to Lachish, and they killed him there.stylusJoshua 10:31, Joshua 10:31, 2 Chronicles 25:27, 2 Chronicles 25:28, 2 Kings 15:3020And they carried him away on horses. And he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers, in the city of David.stylus2 Kings 9:28, 2 Kings 9:28, 2 Chronicles 26:23, 2 Kings 8:24, 2 Chronicles 33:2021Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, at sixteen years from birth, and they appointed him as king in place of his father, Amaziah.stylus2 Kings 21:24, 2 Kings 15:13, Matthew 1:8, Matthew 1:9, 1 Chronicles 3:1222He built up Elath, and he restored it to Judah, after which the king slept with his fathers.stylus2 Kings 16:6, 2 Kings 16:6, 1 Kings 9:26, 1 Kings 9:26, Deuteronomy 2:823In the fifteenth year of Amaziah, the son of Jehoash, the king of Judah: Jeroboam, the son of Joash, the king of Israel, reigned, in Samaria, for forty-one years.stylusAmos 7:9, Amos 7:11, Hosea 1:1, 2 Kings 14:27, Amos 1:124And he did what is evil before the Lord. He did not withdraw from all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.stylus2 Kings 13:6, 2 Kings 13:2, 2 Kings 13:11, Deuteronomy 9:18, 1 Kings 12:2825He restored the borders of Israel, from the entrance of Hamath as far as the Sea of the Wilderness, in accord with the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, which he spoke through his servant, the prophet Jonah, the son of Amittai, who was from Gath, which is in Hepher.stylusDeuteronomy 3:17, Deuteronomy 3:17, 1 Kings 8:65, Jonah 1:1, Matthew 12:3926For the Lord saw the exceedingly bitter affliction of Israel, and that they were being consumed, even to those who were enclosed in prison, and even to the least ones, and that there was no one who would help Israel.stylusDeuteronomy 32:36, Deuteronomy 32:36, 2 Kings 13:4, 2 Kings 13:4, Exodus 3:727But the Lord did not say that he would wipe away the name of Israel from under heaven. So instead, he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam, the son of Joash.stylus2 Kings 13:23, 2 Kings 13:23, 2 Kings 13:5, 2 Kings 13:5, Exodus 32:3228But the rest of the words of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his strength, with which he went to battle, and the manner in which he restored Damascus and Hamath to Judah, in Israel, have these not been written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?stylus1 Kings 11:24, 1 Kings 11:24, 2 Samuel 8:6, 1 Chronicles 18:5, 1 Chronicles 18:629And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, the kings of Israel. And Zechariah, his son, reigned in his place.stylus2 Kings 15:8, 2 Kings 15:8