1In the second year of Joas son of Joachaz, king of Israel, reigned Amasias son of Joas, king of Juda.

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2 Kings 13:10, 2 Kings 13:10, 2 Chronicles 25:1, 2 Chronicles 25:4, 2 Chronicles 25:1

2He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign; and nine and twenty years he reigned in Jerusalem; the name of his mother was Joadan, of Jerusalem.

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3And he did that which was right before the Lord, but yet not like David his father. He did according to all things that Joas his father, did:

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2 Chronicles 25:2, 2 Chronicles 25:3, 2 Chronicles 25:2, 2 Chronicles 25:3, 2 Chronicles 24:2

4But this only, that he took not away the high places; for yet the people sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places:

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2 Kings 12:3, 2 Kings 12:3, 2 Kings 16:4, 2 Kings 16:4, 2 Kings 15:4

5And when he had possession of the kingdom, he put his servants to death that had slain the king, his father.

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2 Chronicles 25:3, 2 Chronicles 25:4, Numbers 35:33, 2 Kings 12:20, 2 Kings 12:21

6But the children of the murderers he did not put to death, according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the Lord commanded, saying: The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: but every man shall die for his own sin.

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Deuteronomy 24:16, Deuteronomy 24:16, Ezekiel 18:20, Ezekiel 18:20, Ezekiel 18:4

7He slew of Edom in the valley of the Saltpits, ten thousand men, and took the rock by war, and called the name thereof Jectehel, unto this day.

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2 Samuel 8:13, 2 Samuel 8:13, 1 Chronicles 18:12, Joshua 15:38, 1 Chronicles 18:12

8Then Amasias sent messengers to Joas, son of Joachaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying: Come, let us see one another.

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2 Chronicles 25:17, 2 Chronicles 25:24, 2 Chronicles 25:17, 2 Chronicles 25:24, 2 Samuel 2:14

9And Joas, king of Israel, sent again to Amasias, king of Juda, saying: A thistle of Libanus sent to a cedar tree, which is in Libanus, saying: Give thy daughter to my son to wife. And the beasts of the forest, that are in Libanus, passed, and trod down the thistle.

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Judges 9:8, Judges 9:15, Judges 9:8, Judges 9:15, 1 Samuel 13:6

10Thou hast beaten and prevailed over Edom, and thy heart hath lifted thee up; be content with this glory, and sit at home; why provokest thou evil, that thou shouldst fall, and Juda with thee?

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Deuteronomy 8:14, 2 Chronicles 26:16, Deuteronomy 8:14, 2 Chronicles 26:16, 2 Chronicles 32:25

11But Amasias did not rest satisfied. So Joas, king of Israel, went up; and he and Amasias, king of Juda, saw one another in Bethsames, a town in Juda.

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Joshua 19:38, Joshua 19:38, 2 Chronicles 25:16, Joshua 21:16, 1 Samuel 6:9

12And Juda was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to their dwellings.

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2 Samuel 18:17, 2 Samuel 18:17, 1 Samuel 4:10, 1 Samuel 4:10, 1 Kings 22:36

13But Joas, king of Israel, took Amasias, king of Juda, the son of Joas, the son of Ochozias, in Bethsames, and brought him into Jerusalem; and he broke down the wall of Jerusalem, from the gate of Ephraim to the gate of the corner, four hundred cubits.

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Nehemiah 8:16, Nehemiah 8:16, Jeremiah 31:38, Nehemiah 12:39, Zechariah 14:10

14And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord, and in the king's treasures, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.

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1 Kings 14:26, 1 Kings 7:51, 1 Kings 14:26, 1 Kings 7:51, 1 Kings 15:18

15But the rest of the acts of Joas, which he did, and his valour, wherewith he fought against Amasias, king of Juda, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

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1 Kings 14:19, 1 Kings 14:20, 2 Kings 13:12, 2 Kings 13:13, 2 Kings 10:34

16And Joas slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, with the kings of Israel: and Jeroboam, his son, reigned in his stead.

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Hosea 1:1, 2 Kings 13:9, 1 Kings 1:21, 2 Samuel 7:12, Amos 1:1

17And Amasias, the son of Joas, king of Juda, lived after the death of Joas, son of Joachaz, king of Israel, fifteen years.

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2 Chronicles 25:25, 2 Chronicles 25:28, 2 Chronicles 25:25, 2 Chronicles 25:28, 2 Kings 14:23

18And the rest of the acts of Amasias, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

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2 Kings 13:8, 1 Kings 14:29, 1 Kings 11:41, 2 Kings 13:12, 2 Kings 13:8

19Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachis. And they sent after him to Lachis, and killed him there.

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Joshua 10:31, Joshua 10:31, 2 Chronicles 25:27, 2 Chronicles 25:28, 2 Kings 15:30

20And they brought him away upon horses, and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers, in the city of David.

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2 Kings 9:28, 2 Kings 9:28, 2 Chronicles 26:23, 2 Kings 8:24, 2 Chronicles 33:20

21And all the people of Juda took Azarias, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father, Amasias.

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2 Kings 21:24, 2 Kings 15:13, Matthew 1:8, Matthew 1:9, 1 Chronicles 3:12

22He built Elath, and restored it to Juda, after that the king slept with his fathers.

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2 Kings 16:6, 2 Kings 16:6, 1 Kings 9:26, 1 Kings 9:26, Deuteronomy 2:8

23In the fifteenth year of Amasias, son of Joas, king of Juda, reigned Jeroboam, the son of Joas, king of Israel, in Samaria, one and forty years:

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Amos 7:9, Amos 7:11, Hosea 1:1, 2 Kings 14:27, Amos 1:1

24And he did that which is evil before the Lord. He departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.

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2 Kings 13:6, 2 Kings 13:2, 2 Kings 13:11, Deuteronomy 9:18, 1 Kings 12:28

25He restored the borders of Israel from the entrance of Emath, unto the sea of the wilderness, according to the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant, Jonas, the son of Amathi, the prophet, who was of Geth, which is in Opher.

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Deuteronomy 3:17, Deuteronomy 3:17, 1 Kings 8:65, Jonah 1:1, Matthew 12:39

26For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, that it was exceedingly bitter, and that they were consumed even to them that were shut up in prison, and the lowest persons, and that there was no one to help Israel.

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Deuteronomy 32:36, Deuteronomy 32:36, 2 Kings 13:4, 2 Kings 13:4, Exodus 3:7

27And the Lord did not say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam, the son of Joas.

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2 Kings 13:23, 2 Kings 13:23, 2 Kings 13:5, 2 Kings 13:5, Exodus 32:32

28But the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his valour, wherewith he fought, and how he restored Damascus and Emath to Juda, in Israel, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

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1 Kings 11:24, 1 Kings 11:24, 2 Samuel 8:6, 1 Chronicles 18:5, 1 Chronicles 18:6

29And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, the kings of Israel; and Zacharias, his son, reigned in his stead.

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2 Kings 15:8, 2 Kings 15:8