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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 14
Amaziah reigns well in Judah—Israel defeats Judah in
battle—Jeroboam reigns in wickedness in Israel.
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1 IN the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
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3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.
4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
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5 ¶ And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom
was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had
aslain the king his father.
6 But the children of the murderers he slew not:
according unto 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, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man
shall be put to adeath for his bown
csin.
7 He slew of Edom in the valley of
asalt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the
name of it Joktheel unto this day.
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8 ¶ Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.
9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart
hath alifted thee up: glory of this, and tarry at
home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest
fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
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11 But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to their tents.
13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
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15 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of
Jehoasha 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 And Jehoash 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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15a the rest of the acts of
Jehoash Now unless the first account of the death of Joash/Jehoash
in 2 Kings 13:12-13 was actually to be that of Joash king of Judah, then
this is the second and redundant such account given in the Jewish prepared
book of 2 Kings. (See 2 Kings 13:12-13)
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17 ¶ And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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19 Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
20 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
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21 ¶ And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
22 He built aElath, and restored
it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
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23 ¶ In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.
24 And he did that which was evil in the
sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of
aJeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
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25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering
of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of
Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant
aJonaha,
the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gath-hepher.
26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.
27 And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
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25a Jonah This is the prophet
Jonah of the book by the same name. Though that book is but a portion of the
life and likely the teachings of Jonah, the book of Jonah was most likely a
recompilation and abridgment into just that story sequence recorded by the
hand(s) of such Jewish scribes and editors which did compile the Jewish
Old Testament. It is considered that Jonah the prophet lived in the days of
Jeroboam II king of Israel.
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28 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
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