These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Kings 14
Tanakh 29 verses
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In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz of began Amaziah the son of Joash of to reign.
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- 2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in ; and his mother’s was Jehoaddan of .
- 3 And he did that which was right in the eyes of , yet not like his father; he did according to all that Joash his father had done.
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Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and offered in the high places.
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And it came to pass, as soon as the was established in his hand, that he slew his servants who had slain the his father;
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but the children of the murderers he put not to death; according to that which is written in the book of the of , as 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 death for his own sin.’
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He slew of in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called the of it Joktheel, unto this day.
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- 8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, of , saying: ‘Come, let us look one another in the .’
- 9 And Jehoash the of sent to Amaziah of , 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 the wild beasts that were in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle.
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Thou hast indeed smitten , and will thy lift thee up? therein, and remain at home; for why shouldest thou meddle with evil, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and with thee?
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Deuteronomy 8:14 2 Chronicles 26:16 2 Chronicles 32:25 Proverbs 15:18 Proverbs 3:30 Proverbs 20:3 Proverbs 16:18 Habakkuk 2:4 Luke 14:31-32 Proverbs 25:8 Jeremiah 9:23-24 Ezekiel 38:17 2 Chronicles 35:21 Ezekiel 38:5 2 Kings 14:7 Proverbs 26:17 James 1:9 Ezekiel 38:2 Daniel 5:20-23 Exodus 8:9 Proverbs 17:14 James 4:6 -
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But Amaziah would not . So Jehoash of went up; and he and Amaziah of looked one another in the at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to .
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And was put to the worse before ; and they fled every man to his tent.
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- 13 And Jehoash of took Amaziah of , the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to , and broke down the wall of from the gate of unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
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And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of , and in the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to .
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Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah of , are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of ?
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And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in with the kings of ; and his son reigned in his stead.
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And Amaziah the son of Joash of lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz of fifteen years.
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Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of ?
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- 19 And they made a conspiracy against him in ; and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
- 20 And they brought him upon horses; and he was buried at with his fathers in the city of .
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And all the people of took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him in the room of his father Amaziah.
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He built Elath, and restored it to , after that the slept with his fathers.
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In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash of the son of Joash of began to reign in , and reigned forty and one years.
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- 24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of ; he departed not from all the sins of the son of Nebat, wherewith he made to sin.
- 25 He restored the border of from the entrance of Hamath unto the sea of the Arabah, according to the of , the of , which He spoke by the hand of His the son of Amittai, the , who was of Gath-hepher.
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For saw the affliction of , that it was very bitter; for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there any helper for .
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- 27 And said not that He would blot out the of from under ; but He saved them by the hand of the son of Joash.
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Now the rest of the acts of , and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered , and Hamath, for in , are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of ?
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And slept with his fathers, even with the kings of ; and his son reigned in his stead.
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