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In the second year of Joas the son of Joachaz king of Israel, did Amessias also the
son of Joas the king of Juda Gr. reigned begin to reign.
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Gr. a son of 25 years in his reigning Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and
nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Joadim of Jerusalem.
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And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not as David his father:
he did according to all things that his father Joas did.
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Only he removed not the high places: as yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense
on the high places.
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And it came to pass when the kingdom was established in his hand, that he Gr. smote slew his servants that had Gr. smitten
slain the king his father.
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But he slew not the sons of those that had slain him; according as it is written in
the book of the laws of Moses, as the Lord gave commandment, saying, The fathers shall
not be put to death for the children, and the children shall not be put to death for
the fathers; but every one Or, be put to death, etc. shall die for his own sins.
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He smote of Edom ten thousand in the The Gr. is from xlm-ygb Keri valley of salt, and took Heb. Selah the Rock in the war,
and called its name Jethoel until this day.
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Then Amessias sent messengers to Joas son of Joachaz son of Ju king of Israel, saying,
Come, let us Gr. appear to faces look one another in the face.
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And Joas the king of Israel sent to Amessias king of Juda, saying, The thistle that
was in Libanus sent to the cedar that was in Libanus, saying, Give my daughter to
your son to wife: and the wild beasts of the field that were in Libanus passed by
and trod down the thistle.
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You have smitten and wounded Edom, and your heart has lifted you up: Gr. glorify yourself sitting in your house stay at home
and glorify yourself; for wherefore are you quarrelsome to your hurt?
So both you will fall and Juda with you.
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Nevertheless Amessias hearkened not: so Joas king of Israel went up, and he and Amessias
king of Juda looked one another in the face in Baethsamys of Juda.
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And Juda Gr. fell was overthrown before Israel, and every man fled to his tent.
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And Joas king of Israel took Amessias the son of Joas the son of Ochozias, in Baethsamys;
and he came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, beginning at the gate
of Ephraim as far as the gate of the corner, four hundred cubits.
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And he took the gold, and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house
of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and the Gr. and Heb. lit. sons of exchange hostages, and returned to
Samaria.
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And the rest of the acts of Joas, even all that he did in his might, how he warred
with Amessias king of Juda, are not these things written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel?
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And 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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And Amessias 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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And the rest of the acts of Amessias, and all that he did, are not these written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?
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And they Gr. conspired with a conspiracy formed a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachis: and they sent
after him to Lachis, and slew him there.
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And they Gr. lifted him brought him upon horses; and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city
of David.
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And all the people of Juda took Azarias, and he was Gr. a son of 16 years sixteen years old, and made him king in the room
of his father Amessias.
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He built Æloth, and restored it to Juda, after the king slept with his fathers.
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In the fifteenth year of Amessias son of Joas king of Juda Gr. reigned began Jeroboam son of Joas to reign over Israel in
Samaria forty and one years.
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And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from all
the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who led Israel to sin.
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He recovered the coast of Israel from the entering in of Æmath to the sea of i. e. the plain Araba, according to the word
of the Lord God of Israel, which he spoke by Gr. the hand of his servant his servant Jonas the son of Amathi, the prophet
of Gethchopher.
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For the Lord saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, and that they were
few in number, straitened and in want, and Or, left alone destitute, and Israel had no helper.
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And the Lord Or, said not that he would said that he would not blot out the seed of Israel from under heaven; so he delivered
them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joas.
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And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did, and his mighty deeds, which
he achieved in war, and how he recovered Damascus and Æmath to Juda in Israel, are
not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
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And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zacharias
his son reigned in his stead.