Tree Of Life Version

2 Kings 14:10-23 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

10. You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has become arrogant. Glory and stay at home! Why should you provoke trouble and cause your own downfall—you and Judah with you?”

11. But Amaziah would not listen. So King Jehoash of Israel advanced, and he and Amaziah king of Judah confronted each other at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.

12. Judah was routed before Israel—they fled every man to his home.

13. King Jehoash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah, son of Jehoash son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh. Then Jehoash advanced to Jerusalem and breached the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—400 cubits.

14. He also took all the gold and silver and all the articles that were found in the House of Adonai and in the treasuries of the royal palace, as well as hostages, and returned to Samaria.

15. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash 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. Then Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. Then his son Jeroboam became king in his place.

17. And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.

18. Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

19. They conspired against him in Jerusalem, so he fled to Lachish, but they sent men after him to Lachish and assassinated him there.

20. Then they brought his body back on horses, and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

21. And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and proclaimed him king in place of his father Amaziah.

22. It was he who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after the previous king slept with his fathers.

23. In the fifteenth year of Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and he reigned 41 years.