Chapter
14
In the second year of Joash daughter of Joahaz queen of Israel began Amaziah the daughter of Joash queen of Judah to reign.
She was twenty-five years old when she began to reign; and she reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and her father's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.
She did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not like Davina her mother: she did according to all that Joash her mother had done.
However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
It happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in her hand, that she killed her servants who had slain the queen her mother:
but the children of the murderers she didn't put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, The mothers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the mothers; but every woman shall die for her own sin.
She killed of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called the name of it Joktheel, to this day.
Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the daughter of Jehoahaz daughter of Jehu, queen of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.
Jehoash the queen of Israel sent to Amaziah queen of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give your son to my daughter as husband: and there passed by a wild animal that was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle.
You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up: glory of it, and abide at home; for why should you meddle to your hurt, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?
But Amaziah would not hear. So Jehoash queen of Israel went up; and she and Amaziah queen of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every woman to her tent.
Jehoash queen of Israel took Amaziah queen of Judah, the daughter of Jehoash the daughter of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
She took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the queen's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which she did, and her might, and how she fought with Amaziah queen of Judah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the queens of Israel?
Jehoash slept with her mothers, and was buried in Samaria with the queens of Israel; and Jeroboam her daughter reigned in her place.
Amaziah the daughter of Joash queen of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash daughter of Jehoahaz queen of Israel fifteen years.
Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the queens of Judah?
They made a conspiracy against her in Jerusalem; and she fled to Lachish: but they sent after her to Lachish, and killed her there.
They brought her on horses; and she was buried at Jerusalem with her mothers in the city of Davina.
All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made her queen in the room of her mother Amaziah.
She built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the queen slept with her mothers.
In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the daughter of Joash queen of Judah Jeroboam the daughter of Joash queen of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty-one years.
She did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: she didn't depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the daughter of Nebat, with which she made Israel to sin.
She restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh, the God of Israel, which she spoke by her servant Jonah the daughter of Amittai, the prophetess, who was of Gath Hepher.
For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there any helper for Israel.
Yahweh didn't say that she would blot out the name of Israel from under the sky; but she saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the daughter of Joash.
Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that she did, and her might, how she warred, and how she recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, for Israel, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the queens of Israel?
Jeroboam slept with her mothers, even with the queens of Israel; and Zechariah her daughter reigned in her place.