II Kings 14 · מלכים ב

In the second year of Yo᾽ash son of Yeho᾽aĥaz king of Yisra᾽el, Amażyahu the son of Yo᾽ash king of Yehuda reigned.

He was twenty five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty nine years in Yerushalayim. And his mother’s name was Yeho῾addan of Yerushalayim.

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 Yo᾽ash his father had done.

But the high places were not taken away: as yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.

And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants who had slain the king his father.

But the children of the murderers he slew not: according to that which is written in the book of the Tora of Moshe, 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 death for his own sin.

He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called the name of it Yoqte᾽el to this day.

Then Amażya sent messengers to Yeho᾽ash, the son of Yeho᾽aĥaz son of Yehu, king of Yisra᾽el, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.

And Yeho᾽ash the king of Yisra᾽el sent to Amażya king of Yehuda, saying, The thistle that was in the Levanon sent to the cedar that was in the Levanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in the Levanon, and trampled down the thistle.

Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thy heart has lifted thee up: keep thy glory and stay at home: for why shouldst thou meddle with evil, that thou shouldst fall, thou, and Yehuda with thee?

But Amażyahu would not hear. Therefore Yeho᾽ash king of Yisra᾽el went up; and he and Amażyahu king of Yehuda looked one another in the face at Bet-shemesh, which belongs to Yehuda.

And Yehuda was beaten before Yisra᾽el; and they fled every man to their tents.

And Yeho᾽ash king of Yisra᾽el took Amażyahu king of Yehuda, the son of Yeho᾽ash the son of Aĥazyahu, at Bet-shemesh, and came to Yerushalayim and broke down the wall of Yerushalayim from the Gate of Efrayim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits.

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 Shomeron.

Now the rest of the acts of Yeho᾽ash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amażyahu king of Yehuda, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisra᾽el?

And Yeho᾽ash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Shomeron with the kings of Yisra᾽el; and Yorov῾am his son reigned in his stead.

And Amażyahu the son of Yo᾽ash king of Yehuda lived after the death of Yeho᾽ash son of Yeho᾽aĥaz king of Yisra᾽el fifteen years.

And the rest of the acts of Amażyahu, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehuda?

Now they made a conspiracy against him in Yerushalayim: and he fled to Lakhish; but they sent after him to Lakhish, and slew him there.

And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Yerushalayim with his fathers in the city of David.

And all the people of Yehuda took ῾Azarya, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amażyahu.

He built Elat, and restored it to Yehuda, after the king slept with his fathers.

In the fifteenth year of Amażyahu the son of Yo᾽ash king of Yehuda, Yorov῾am the son of Yo᾽ash king of Yisra᾽el began to reign in Shomeron, and he reigned forty one years.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from all the sins of Yorov῾am the son of Nevat, who made Yisra᾽el to sin.

He restored the border of Yisra᾽el from the entrance of Ḥamat to the sea of the ῾Arava, according to the word of the Lord God of Yisra᾽el, which he spoke by the hand of his servant Yona, the son of Amittay, the prophet, who was of Gat-ĥefer.

For the Lord saw the affliction of Yisra᾽el that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left free, nor any helper for Yisra᾽el.

For the Lord had not said that he would blot out the name of Yisra᾽el from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Yorov῾am the son of Yo᾽ash.

Now the rest of the acts of Yorov῾am, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Dammeseq, and Ḥamat (which had belonged to Yehuda) for Yisra᾽el, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisra᾽el?

And Yorov῾am slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Yisra᾽el, and Zekharya his son reigned in his stead.