2 Kings 14:10-26

¹⁰You may indeed have defeated Edom. Now you've become arrogant. Stay home and enjoy your victory! Why provoke trouble that will bring you down, and Judah with you?”

¹¹But Amaziah refused to listen, so Jehoash, king of Israel, came to attack him. He and Amaziah, king of Judah, met face to face at Beth Shemesh in Judah.

¹²The army of Judah was defeated by Israel, and ran away home.

¹³Jehoash, king of Israel, captured Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Joash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh. Then Jehoash attacked Jerusalem and knocked down the city wall from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate, about four hundred cubits in length.

¹⁴He removed all the gold and silver, and all the items found in the Lord's Temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace, and also some hostages. Then he went back to Samaria.

¹⁵The rest of what happened in Jehoash's reign, all he did, and his great achievements and his war with Amaziah, king of Judah, are recorded in the Book of Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

¹⁶Jehoash died and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. His son Jeroboam succeeded him as king.

¹⁷Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, lived for fifteen more years after the death of Joash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.

¹⁸The rest of the events that happened in Amaziah's reign are recorded in the Book of Chronicles of the Kings of Judah.

¹⁹A conspiracy against Amaziah took place in Jerusalem, and he ran away to Lachish. But men were sent after him and they murdered him there.

²⁰They brought him back on horses and buried him in Jerusalem with his forefathers in the City of David.

²¹Then all the people of Judah made Amaziah's son Azariah king to replace his father. Azariah was sixteen years old.

²²Azariah recaptured Elath for Judah and rebuilt it after his father's death.

²³Jeroboam, son of Jehoash, became king of Israel in the fifteenth year of the reign of Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah. He reigned in Samaria for forty-one years.

²⁴He did what was evil in the Lord's sight and did not end all the sins that Jeroboam, son of Nebat, had made Israel commit.

²⁵He restored the border of Israel to where it had been, from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had said through his servant Jonah, son of Amittai, the prophet, who came from Gath-hepher.

²⁶The Lord had seen how badly the Israelites were suffering, both slave and free. No one was there to help Israel.