2 Kings 14:10-26

¹⁰The meaning of what I am saying is that your army has defeated the army of Edom, so now you have become very proud. But you should be content with defeating the people of Edom, and allow your soldiers to stay at home. If you cause trouble by fighting against us, you will surely RHQ cause a disaster to happen to you and to your people.”

¹¹But Amaziah refused to heed Jehoash's message. So he marched with his army to fight against the Israeli army at Beth-Shemesh city in Judah.

¹²The Israeli army defeated the army of Judah, and all the soldiers of Judah fled and ran back home.

¹³Jehoash's army also captured King Amaziah there, and they also marched to Jerusalem and tore down the wall that was around the city, from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate. That was a section that was about ◄200 yards/180 meters► long.

¹⁴Jehoash's soldiers seized all the gold and silver that they found, and all the utensils that were in the temple, and all the valuable things that were in the palace, and took them to Samaria. They also took to Samaria some prisoners whom they had captured.

¹⁵If you want to know about all the other things that Jehoash did when he was king, including when he and his army fought against the army of King Amaziah of Judah, they are written in the scroll called ❛The History of the Kings of Israel❜.

¹⁶Jehoash died EUP, and he was buried in Samaria, where the other kings of Israel had been buried. Then his son Jeroboam #2 became the king.

¹⁷Amaziah, the king of Judah, lived for fifteen more years after Jehoash, the king of Israel, died.

¹⁸If you want to know more about everything else that Amaziah did, it is written RHQ in the scroll called ❛The History of the Kings of Judah❜.

¹⁹Some people in Jerusalem plotted against Amaziah, so he fled to Lachish city. But they followed him there and killed him.

²⁰They took his corpse back to Jerusalem and buried it where his ancestors had been buried, in the part of Jerusalem called ❛The City of David❜.

²¹Then all the people of Judah appointed Amaziah's son Uzziah, when he was sixteen years old, to be their king

²²After his father died, Uzziah's workers captured Elath city, and it came under the control of Judah again.

²³When Amaziah had been ruling Judah for almost fifteen years, Jeroboam #2 became the king of Israel. He ruled in Samaria city for forty-one years.

²⁴He did many things that Yahweh considered to be evil. He did not stop committing the same kind of sins that Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, committed, sins which led the Israeli people to sin also.

²⁵His soldiers conquered again some of the territory that had previously belonged to Israel, from Hamath city in the north to the Dead Sea in the south. That is what Yahweh, the God whom the Israelis worshiped, promised the prophet Jonah, the son of Amittai, from Gath-Hepher town, would happen.

²⁶That happened because Yahweh saw that the Israelis' enemies were causing the Israelis to suffer very much. And there was absolutely no one IDM who would help them.