2nd Kings 14:3-13

³And he did rightfulness or right before the Lord, nevertheless not as David, his father, did; he did by all things that Joash, his father, did,

⁴no but this only, that he did not away high things; for yet the people made sacrifice, and burnt incense in high things.

⁵And when he had gotten the realm, he smote his servants, that had killed the king, his father;

⁶but he killed not the sons of them that had slain the king or his father, by that that is written in the book of the law of Moses, as the Lord commanded to Moses, and said, The Fathers shall not die for the sons, neither the sons for the fathers, but each man shall die in his own sin.

⁷He smote Edom in the valley of makings of salt, he smote ten thousand, and took the Stone in battle; and he called the name thereof Joktheel, which it is still called unto this present day.

⁸Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, and said, Come thou, and see we us in battle.

⁹And Jehoash, king of Israel, sent again to Amaziah, king of Judah, and said mystically, The carduus, or thistle, that is, a low herb, and full of thorns, of the Lebanon sent to the cedar, that is in the Lebanon, and said, Give thy daughter as wife to my son; and the beasts of the forest, that be in the Lebanon, passed forth, and trode down the carduus.

¹⁰Thou hast smitten Edom, and haddest the mastery upon it, and thine heart hath raised thee; be thou satisfied with this glory, and sit in thine house; why excitest, or stirrest up, thou evil, so that thou fall, and Judah with thee?

¹¹And Amaziah assented not to be in peace; and Jehoash, king of Israel, went up, and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, saw themselves when they met in battle in Bethshemesh, a city of Judah.

¹²And Judah was smitten before Israel; and they fled each man into his tabernacles.

¹³Soothly Jehoash, king of Israel, took in Bethshemesh Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah, and brought him into Jerusalem; and he brake the wall of Jerusalem, from the gate of Ephraim unto the gate of the corner, by four hundred cubits.