12:014:009 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to
Amaziah king of Judah,
saying,
The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that
was
in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to
wife:
and
there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and
trode
down the thistle.
12:014:010 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine
heart hath lifted
thee
up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for
why shouldest
thou
meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even
thou,
and
Judah with thee?
12:014:011 But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore
Jehoash king of Israel
went
up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another
in
the face at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
12:014:012 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel;
and they fled
every
man to their tents.
12:014:013 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah
king of Judah, the son
of
Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came
to
Jerusalem,
and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate
of
Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
12:014:014 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 Samaria.
12:014:015 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which
he did, and his
might,
and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they
not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of
Israel?
12:014:016 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and
was buried in Samaria
with
the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in
his
stead.
12:014:017 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah
lived after the
death
of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
12:014:018 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are
they not written in
the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
12:014:019 Now they made a conspiracy against him
in Jerusalem: and he
fled
to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and
slew
him
there.
12:014:020 And they brought him on horses: and
he was buried at Jerusalem
with
his fathers in the city of David.
12:014:021 And all the people of Judah took Azariah,
which was sixteen
years
old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
12:014:022 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah,
after that the king
slept
with his fathers.
12:014:023 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son
of Joash king of
Judah
Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign
in
Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.


