14:025:014 Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah
was come from the
slaughter
of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the
children
of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed
down
himself before them, and burned incense unto them.
14:025:015 Wherefore the anger of the lord was
kindled against Amaziah,
and
he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why
hast
thou
sought after the gods of the people, which could not
deliver
their own people out of thine hand?
14:025:016 And it came to pass, as he talked with
him, that the king said
unto
him, Art thou made of the king’s counsel? forbear;
why
shouldest
thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and
said,
I
know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because
thou
hast
done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.
14:025:017 Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice,
and sent to Joash, the
son
of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying,
Come,
let us see one another in the face.
14:025:018 And Joash 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.
14:025:019 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the
Edomites; and thine
heart
lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why
shouldest
thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall,
even
thou, and Judah with thee?
14:025:020 But Amaziah would not hear; for it came
of God, that he might
deliver
them into the hand of their enemies, because they
sought
after the gods of Edom.
14:025:021 So Joash the king of Israel went up; and
they saw one another
in
the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at
Bethshemesh,
which belongeth to Judah.
14:025:022 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel,
and they fled
every
man to his tent.
14:025:023 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah
king of Judah, the
son
of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and
brought
him
to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem
from
the
gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
14:025:024 And he took all the gold and the silver,
and all the vessels
that
were found in the house of God with Obededom, and the
treasures
of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned
to
Samaria.
14:025:025 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah
lived after the
death
of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.


