In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.
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2 Kings 12:2 And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all …
1 Kings 11:4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned …
1 Kings 15:3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before …
2 Chronicles 25:2,3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not …
he did according
2 Chronicles 24:2,17 And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the …
2 Chronicles 25:14-16 Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter …
Jeremiah 16:19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of …
Zechariah 1:4-6 Be you not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cried, …
1 Peter 1:18 For as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible …
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father.
But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
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2 Kings 8:20-22 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made …
2 Chronicles 25:11,12 And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went …
the valley of salt Some suppose that the {Valley of Salt} was south of the Dead, or Salt Sea, towards the land of Edom; and others suppose it to be the Valley of Salt, about three or four miles south-east of Palmyra, which now supplies, in a great measure, the surrounding country with salt.
2 Samuel 8:13 And David got him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians …
1 Chronicles 18:12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley …
Psalm 60:1 O God, you have cast us off, you have scattered us, you have been …
Selah. or, the rock.
Selah is generally supposed to be the same as Petra, which in Greek signifies a {rock}, the celebrated capital of Arabia Petreaea. Strabo places it three or four days' journey from Jericho, and five days' journey from the forest of palm trees on the Red Sea. Pliny places it
Joktheel
Joshua 15:38 And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.
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.
The thistle
Judges 9:8-15 The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they …
2 Samuel 12:1-4 And the LORD sent Nathan to David. And he came to him, and said to …
1 Kings 4:33 And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even …
Ezekiel 20:49 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Does he not speak parables?
The word {choach}, which is rendered here, and in
2 Chronicles 25:18 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The …
Job 31:18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and …
1 Samuel 13:6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people …
2 Chronicles 33:11 Why the LORD brought on them the captains of the host of the king …
Proverbs 26:9 As a thorn goes up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in …
Proverbs 2:2 So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
Hosea 9:6 For, see, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather …
2 Chronicles 25:10-13 Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to him …
The comparatively useless thorn, which may by chance lacerate the incautious passenger, is made the emblem of the house of Judah and David, while the house of Jehu is represented by the stately cedar.
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?
thine heart
Deuteronomy 8:14 Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, which …
2 Chronicles 26:16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: …
2 Chronicles 32:25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done to …
Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Ezekiel 38:2,5,17 Son of man, set your face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief …
Daniel 5:20-23 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, …
Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the …
James 4:6 But he gives more grace. Why he said, God resists the proud, but …
glory of this
Exodus 8:9 And Moses said to Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I entreat for …
Jeremiah 9:23,24 Thus said the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither …
James 1:9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
home [heb] thy house
why shouldest
2 Chronicles 35:21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with you, …
Proverbs 3:30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done you no harm.
Proverbs 15:18 A wrathful man stirs up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeases strife.
Proverbs 17:14 The beginning of strife is as when one lets out water: therefore …
Proverbs 20:3 It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
Proverbs 25:8 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest you know not what to do in the …
Proverbs 26:17 He that passes by, and meddles with strife belonging not to him, …
Luke 14:31,32 Or what king, going to make war against another king, sits not down first…
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.
Amaziah
2 Chronicles 25:16,20 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said to …
Beth-shemesh
Joshua 19:38 And Iron, and Migdalel, Horem, and Bethanath, and Bethshemesh; nineteen …
Joshua 21:16 And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh …
1 Samuel 6:9 And see, if it goes up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, …
And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to their tents.
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.
took Amaziah
2 Kings 25:6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon …
2 Chronicles 33:11 Why the LORD brought on them the captains of the host of the king …
2 Chronicles 36:6,10 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him …
Job 40:11,12 Cast abroad the rage of your wrath: and behold every one that is …
Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 29:23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Isaiah 2:11,12 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men …
Daniel 4:37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, …
Luke 14:11 For whoever exalts himself shall be abased; and he that humbles himself …
the gate of Ephraim
2 Chronicles 25:23,24 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son …
Nehemiah 8:16 So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, …
Nehemiah 12:39 And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above …
the corner
Jeremiah 31:38 Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that the city shall be built …
Zechariah 14:10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south …
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.
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?
And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.
And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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.
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2 Kings 12:20,21 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in …
2 Kings 15:10,14,25,30 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him …
2 Kings 21:23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king …
2 Chronicles 25:27,28 Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the …
fled to Lachish
Joshua 10:31 And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, …
Micah 1:13 O you inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: …
And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
Elath Elath, the Aela or Elana of the Greek and Roman writers, was a celebrated port situated at the extremity of the eastern branch of the Red Sea, hence called the Elanitic Gulf, ten miles east from Petra, according to Eusebius, and
2 Kings 16:6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove …
Deuteronomy 2:8 And when we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, which …
1 Kings 9:26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside …
2 Chronicles 26:2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept …
Eloth
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.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
in the sight
2 Kings 21:6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and …
Genesis 38:7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and …
Deuteronomy 9:18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and …
1 Kings 21:25 But there was none like to Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness …
he departed
2 Kings 13:2,6,11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed …
1 Kings 12:28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and …
Psalm 106:20 Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eats grass.
He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.
from the entering
Numbers 13:21 So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin …
Numbers 34:7,8 And this shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall …
Ezekiel 47:16-18 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus …
Amos 6:14 But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, …
unto the sea
Genesis 14:3 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
Deuteronomy 3:17 The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth …
Jonah
Jonah 1:1 Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
Matthew 12:39,40 But he answered and said to them, An evil and adulterous generation …
Matthew 16:4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there …
jonas
Gath-helper
Joshua 19:13 And from there passes on along on the east to Gittahhepher, to Ittahkazin, …
Gittah-hepher
For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.
saw the affliction
2 Kings 13:4 And Jehoahaz sought the LORD, and the LORD listened to him: for he …
Exodus 3:7,9 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people …
Judges 10:16 And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the …
Psalm 106:43-45 Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their …
Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence …
not any shut
Deuteronomy 32:36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, …
1 Kings 14:10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and …
1 Kings 21:21 Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will take away your posterity, …
And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
said not
2 Kings 13:23 And the LORD was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and …
Hosea 1:6 And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And God said to him, …
blot out
Exodus 32:23,33 For they said to me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for …
Deuteronomy 9:14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from …
Deuteronomy 25:19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest …
Deuteronomy 29:20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his …
Psalm 69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written …
Romans 11:2 God has not cast away his people which he foreknew. Know you not …
Revelation 3:5 He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and …
he saved
2 Kings 5:1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great …
2 Kings 13:5 (And the LORD gave Israel a savior, so that they went out from under …
Hosea 1:7 But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by …
Titus 3:4-6 But after that the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared…
Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
the rest
2 Kings 14:15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, …
Damascus
2 Samuel 8:6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became …
1 Kings 11:24 And he gathered men to him, and became captain over a band, when …
1 Chronicles 18:5,6 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, …
2 Chronicles 8:3,4 And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it…
which belonged to Judah These places belonged to Judah by David's conquest, (2Sa
2 Kings 3:11 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD, that …
And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
