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2 Kings 14 Summary
Amaziah's Conflict and Defeat
Amaziah begins to reign at twenty-five and does what is right, though high places remain. He executes the servants who killed his father but spares their children according to the law. After defeating ten thousand Edomites in the Salt Valley, Amaziah challenges Jehoash of Israel, who responds with a parable warning against pride. At Beth-shemesh, Judah is defeated, Amaziah is captured, and Israel's king takes treasures from the temple and breaks down Jerusalem's wall. After Jehoash dies, Amaziah lives another fifteen years but eventually faces conspiracy, flees to Lachish, and is killed there.
Key themes
Key verses
2 Kings 14:3
“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.”
2 Kings 14:6
“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.”
2 Kings 14:9-10
“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.”
2 Kings 14:13
“And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.”
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