1In the second year of Jehoash ²¹, the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah, the son of Joash ²², king of Judah, reigned.

2Amaziah was of five and twenty years, when he began to reign; and he reigned in Jerusalem nine and twenty years; the name of his mother was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

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 ²³, 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.

14And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels, that were found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures [or treasuries] of the king; and he took hostages, and turned again into Samaria.

15Soothly the residue of [the] words of Jehoash, which he did, and his strength, by which he fought against Amaziah, king of Judah, whether these be not written in the book of [the] words of [the] days of the kings of Israel?

16And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam II, his son, reigned for him ²⁴.

17Forsooth Amaziah, the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived five and twenty years, after that Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, was dead.

18Forsooth the residue of the words of Amaziah, whether these be not written in the book of [the] words of [the] days of the kings of Judah?

19And swearing together, that is, conspiracy, in Jerusalem was made against him, and he fled into Lachish; and they sent after him into Lachish, and killed him there.

20And they bare out him in horses, and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers, in the city of David.

21Forsooth all the people of Judah took Azariah, having sixteen years; and made him king for his father Amaziah.

22He builded Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

23In the fifteenth year of Amaziah, the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam II, the son of Jehoash, king of Israel, reigned in Samaria one and forty years;

24and did that, that is evil before the Lord; he went not away from all the sins of Jeroboam, [the] son of Nebat, that made Israel to do sin.

25He restored the terms of Israel, from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of wilderness, by the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he spake by his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, by Jonah, the prophet, that was of Gath, that is in Hepher.

26For the Lord saw the full bitter torment of Israel, and that they were wasted unto the enclosed men of prison, and to the last men, and there was none that helped Israel.

27And the Lord spake not, that he should do away [the name of] Israel from under heaven, but he saved them in the hand of Jeroboam II, the son of Jehoash.

28Forsooth the residue of the words of Jeroboam II, and all things that he did, and the strength of him, by which he fought, and how he restored Damascus, and Hamath of Judah, in Israel, whether these be not written in the book of [the] words of [the] days of the kings of Israel?

29And Jeroboam ll slept with his fathers, the kings of Israel; and Zechariah ²⁵, his son, reigned for him.