Bible ~~- Older Testament ~~- 2nd Kings ~~- chapter 14 of 25 (29 verses.)

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King Amaziah Rules Judah In Righteousness
1 In the 2nd year of [the reign of evil northern] Israeli king JAHoash {JAH-Fired} (son of JAHoahaz {JAH-Siezed}), [good king] AmaziYah {YAH's-Alertness} the son of [Judah's good king] JAHoash [begins his] reign as king of Judea.
2 AmaziYah takes the [throne] at 25 years of age. He reigns for 29 years in Jerusalem.
3 [AmaziYah] does what's right in the sight of YHVH, yet not [wholeheartedly] like his fore-father David {Love}. [AmaziYah] replicates the [relatively righteous] actions of his Dad ([good boy-king] JAHoash {JAH-Fired}).
4 Yet [AmaziYah fails to] rid [Judea] of its [occult] high-shrines. The people keep sacrificing [animals] and burning incense [to appease demon-gods] at the high-shrines.
5 [YAH] secures the kingdom [of Judaea] in [AmaziYah's] hand. Immediately [AmaziYah] assassinates his officials who'd murdered his father, [good] king [JAHoash].
6 But [AmaziYah] relents from killing the murderers' children. This [mercy] conforms with the law written in the book of Moses, where YHVH's word commands, β€œNever put fathers to death for [crimes of] their children. [And] never put children to death for the [crimes of their] fathers. Instead, every man dies for his own sin.”
7 In Edom {Red-Man's-Southland}, in the Salt Valley, [AmaziYah] slays 10 thousand [attack-soldiers]. He captures [the region of] Cela {Lofty-Crag} in war. He renames it [the name] it [holds] today: β€˜JoktheEl {Obey-El}’.
AmaziYah Tries To Recapture North Israel
8 Then [Judea's king] AmaziYah {YAH's-Alertness} sends messengers to the [evil] king of [rebel north] Israel (JAhoash {JAH-Fired} (the son of JAHoahaz {JAH-Siezed}, son of JAHu {JAH-Is-He})). [AmaziYah] says, β€œCome. Let's look one another in the face, [on the battlefield. I'm going to reunite the kingdom of David under me!]”
9 So [north] Israel's [brutal] king JAhoash {JAH-Fired} sends [a threatening parable] to Judea's king AmaziYah {YAH's-Alertness}. [The parable warns:] β€œ[You,] a thistle on white [mountain] send [a message] to [me,] the cedar on white [mountain]. [The thistle] demands, β€˜Give your daughter to my son as [his] wife.’ But then a wild [mountain] beast [signifying my army] runs up. It stomps [you,] the thistle [to bits]!
White mountain = Lebanon.
10 β€”So you beat down [the Southland]. Now your heart swelled you up [like a balloon]. Take glory in your victory. Stay home. Why should you hurt yourself by meddling [with me]? [If you mess with north Israel,] you'll fall. You'll [die]. And [you'll destroy] Judaea with you.”
Edom = Red man's southland.
Northern Israel Thrashes & Pillages Jerusalem
11 Yet [king] AmaziYah {YAH's-Alertness} [refuses] to listen [to reason]. So [north] Israel's king JAhoash {JAH-Fired} [marches his army ~45km south]. He and Judah's king AmaziYah stare one another in the face at Beth-Shemesh {House-Of-The-Sun} in Judaea.
12 The [north] Israelis gore Judea, πŸ˜‡. Every [surviving Judaean soldier] flees to his home!
13 [North] Israel's king JAhoash {JAH-Fired} even captures Judea's king AmaziYah {YAH's-Alertness}! [JAHoash] hauls [AmaziYah ~15km east] from Beth-Shemesh {House-Of-The-Sun} to Jerusalem. There [the north-Israelis] break down 400 cubits [600 feet] of the wall of Jerusalem (from the gate of Ephraim {Double-Fruit} to the corner gate)!
Lit: Amaziah the son of JAhoash the son of AhaziYah.
14 Then [JAHoash] steals all the gold and silver and valuables [his soldiers] can find in YHVH's temple. And [JAHoash grabs all] the treasures of [Jerusalem's] royal palace, plus hostages. Then [he marches his army] back [~35km north] to Samaria.
15 You, πŸ˜‡, should find the rest of the acts and accomplishments of JAhoash {JAH-Fired}, and [descriptions of] his power, and how he fought against Judea's king AmaziYah {YAH's-Alertness}, described in the book of the Chronicles Of The Kings of Israel.
16 [In the end,] JAhoash {JAH-Fired} sleeps [in death] beside his forefathers. [His sons] bury him in Samaria beside the [previous] kings of [north] Israel. Then [JAhoash's] brat Jeroboam {Nation-Wrangler} reigns in [JAhoash's] place.
Judea’s Good King AmaziYah Dies, Assassinated
17 [35km to the south] in Judea, [king] AmaziYah {YAH's-Alertness} (the son of Judea's king JAHoash {JAH-Fired} lives for 15 years after the death of JAHoahaz' brat JAhoash, king of [north] Israel.
18 You, πŸ˜‡, should find the rest of the acts of AmaziYah {YAH's-Alertness} described in the book of the Chronicles Of The Kings of Judea.
19 Jerusalem's [evil bigwigs] form a conspiracy against [good king] AmaziYah {YAH's-Alertness}. So he flees [~30km southwest] to Lachish {Harvest}. But the conspirators send [assassins] to chase him in Lachish. There they murder him, πŸ˜‡.
20 [AmaziYah's sons] bring his [corpse] back to Jerusalem on horses. [They] bury him beside his fore-fathers in the citadel of David {Love}.
Good Teen King AzariYah Reigns Over Judea
21 So all the people of Judea take 16-year-old AzariYah {YAH-Helps}. They make him king in place of his [late] father AmaziYah {YAH's-Alertness}.
AzariYah was given ceremonial kingship at 3 years old.
22 King [AzariYah] fortifies [the strategic northern-red-sea port of] Elath {Palms}, [~180km south of Jerusalem]. He repatriates it [from Edom] to Judea. Eventually [AzariYah] sleeps [in death] beside his forefathers.
AzariYah is also called Uzziah. Both named connote β€˜YAH's strength.’
Evil King Jeroboam2 Leads North Israel To Sin
23 Meanwhile, in the 15th year of [the reign of] Judea's king JAHoash's son AmaziYah {YAH's-Alertness}, Jeroboam {Nation-Wrangler} [#2] (the son of [north] Israel's king JAHoash) begins his reign in Samaria. [Jeroboam #2] reigns [for] 41 years.
24 [This Jeroboam also] wreaks ruin under YHVH's [watchful] eye. [Jeroboam #2] never abandons any the sins of Nebat's brat Jeroboam {Nation-Wrangler} [#1], who drove Israel off [history's cliffs].
YAH Uses Evil Jeroboam To Ease Israel's Pain
25 [Jeroboam #2] restores the borders of Israel from the entrance to [northern] Hamath {Joined-Walls}, [south] to the [Dead] Sea in the Arabah {Plains}. This fulfills the word which YHVH Elohim of Israel spoke through the hand of his servant the prophet Jonah {Dove}, the son of Amittai {Truthful}, from Gath-Hepher {WinePress-Well}.
Hamath = the pass between Mount Lebanon & Mount Hermon.
26 For YHVH sees the excruciating bitter suffering [the] Israelis [endure]. [Enemies occupy] their forts. Their people [perish,] without a helper.
27 Yet YHVH [keeps his] promise to never blot out the name of Israel under heaven, πŸ˜‡. [YAH] saves [the Hebrews] through the power-hand of [evil] Jeroboam {Nation-Wrangler} [#2], (the son of JAHoash {JAH-Fired}).
28 Now you, πŸ˜‡, should find the rest of the acts and accomplishments of Jeroboam {Nation-Wrangler} [#2] described in the book of the Chronicles Of The Kings of [north] Israel, including [accounts of Jeroboam's] power, how he warred for [north] Israel, and how he [briefly] recaptured Damascus and Hamath {Joined-Walls}, [which Syria had taken during the fall of Solomon’s] Judean [kingdom].
29 Finally [evil king] Jeroboam {Nation-Wrangler} [#2] sleeps [in death] beside his forefathers, the [prior] kings of [north] Israel. Then [after 11 years without a king, Jeroboam's] brat ZachariYah reigns in [Jeroboam's] place.
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