2 Kings 14 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ In the second year of Yo’ash son of Yo’aḥ

² He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Yerushalayim. And his mother’s name was Yehoʽ

³ And he did what was right in the eyes of יהוה, but not like his father Dawiḏ

⁴ However, the high places were not taken away. The people still slaughtered and burned incense on the high places.

⁵ And it came to be, as soon as the reign was strong in his hand, that he smote his servants who had smitten his father the sovereign.

⁶ But he did not put to death the children of the murderers, according to what is written in the Book of the Torah of Mosheh, in which יהוה  commanded, saying, “Fathers are not put to death for the children, and children are not put to death for the fathers, but each one is put to death for his own sin.”

⁷ He smote Eḏ

⁸ Amatsyah then sent messengers to Yeho’ash son of Yeho’aḥ

⁹ And Yeho’ash sovereign of Yisra’ĕ

¹⁰ “You have certainly smitten Eḏ

¹¹ But Amatsyahu did not listen, so Yeho’ash sovereign of Yisra’ĕ

¹² And Yehuḏ

¹³ And Yeho’ash sovereign of Yisra’ĕ

¹⁴ and took all the gold and silver, and all the objects that were found in the House of יהוה  and in the treasuries of the sovereign’s house, and hostages, and returned to Shomeron.

¹⁵ And the rest of the acts of Yeho’ash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amatsyahu sovereign of Yehuḏ

¹⁶ So Yeho’ash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Shomeron with the sovereigns of Yisra’ĕ

¹⁷ And Amatsyahu son of Yo’ash, sovereign of Yehuḏ

¹⁸ And the rest of the acts of Amatsyahu, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yehuḏ

¹⁹ And they made a conspiracy against him in Yerushalayim, and he fled to Laḵ

²⁰ and brought him on horses, and he was buried at Yerushalayim with his fathers in the City of Dawiḏ

²¹ And all the people of Yehuḏ

²² He built Ě

²³ In the fifteenth year of Amatsyahu son of Yo’ash, the sovereign of Yehuḏ

²⁴ And he did evil in the eyes of יהוה. He did not turn away from all the sins of Yaroḇ

²⁵ He restored the border of Yisra’ĕ

²⁶ For יהוה  saw that the affliction of Yisra’ĕ

²⁷ And יהוה  had not said that He would blot out the name of Yisra’ĕ

²⁸ And the rest of the acts of Yaroḇ

²⁹ So Yaroḇ