# 2 Kings 14 📖: Amaziah and Jeroboam II [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-2 Kings Overview]] | [[2 Kings 13]] | [[2 Kings 15]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### Amaziah’s Reign over Judah [[#Verse 01.]] In the second year of the reign of Israel’s King Joash son of Joahaz, Joash’s son Amaziah became king over Judah.  [[#Verse 02.]] He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother was Jehoaddan, who was from Jerusalem. [[#Verse 03.]] He did what the Lord approved, but not like David his ancestor had done. He followed the example of his father Joash.  [[#Verse 04.]] But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places. [[#Verse 05.]] When he had secured control of the kingdom, he executed the servants who had assassinated his father.  [[#Verse 06.]] But he did not execute the sons of the assassins. He obeyed the Lord’s commandment as recorded in the scroll of the law of Moses, “Fathers must not be put to death for what their sons do, and sons must not be put to death for what their fathers do. A man must be put to death only for his own sin.” [[#Verse 07.]] He defeated 10,000 Edomites in the Salt Valley; he captured Sela in battle and renamed it Joktheel, a name it has retained to this very day.  [[#Verse 08.]] Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel. He said, “Come, let’s meet face to face.” [[#Verse 09.]] King Jehoash of Israel sent this message back to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush in Lebanon sent this message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ Then a wild animal of Lebanon came by and trampled down the thorn.  [[#Verse 10.]] You thoroughly defeated Edom, and it has gone to your head! Gloat over your success, but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?”  [[#Verse 11.]] But Amaziah would not heed the warning, so King Jehoash of Israel attacked. He and King Amaziah of Judah met face to face in Beth Shemesh of Judah.  [[#Verse 12.]] Judah was defeated by Israel, and each man ran back home.  [[#Verse 13.]] King Jehoash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah, son of Jehoash son of Ahaziah, in Beth Shemesh. He attacked Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate—a distance of about 600 feet.  [[#Verse 14.]] He took away all the gold and silver, all the items found in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace, and some hostages. Then he went back to Samaria. [[#Verse 15.]] The rest of the events of Jehoash’s reign, including all his accomplishments and his successful war with King Amaziah of Judah, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 16 Jehoash passed away and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. His son Jeroboam replaced him as king. [[#Verse 16.]] Jehoash passed away and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. His son Jeroboam replaced him as king. [[#Verse 17.]] King Amaziah son of Joash of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of King Jehoash son of Jehoahaz of Israel.  [[#Verse 18.]] The rest of the events of Amaziah’s reign are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.  [[#Verse 19.]] Conspirators plotted against him in Jerusalem, so he fled to Lachish. But they sent assassins after him, and they killed him there.  [[#Verse 20.]] His body was carried back by horses, and he was buried in Jerusalem with his ancestors in the City of David.  [[#Verse 21.]] All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place.  [[#Verse 22.]] Azariah built up Elat and restored it to Judah after the king had passed away. ### Jeroboam II’s Reign over Israel [[#Verse 23.]] In the fifteenth year of the reign of Judah’s King Amaziah son of Joash, Jeroboam son of Joash became king over Israel. He reigned for forty-one years in Samaria.  [[#Verse 24.]] He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.  [[#Verse 25.]] He restored the border of Israel from Lebo Hamath in the north to the sea of the rift valley in the south, just as in the message from the Lord God of Israel that he had announced through his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.  [[#Verse 26.]] The Lord saw Israel’s intense suffering; everyone was weak and incapacitated and Israel had no deliverer.  [[#Verse 27.]] The Lord had not decreed that he would blot out Israel’s memory from under heaven, so he delivered them through Jeroboam son of Joash. [[#Verse 28.]] The rest of the events of Jeroboam’s reign, including all his accomplishments, his military success in restoring Israelite control over Damascus and Hamath, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel.  [[#Verse 29.]] Jeroboam passed away and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. His son Zechariah replaced him as king. ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ###### Verse 27. ###### Verse 28. ###### Verse 29. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. Amaziah quoted Deuteronomy 24:16 when he spared the children of his father's assassins (14:6). 2. Amaziah defeated Edom in the Valley of Salt (14:7), where David had also won a great victory (2 Samuel 8:13). 3. Amaziah captured Sela, meaning "rock," and renamed it Joktheel (14:7). Its exact location is debated. 4. Jehoash answered Amaziah with a fable of a thistle and a cedar (14:9), similar to Jotham's fable of the trees (Judges 9:8-15). 5. Jehoash tore down about six hundred feet (four hundred cubits) of Jerusalem's wall (14:13). 6. Amaziah fled to Lachish, one of Judah's major fortified cities, but was killed there (14:19). 7. Jeroboam II reigned forty-one years (14:23), the longest reign of any king of the northern kingdom. 8. Jonah son of Amittai (14:25) is the same prophet as the book of Jonah. His hometown, Gath Hepher, was in Galilee just a few miles from Nazareth. 9. Jeroboam II restored Israel's border from Lebo Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah (the Dead Sea) (14:25), close to the borders of Solomon's day (1 Kings 8:65). 10. The prophets Amos and Hosea ministered during the reign of Jeroboam II (Amos 1:1; Hosea 1:1). ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is the Helper God sends when no one else can help. The Lord saw Israel's bitter suffering with no one to help them and saved them through Jeroboam II (14:26-27). God sent Jesus to save us while we were still helpless (Romans 5:6). ## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. Amaziah obeyed the Law by not punishing the children of his father's murderers (14:5-6). Why does God care about fairness and justice in how we deal with others? 2. After one victory, Amaziah picked an unnecessary fight with Israel and lost badly (14:8-14). How can success make us vulnerable to pride? 3. God saved Israel even under a king who did evil (14:24-27). What does this tell us about God's mercy toward people who do not deserve it? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verse 6: Amaziah follows the Law of Moses that each person dies for his own sin. - 📖 verse 10: Jehoash warns Amaziah that his victory over Edom has made him proud. - 📖 verses 26-27: The Lord sees Israel's suffering and saves them through Jeroboam II. ## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference - 🔗 [[Romans 05#Verse 06.|Romans 5:6-8]] - Christ died for us while we were still helpless. - 🔗 [[Deuteronomy 24#Verse 16.|Deuteronomy 24:16]] - Each person dies for his own sin. - 🔗 [[Jonah 01#Verse 01.|Jonah 1:1]] - The word of the Lord comes to Jonah son of Amittai. - 🔗 [[Proverbs 16#Verse 18.|Proverbs 16:18]] - Pride goes before destruction. - 🔗 [[Amos 01#Verse 01.|Amos 1:1]] - Amos prophesies in the days of Jeroboam. ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection 📝 SOAP: [[2 Kings 14 - SOAP|The Amazing Grace of God]] ## 📂 Internal Notes