OET INT FRT GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
OET 2 KI Intro C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25
OET KI2 14 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16
This is still an early look into the drafted text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.
14 In the second year of the reign of Yehoahaz’s son Yehoash over Yisrael (Israel), Amatsyah replaced his father Yoash as king of Yehudah (Judah). 2 He was twenty-five when he became king, and he reigned from Yerushalem (Jerusalem) for twenty-nine years. (His mother’s name was Yeho’adin from Yerushalem.) 3 He did what Yahweh had said was correct behaviour, although not as thoroughly as his ancestor David—his behaviour was more like that of his father Yoash. 4 However, the hilltop shrines weren’t removed—people were still sacrificing and burning incense at them.
5 Once he was firmly established as king, Amatsyah had the servants executed who had assassinated his father Yoash,[ref] 6 but he didn’t have their sons executed, because in the scroll where Mosheh (Moses) had written the laws, Yahweh had commanded, “Fathers shouldn’t be executed for what their sons do, nor should sons be executed for the crimes of their ancestors—rather an individual should only be executed for their own crime.”
7 He led the victory over ten thousand Edomim in the Salt Valley, seizing Sela in the battle and renaming it as Yakete’el which it’s still called today.
8 Then Amatsyah sent messengers to Yisrael’s (Israel) King Yehoash (the son of Yehoahaz, the son of Yehu (Jehu)) challenging, “Come on, let’s have it out with each other.” 9 But King Yehoash replied to Yehudah’s King Amatsyah, “The thistle that was in the Levanon forest sent to the cedar that was in the Levanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ But a wild animal that was in the Levanon passed by and it trampled the thistle. 10 It’s true that you won a battle with Edom and you’re feeling encouraged. Accept that honour, but stay home now. Why would you stir up trouble only to fall again—you and all Yehudah with you?”
11 But Amatsyah wouldn’t listen so the armies of Yisrael’s King Yehoash and Yehudah’s (Judah) King Amatsyah faced each other in Yehudah at Beyt-Shemesh (Heliopolis). 12 However, Yehudah was overcome by Yisrael, and its warriors had to flee home from the battlefield. 13 So Yisrael’s King Yehoash captured Yehudah’s King Amatsyah (the son of Yehoash, the son of Ahazyah) in Beyt-Shemesh. Then he went to Yerushalem (Jerusalem), and he broke down the city wall from the Efrayim Gate up to the Corner Gate—almost two hundred metres of it. 14 He took all the gold and silver, and all the equipment that was found in Yahweh’s temple and in the palace treasuries. Then taking some hostages as well, he returned to Shomron (Samaria).
15 Everything else that Yehoash said and did, including his battle with Yehudah’s King Amatsyah, is written in the book of the events of the kings of Yisrael. 16 Then Yehoash died and was buried in Shomron with the former kings of Yisrael, and his son Yarov’am (Jeroboam) replaced him as king.
14:2 OSHB variant note: יהועדין: (x-qere) ’יְהֽוֹעַדָּ֖ן’: lemma=3086 n=0.0 morph=HNp id=12rrT יְהֽוֹעַדָּ֖ן
14:6 OSHB variant note: ימות: (x-qere) ’יוּמָֽת’: lemma=4191 n=0 morph=HVHi3ms id=12ywD יוּמָֽת
14:7 OSHB variant note: המלח: (x-qere) ’מֶ֨לַח֙’: lemma=4417 n=1.1.0 morph=HNp id=12yHv מֶ֨לַח֙
14:12 OSHB variant note: ל/אהל/ו: (x-qere) ’לְ/אֹהָלָֽי/ו’: lemma=l/168 n=0 morph=HR/Ncmpc/Sp3ms id=12frk לְ/אֹהָלָֽי/ו
14:13 OSHB variant note: ו/יבאו: (x-qere) ’וַ/יָּבֹא֙’: lemma=c/935 n=0.2.0 morph=HC/Vqw3ms id=12zbT וַ/יָּבֹא֙
2 Kings 14; 2 Chronicles 25
If only a single word could be used to summarize King Amaziah’s reign, perhaps conflicted might be the most fitting. To begin with, his own devotion to the Lord appears to have been conflicted, for he is described by the biblical writers as doing what was right in the sight of the Lord, yet he did not do it wholeheartedly, allowing the pagan high places to remain so that people continued to offer pagan sacrifices. Likewise, Amaziah’s reign was marked by at least two military conflicts–one against Edom and the other against Israel. His military conflict against Edom was itself marked by conflict, for initially Amaziah hired one hundred thousand warriors from Israel to help, but then he sent them home empty-handed after a prophet warned him against including Israelites in the battle, and this resulted in the warriors looting Judean towns on their way home. Amaziah’s conflicted decisions continued with his decision to bring home idols of the Edomites after he had just defeated them in battle, and then he worshiped them. This then led to Amaziah’s defeat by King Joash (or Jehoash) of Israel and the destruction of 200 yards (183 meters) of Jerusalem’s wall between the Gate of Ephraim and the Corner (see “Poster Map of Jerusalem in the Time of Nehemiah, circa 445 B.C.” map for further information regarding the location of the Corner Gate and the Gate of Ephraim). Joash also seized gold, silver, and vessels that were found in the Temple and the king’s palace, and he took many hostages back to Samaria. Later there was a conspiracy against Amaziah in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. His conspirators caught up with him there, however, and killed him.
OET 2 KI Intro C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25