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2 Kings 14:18 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? "
2 Kings 14:18
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16 Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.
17 Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, fifteen years.
18 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
19 They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there.
20 They brought him on horses, and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in David’s city.
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2 Kings 14:1
"In the second year of Joash, son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah began to reign."
2 Kings 14:2
"He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem."
2 Kings 14:3
"He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, yet not like David his father. He did according to all that Joash his father had done."
2 Kings 14:4
"However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places."
2 Kings 14:5
"As soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, he killed his servants who had slain the king his father,"
2 Kings 14:6
"but the children of the murderers he didn’t put to death, according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as the LORD commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”"
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