1 In die tweede jaar van Joas, die seun van Joahas, die koning van Israel, het Am sia, die seun van Joas, die koning van Juda, koning geword.
2 Vyf en twintig jaar was hy oud toe hy koning geword het; en nege en twintig jaar het hy in Jerusalem geregeer; en die naam van sy moeder was Jo ddan van Jerusalem.
3 En hy het gedoen wat reg was in die oë van die HERE, hoewel nie soos sy vader Dawid nie; net soos sy vader Joas gedoen het, het hy gedoen.
4 Net die hoogtes is nie afgeskaf nie: die volk het nog op die hoogtes geoffer en rook laat opgaan.
5 En sodra die koningskap in sy hand bevestig was, het hy sy dienaars, die moordenaars van sy vader, die koning, omgebring.
6 Maar die kinders van die moordenaars het hy nie laat doodmaak nie, soos geskrywe is in die wetboek van Moses, waar die HERE dit beveel het: Die vaders mag nie vir die kinders, en die kinders mag nie vir die vaders gedood word nie; maar elkeen moet vir sy eie sonde sterwe.
7 Hy het die Edomiete in die Soutdal verslaan, tien duisend man, en Sela in die oorlog verower en dit Jokteël genoem, tot vandag toe.
8 Toe stuur Am sia boodskappers na Joas, die seun van Joahas, die seun van Jehu, die koning van Israel, om te sê: Kom, laat ons mekaar se aangesig sien.
9 Maar Joas, die koning van Israel, het Am sia, die koning van Juda, d¡t laat weet: Die distel wat op die L¡banon is, het die seder wat op die L¡banon is, laat weet: Gee jou dogter aan my seun as vrou! Maar die diere van die veld wat op die L¡banon is, het verbygegaan en die distel vertrap.
10 U het inderdaad die Edomiete verslaan, daarom is u hart hoogmoedig; geniet die eer en bly tuis. Waarom wil u u tog in die ongeluk stort, dat u sou val, u en Juda saam met u?
11 Maar Am sia het nie geluister nie. Toe trek Joas, die koning van Israel, op; en hy en Am sia, die koning van Juda, het mekaar se aangesig gesien by Bet-Semes wat aan Juda behoort.
12 En Juda is voor Israel verslaan, en hulle het gevlug elkeen na sy tente toe.
13 En Joas, die koning van Israel, het Am sia, die koning van Juda, die seun van Joas, die seun van Ah sia, by Bet-Semes gevang; en hy het in Jerusalem gekom en vier honderd el van die muur van Jerusalem afgebreek, van die Efraimspoort af tot by die Hoekpoort.
14 En hy het al die goud en die silwer geneem, en al die voorwerpe wat in die huis van die HERE en in die skatkamers van die huis van die koning te vinde was, en ook die gyselaars, en omgedraai na Samar¡a.
15 En die verdere geskiedenis van Joas, wat hy gedoen het, en sy magtige dade en hoe hy teen Am sia, die koning van Juda, geveg het, is dit nie beskrywe in die Kroniekboek van die konings van Israel nie?
16 En Joas het ontslaap met sy vaders en is begrawe in Samar¡a by die konings van Israel; en sy seun Jerobeam het in sy plek koning geword.
17 En Am sia, die seun van Joas, die koning van Juda, het n die dood van Joas, die seun van Joahas, die koning van Israel, vyftien jaar gelewe.
18 En die verdere geskiedenis van Am sia, is dit nie beskrywe in die Kroniekboek van die konings van Juda nie?
19 En hulle het 'n sameswering in Jerusalem teen hom gesmee, sodat hy na Lagis gevlug het; maar hulle het agter hom aan gestuur na Lagis en hom daar gedood.
20 En hulle het hom op perde vervoer, en hy is begrawe in Jerusalem by sy vaders in die stad van Dawid.
21 En die hele volk van Juda het As rja geneem, wat toe sestien jaar oud was, en hom koning gemaak in die plek van sy vader Am sia.
22 Hy het Elat gebou en weer aan Juda teruggebring, nadat die koning met sy vaders ontslaap het.
23 In die vyftiende jaar van Am sia, die seun van Joas, die koning van Juda, het Jerobeam, die seun van Joas, die koning van Israel, in Samar¡a koning geword -- een en veertig jaar lank.
24 En hy het gedoen wat verkeerd was in die oë van die HERE, hy het nie afgewyk van al die sondes van Jerobeam, die seun van Nebat, wat Israel laat sondig het nie.
25 Hy het die grondgebied van Israel herower van die ingang na Hamat af tot by die see van die Vlakte, volgens die woord van die HERE, die God van Israel, wat Hy gespreek het deur die diens van sy dienskneg Jona, die seun van Am¡ttai, die profeet, wat uit Gat-Hefer was.
26 Want die HERE het gesien dat die ellende van Israel baie bitter was en dit met almal sonder uitsondering gedaan was en Israel geen helper gehad het nie.
27 En die HERE het nog nie gespreek dat Hy die naam van Israel onder die hemel sou uitdelg nie; daarom het Hy hulle verlos deur Jerobeam, die seun van Joas.
28 En die verdere geskiedenis van Jerobeam en alles wat hy gedoen het, en sy magtige dade, hoe hy geveg en hoe hy Damaskus en Hamat van Juda aan Israel teruggebring het, is dit nie beskrywe in die Kroniekboek van die konings van Israel nie?
29 En Jerobeam het ontslaap met sy vaders, met die konings van Israel, en sy seun Sagar¡a het in sy plek koning geword.
1 In the second year of Joash, son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah, the son of Joash, became king of Judah.
2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.
3 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, though not like David his father; he did as Joash his father had done.
4 But still the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.
5 Now when he became strong in the kingdom, straight away he put to death those servants who had taken the life of the king his father;
6 But he did not put their children to death; for the orders of the Lord recorded in the book of the law of Moses say, The fathers are not to be put to death for the children, or the children for their fathers; but a man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done.
7 He put to the sword twelve thousand men of Edom in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela in war, naming it Joktheel, as it is to this day.
8 Then Amaziah sent representatives to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us have a meeting face to face.
9 And Jehoash, king of Israel, sent to Amaziah, king of Judah, saying, The thorn-tree in Lebanon sent to the cedar in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son for a wife: and a beast from the woodland in Lebanon went by, crushing the thorn under his feet.
10 It is true that you have overcome Edom and your heart is uplifted; let that glory be enough for you, and keep in your country; why do you make causes of trouble, putting yourself, and Judah with you, in danger of downfall?
11 But Amaziah gave no attention. So Jehoash, king of Israel, went up, and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, came face to face at Beth-shemesh, which is in Judah.
12 And Judah was overcome before Israel, so that they went in flight, every man to his tent.
13 And Jehoash, king of Israel, made Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah, prisoner at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and had the wall of Jerusalem pulled down from the doorway of Ephraim to the door in the angle, four hundred cubits.
14 And he took all the gold and silver and all the vessels which were in the house of the Lord and in the store-house of the king, together with those whose lives would be the price of broken faith, and went back to Samaria.
15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash, and his power, and how he went to war with Amaziah, king of Judah, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?
16 And Jehoash went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son became king in his place.
17 Amaziah, the son of Joash, king of Judah, went on living for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.
18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?
19 Now they made a secret design against him in Jerusalem; and he went in flight to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.
20 And they took his body on horseback and put it into the earth with his fathers in Jerusalem, the town of David.
21 Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
22 He was the builder of Elath, which he got back for Judah after the death of the king.
23 In the fifteenth year of the rule of Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel, became king in Samaria, ruling for forty-one years.
24 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning away from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.
25 He got back the old limits of Israel from the way into Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, as the Lord had said by his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet of Gath-hepher.
26 For the Lord saw how bitter was the trouble of Israel, and that everyone was cut off, he who was shut up and he who went free, and that Israel had no helper.
27 And the Lord had not said that the name of Israel was to be taken away from the earth; but he gave them a saviour in Jeroboam, the son of Joash.
28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all he did, and his power, and how he went to war with Damascus, causing the wrath of the Lord to be turned away from Israel, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?
29 And Jeroboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son became king in his place.