II Kings - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 393

A bramble in Lebanon once sent tothe cedar of Lebanon to say, ‘ Give your daughter to my son as a. wife I ' Then 2. wild beast that was in Lebanon passed and trod down the bremblel You have defeated Edom, and so your heart rises in pride! But go home! Why should you excite trouble, and fall yourself, and all judah with you ? ’

(B.c. 826.) §h¤u¤b nf israel Map- II I2 i1Il`£$ 5Bf1ISRl£!I!. Amatziah would not listen, however,

but advanced against jhoash king of Israel, and they saw each other’s faces, he and Amatziah king of judah, at Bethshemsh, which is in j udah, where judah was routed before Israel and everyone ded to his house. And Amatziah — ben - ]hoash— ben-Ahaziah, king of judah, was also captured by jhoash king of Israel at Bethshemsh, who then advanced to }erusalem# and broke down the wall of jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the corner gate,-——four hundred cubits. He also took all the gold and silver, and the furniture that he found in the Temple of the Evan-Lxvxuo, or that was found in the Royal Palace, and his children for hostages. Then he returned to Shomeron. For the other affairs of jhoash, what

he did, and his achievements, and how he fought with Amatziah, king of judah, they are related in the his- tory of events during the times of the

16 Kings of judah. When jhoash slept with his fathers, he was buried in Shomeron with the Kings of Israel, and jerabam his son reigned after him. (B.c. 810.) Qmaigiab uf guhnh Nurherzh. 17 Amatziah ·- ben - joash, however, reigned over judah after the death of jhoash-ben—Ahaziah king of Israel for

18 fifteen years. But the other affairs of 20 Amatziah are written inthe history of events in the period ofthe Kings of Judah. When they conspired against him in ]erusalem the lied to Lakish. But they sent after him to Lakish and murdered him there. They, however, carried him with the David. (ac. 810.) Qgurinly Qzigxw alter gxthab. The people of judah took Azariah, 21 who was ten years old, and crowned him in place of his father Amatziah. He built Ailath and restored it to judah. The king afterwards slept with his fathers. (ac. 825.) §zr¤knm-lmn·§¤a¤l; iizigns nlm: israel. In the fifteenth year of Amatziah—

ben—]hoash, king of Judah, ]erabam· ben—]hoash, king of Israel, began to reign in Shoxheron for forty-one years. But he did wrong in the sight of the EvER—L1vING. He turned not from any of the sins 0f]erabam—ben·Nebat, who caused the sin of Israel. He re-· stored the boundaries of Israel from Khamath to the Sea of the Desert, according to the promise of the Even-Lxvme Gon of Israel, which He promised by means of }onah—ben— Amathai, the Preacher, who came from Gath·-Khefer. For the Evan- LIVING pitied the iznmeasurable miseries of Israel both without and within, when there was no ease for Israel. The Evan-Lrvmo had not yet decided to blot the name of Israel from beneath the heavens, therefore He rescued it by the hand of ]erabam— ben-Joash. For the other affairs of jerabam,

and all that he did, how he warred, and how he recaptured Damascus and 22 24 26 28 Khamath of judah to Israel, theyare recorded in the history of events of the days of the kings of Israel. Then eg jerabam slept with his fathers-——with the kings of Israel-··and Zakariah his son reigned after him. (ac. 810.) 3;zriab It-signs in Quhaly. In the seventeenth year of jerabam 15 king of Israel, Azeriah-ben—Amatziah, king of judah, began to reign. He was sixteen years old at his corona- tion, and reigned 1'ifty~two years in ]erusalem, and his mother's name was jekaliah of jerusalem ; and he did right in the eyes of the Even-1.1vmo_, as Amatziah his father did. Yet he did not throw down the Columns, the people still sacrificed and offered 393