Second Book of Chronicles - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 995

16 thirty years old at his death. And they buried him in the City of David, with the Kings,—··beca.use he had benefited Israel, both towards GOD and His House. Wiz giuhlzx pzrsunhz the §iing iu 18 rzsiurz ihulairg. But after the death of jhoiada, the

Nobles of judea came and flattered the King, and the King listened to them, and they forsook the House of the Evmz~1.1v1Nc; Gon of their fathers, and served the Idols of LUST, and other Idols ; so anger came upon judea and jerusalem, because of their sins.- However HE sent Preachers to turn them back to the Ev1zR·L1v1NG and to warn them, but they would not listen. Z2l:nrinl;’s mnrxziztg against Uhnlm 20 22 mm mul: nf Wnxxrtizrs. Consequently, the Spirit of God

jhoiada the Priest, and he stood up before the Parliament and said to GOD asks this I Why do you Evsxmzviuo? You do not prosper! Because you have abandoned the Lorz1>,——-He will abandon you l' him, and murdered him by stoning, Court of the House of the EVER- irg, mtu his jiturhnr hn tbz Qing

clothed itself in Zekhriah, - ben- transgress the Instructions of the They however conspired against

by command of the King, in the LIVING !—for jhoash the King did not remember the kindness that jhoiada his father had shown to him, but murdered his son,who as he died The EVER-LIVXNG sees, and will enquire for it l ’ (840 B.C.) And indeed on the revolution of a

year, the Army of Aram came up against him, and entered judea and jerusalem, and ruined the great Nobles of the People, with the Parliament, and sent all the booty to the King of Damask, although the Aramite army came with a small number of men, yet,_ the Evan-Lrv1NG gave a very large force into its power, because they had abandoned their EVER- Lxvmo Gon.~——'I`hus justice was exe- cuted upon jhoash. And when they retired, leaving him in many troubles, his Ministers conspired against him, .on account of the blood ofthe son of jhoiada the Priest, and murdered him on his bed. Thus he died, and they buried him in the City of David; but he was not buried in the Tombs of the Kings. The following were the conspirators against him :—— Zabad,-ben—Shimath, the Amonite ;

and jozabad, ~ ben — Shimerith, the Moabite. 26

But about his sons, and the great 27 load upon him, and his repairing of the House of Gob, can be seen related in the record books of the Kings. (839 ac.) Gb: llzign uf lmnginb. His sou Amaziah reigned after

him, who executed his father's mur- dererst Amaziah was twenty-tive years old 25 when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in jeru— salem. His mother’s name was jhoadan, of jerusalem. I-Ie did right in the eyes of the EvER·L1vmG, yet not with a constant heart. When he became secure in the Government, however, he slew those Ministers who had assaulted the King, his father, but he did not kill their children, for it is written in the Book of the Laws of Moses, as the EvER—L1v1NG com- You shall not kill the fathers on account of their children; nor the children on account of their fathers; but each man shall be put to death for his own crime. itnagiuly rails n iirfurmaturg Qnrlintnmti. Amaziah then assembled judea,

and organized the Ancestral Houses, with Generals and Captains for all judah and Benjamin, Regimenting them from the age of twenty years and upwards, and formed from them three hundred thousand troops to go out for war, trained to spear and shield. He also hired from Israel a hundred thousand trained soldiers, for a hundred talents of silver, but a Man of Gob came and said to the Israel must not go out with you in war; for the Evan-Livme is not with Israel, or any of the sons_of Ephraim. Therefore if you go out 8 with them made strong for battle, 00 R