English Bible Presentation Sharing - 2-Kings Book, chapter 14, verse 41 in Lxxen Version

2 Kings 14 : 1 (LXXEN)

In the second year of Joas the son of Joachaz king of Israel, did Amessias also the son of Joas the king of Juda

Gr. reigned

begin to reign.

2 Kings 14 : 2 (LXXEN)

Gr. a son of 25 years in his reigning

Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Joadim of Jerusalem.

2 Kings 14 : 3 (LXXEN)

And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not as David his father: he did according to all things that his father Joas did.

2 Kings 14 : 4 (LXXEN)

Only he removed not the high places: as yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.

2 Kings 14 : 5 (LXXEN)

And it came to pass when the kingdom was established in his hand, that he

Gr. smote

slew his servants that had

Gr. smitten

slain the king his father.

2 Kings 14 : 6 (LXXEN)

But he slew not the sons of those that had slain him; according as it is written in the book of the laws of Moses, as the Lord gave commandment, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, and the children shall not be put to death for the fathers; but every one

Or, be put to death, etc.

shall die for his own sins.

2 Kings 14 : 7 (LXXEN)

He smote of Edom ten thousand in the

The Gr. is from xlm-ygb Keri

valley of salt, and took

Heb. Selah

the Rock in the war, and called its name Jethoel until this day.

2 Kings 14 : 8 (LXXEN)

Then Amessias sent messengers to Joas son of Joachaz son of Ju king of Israel, saying, Come, let us

Gr. appear to faces

look one another in the face.

2 Kings 14 : 9 (LXXEN)

And Joas the king of Israel sent to Amessias king of Juda, saying, The thistle that was in Libanus sent to the cedar that was in Libanus, saying, Give my daughter to thy son to wife: and the wild beasts of the field that were in Libanus passed by and trod down the thistle.

2 Kings 14 : 10 (LXXEN)

Thou hast smitten and wounded Edom, and thy heart has lifted thee up:

Gr. glorify thyself sitting in thy house

stay at home and glorify thyself; for wherefore art thou quarrelsome to thy hurt? So both thou wilt fall and Juda with thee.

2 Kings 14 : 11 (LXXEN)

Nevertheless Amessias hearkened not: so Joas king of Israel went up, and he and Amessias king of Juda looked one another in the face in Baethsamys of Juda.

2 Kings 14 : 12 (LXXEN)

And Juda

Gr. fell

was overthrown before Israel, and every man fled to his tent.

2 Kings 14 : 13 (LXXEN)

And Joas king of Israel took Amessias the son of Joas the son of Ochozias, in Baethsamys; and he came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, beginning at the gate of Ephraim as far as the gate of the corner, four hundred cubits.

2 Kings 14 : 14 (LXXEN)

And he took the gold, and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and the

Gr. and Heb. lit. sons of exchange

hostages, and returned to Samaria.

2 Kings 14 : 15 (LXXEN)

And the rest of the acts of Joas, even all that he did in his might, how he warred with Amessias king of Juda, are not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kings 14 : 16 (LXXEN)

And Joas slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kings 14 : 17 (LXXEN)

And Amessias the son of Joas king of Juda lived after the death of Joas son of Joachaz king of Israel fifteen years.

2 Kings 14 : 18 (LXXEN)

And the rest of the acts of Amessias, and all that he did, are not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?

2 Kings 14 : 19 (LXXEN)

And they

Gr. conspired with a conspiracy

formed a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachis: and they sent after him to Lachis, and slew him there.

2 Kings 14 : 20 (LXXEN)

And they

Gr. lifted him

brought him upon horses; and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

2 Kings 14 : 21 (LXXEN)

And all the people of Juda took Azarias, and he was

Gr. a son of 16 years

sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amessias.

2 Kings 14 : 22 (LXXEN)

He built Æloth, and restored it to Juda, after the king slept with his fathers.

2 Kings 14 : 23 (LXXEN)

In the fifteenth year of Amessias son of Joas king of Juda

Gr. reigned

began Jeroboam son of Joas to reign over Israel in Samaria forty and one years.

2 Kings 14 : 24 (LXXEN)

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who led Israel to sin.

2 Kings 14 : 25 (LXXEN)

He recovered the coast of Israel from the entering in of Æmath to the sea of

i. e. the plain

Araba, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he spoke by

Gr. the hand of his servant

his servant Jonas the son of Amathi, the prophet of Gethchopher.

2 Kings 14 : 26 (LXXEN)

For the Lord saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, and that they were few in number, straitened and in want, and

Or, left alone

destitute, and Israel had no helper.

2 Kings 14 : 27 (LXXEN)

And the Lord

Or, said not that he would

said that he would not blot out the seed of Israel from under heaven; so he delivered them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joas.

2 Kings 14 : 28 (LXXEN)

And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did, and his mighty deeds, which he achieved in war, and how he recovered Damascus and Æmath to Juda in Israel, are not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kings 14 : 29 (LXXEN)

And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zacharias his son reigned in his stead.