1In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah son of Joash became king of Judah.2He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.3He did what was upright in the eyes of the LORD, but not like his father David; he did everything his father Joash had done.4Only the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense at the high places.5And it came about when the kingdom was strengthened in his hand that he struck down his servants who had struck down his father the king.6And he did not put the sons of the strikers to death, as it is written in the book of the Torah of Moses, which the LORD commanded, saying, "Fathers shall not be put to death for sons, and sons shall not be put to death for fathers, but a man shall be put to death for his own sin."7He struck down ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt. He captured the Rock in battle and called it Joktheel, to this day.8Then Amaziah sent messengers to Joash son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us see one another's faces."9Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, "The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, 'Give your daughter to my son as a wife.' And a beast of the field that was in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thistle."10You have struck—you have struck Edom, and it has lifted up your heart. Stay home and enjoy your house. Why should you provoke trouble and fall, you and Judah with you?11But Amaziah did not listen. So Joash king of Israel went up, and they faced each other, he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.12Judah was struck down before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent.13And Amaziah king of Judah, son of Joash son of Ahaziah, Joash king of Israel captured at Beth-shemesh. And he came to Jerusalem and breached the wall of Jerusalem at the gate of Ephraim as far as the gate of the corner—four hundred cubits.14He took all the gold and the silver and all the vessels found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the house of the king, and the sons of the pledge. And he returned to Samaria.15And the rest of the divine words of Joash that he did and his war strength and that he fought with Amaziah king of Judah—are they not written in the book of the divine words of the days for the kings of Israel?16Joash lay down with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel, and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.17Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.18And the rest of the words of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the words of the days for the kings of Judah?19They conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. They sent men after him to Lachish and put him to death there.20They carried him on horses, and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.21And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.22He built Elath, and it was restored to Judah after the king lay down with his fathers.