2 Kings 13:1-14:28
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In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned seventeen years.
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He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, m which he made Israel to sin; he did not depart from them.
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n And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them continually into the hand of o Hazael king of Syria and into the hand of p Ben-hadad the son of Hazael.
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Then Jehoahaz q sought the favor of the Lord, and the Lord listened to him, r for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.
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(Therefore the Lord gave Israel s a savior, so that they escaped from the hand of the Syrians, and the people of Israel lived in t their homes as formerly.
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Nevertheless, they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, m which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and u the Asherah also remained in Samaria.)
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For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust v at threshing.
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Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
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So Jehoahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria, and Joash his son reigned in his place.
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In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned sixteen years.
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He also did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, m which he made Israel to sin, but he walked in them.
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w Now the rest of the acts of Joash x and all that he did, y and the might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
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So Joash slept with his fathers, and Jeroboam sat on his throne. And Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
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Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, crying, z "My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!"
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And Elisha said to him, "Take a bow and arrows." So he took a bow and arrows.
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Then he said to the king of Israel, "Draw the bow," and he drew it. And Elisha laid his hands on the king's hands.
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And he said, "Open the window eastward," and he opened it. Then Elisha said, "Shoot," and he shot. And he said, "The Lord's arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Syria! For you shall fight the Syrians in a Aphek until you have made an end of them."
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And he said, "Take the arrows," and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, "Strike the ground with them." And he struck three times and stopped.
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Then b the man of God was angry with him and said, "You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck down Syria until you had made an end of it, but now you will strike down Syria only c three times."
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So Elisha died, and they buried him. Now bands of d Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year.
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And as a man was being buried, behold, a marauding band was seen and the man was thrown into the grave of Elisha, and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood on his feet.
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e Now Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
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f But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion on them, g and he turned toward them, h because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, nor has he cast them from his presence until now.
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When Hazael king of Syria died, Ben-hadad his son became king in his place.
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Then Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again from Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities i that he had taken from Jehoahaz his father in war. j Three times Joash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel.
2 Kings 14
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k In the l second year of Joash the son of Joahaz, king of Israel, m Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, began to reign.
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He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.
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And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, yet not like David his father. He did in all things as Joash his father had done.
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n But the high places were not removed; o the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.
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And as soon as the royal power was p firmly in his hand, he struck down his servants q who had struck down the king his father.
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But he did not put to death the children of the murderers, according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the Lord commanded, r "Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. But each one shall die for his own sin."
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s He struck down ten thousand Edomites in t the Valley of Salt and took u Sela by storm, and called it v Joktheel, which is its name to this day.
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w Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, x let us look one another in the face."
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And Jehoash king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, y "A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, 'Give your daughter to my son for a wife,' and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.
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You have indeed z struck down Edom, a and your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory, and stay at home, for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?"
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But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah x faced one another in battle at b Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
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And Judah was defeated by Israel, c and every man fled to his home.
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And Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for four hundred cubits, from d the Ephraim Gate to e the Corner Gate.
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And he seized f all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king's house, also hostages, and he returned to Samaria.
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g Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash that he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
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And Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel, and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.
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h Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.
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Now the rest of the deeds of Amaziah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
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And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to i Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.
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And they brought him on horses; and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
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And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
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He built j Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.
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In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years.
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And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, k which he made Israel to sin.
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l He restored the border of Israel m from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of n the Arabah, according to the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant o Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from p Gath-hepher.
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For the Lord q saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, r for there was none left, bond or free, and there was none to help Israel.
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s But the Lord had not said that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, so he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
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Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he restored t Damascus and u Hamath to Judah in Israel, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
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1 Kings 14:16
And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin.
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Judges 2:14
So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.
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2 Kings 8:12
And Hazael said, "Why does my lord weep?" He answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women.
1 Kings 19:17
And the one who escapes from the sword of Hazael shall Jehu put to death, and the one who escapes from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha put to death.
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2 Kings 13:24 - 25
When Hazael king of Syria died, Ben-hadad his son became king in his place.
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Exodus 32:11
But Moses implored the Lord his God and said, "O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
Psalms 78:34
When he killed them, they sought him; they repented and sought God earnestly.
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2 Kings 14:26
For the Lord saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, for there was none left, bond or free, and there was none to help Israel.
Exodus 3:7
Then the Lord said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings.
Exodus 3:9
And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
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Judges 3:9
But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
Nehemiah 9:27
Therefore you gave them into the hand of their enemies, who made them suffer. And in the time of their suffering they cried out to you and you heard them from heaven, and according to your great mercies you gave them saviors who saved them from the hand of their enemies.
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2 Samuel 18:17
And they took Absalom and threw him into a great pit in the forest and raised over him a very great heap of stones. And all Israel fled every one to his own home.
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2 Kings 13:2
He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin; he did not depart from them.
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1 Kings 16:33
And Ahab made an Asherah. Ahab did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
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Amos 1:3
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.
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2 Kings 13:2
He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin; he did not depart from them.
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2 Kings 14:15
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash that he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
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2 Kings 13:14 - 19
Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, crying, "My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!
2 Kings 13:25
Then Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again from Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from Jehoahaz his father in war. Three times Joash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel.
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2 Kings 14:8 - 14
Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us look one another in the face.
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2 Kings 2:12
And Elisha saw it and he cried, "My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" And he saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.
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1 Kings 20:26
In the spring, Ben-hadad mustered the Syrians and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.
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Deuteronomy 33:1
This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death.
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2 Kings 13:25
Then Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again from Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from Jehoahaz his father in war. Three times Joash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel.
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2 Kings 1:1
After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.
2 Kings 3:7
And he went and sent word to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, "The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to battle against Moab?" And he said, "I will go. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.
2 Kings 24:2
And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldeans and bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by his servants the prophets.
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2 Kings 8:12
And Hazael said, "Why does my lord weep?" He answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women.
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2 Kings 14:27
But the Lord had not said that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, so he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
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Exodus 2:24 - 25
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
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Exodus 32:13
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.'
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2 Kings 10:32
In those days the Lord began to cut off parts of Israel. Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel:
2 Kings 14:25
He restored the border of Israel from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath-hepher.
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2 Kings 13:18 - 19
And he said, "Take the arrows," and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, "Strike the ground with them." And he struck three times and stopped.
Amos 1:4
So I will send a fire upon the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.
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2 Kings 14:1 - 6
In the second year of Joash the son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, began to reign.
2 Chronicles 25:1 - 4
Amaziah 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.
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2 Kings 13:10
In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned sixteen years.
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2 Kings 12:21
It was Jozacar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, who struck him down, so that he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
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2 Kings 12:3
Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings on the high places.
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2 Kings 16:4
And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
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2 Kings 15:19
Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold on the royal power.
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2 Kings 12:20
His servants arose and made a conspiracy and struck down Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
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Deuteronomy 24:16
Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.
Jeremiah 31:30
But everyone shall die for his own sin. Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Ezekiel 18:4
Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.
Ezekiel 18:20
The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
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2 Chronicles 25:11
But Amaziah took courage and led out his people and went to the Valley of Salt and struck down 10,000 men of Seir.
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2 Samuel 8:13
And David made a name for himself when he returned from striking down 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
1 Chronicles 18:12
And Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, killed 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
Psalms 60:1
O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses; you have been angry; oh, restore us.
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Isaiah 16:1
Send the lamb to the ruler of the land, from Sela, by way of the desert, to the mount of the daughter of Zion.
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Joshua 15:38
Dilean, Mizpeh, Joktheel.
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2 Kings 14:8 - 14
Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us look one another in the face.
2 Chronicles 25:17 - 24
Then Amaziah king of Judah took counsel and sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us look one another in the face.
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2 Kings 23:29
In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. King Josiah went to meet him, and Pharaoh Neco killed him at Megiddo, as soon as he saw him.
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Judges 9:8 - 15
The trees once went out to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.
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2 Kings 14:7
He struck down ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm, and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this day.
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Deuteronomy 8:14
Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget th...
2 Chronicles 26:16
But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his d...
2 Chronicles 32:25
But Hezekiah did not make return according to t...
Ezekiel 28:2
Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus say...
Ezekiel 28:5
By your great wisdom in your trade you have inc...
Ezekiel 28:17
Your heart was proud because of your beauty; yo...
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2 Kings 14:8
Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us look one another in the face.
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Joshua 15:10
And the boundary circles west of Baalah to Mount Seir, passes along to the northern shoulder of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), and goes down to Beth-shemesh and passes along by Timnah.
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1 Samuel 4:10
So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled, every man to his home. And there was a very great slaughter, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers.
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Nehemiah 8:16
So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each on his roof, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at the Water Gate and in the square at the Gate of Ephraim.
Nehemiah 12:39
And above the Gate of Ephraim, and by the Gate of Yeshanah, and by the Fish Gate and the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate; and they came to a halt at the Gate of the Guard.
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2 Chronicles 25:23
And Joash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for 400 cubits, from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate.
2 Chronicles 26:9
Moreover, Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate and at the Valley Gate and at the Angle, and fortified them.
Jeremiah 31:38
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when the city shall be rebuilt for the Lord from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.
Zechariah 14:10
The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain aloft on its site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses.
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2 Kings 12:18
Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred gifts that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred gifts, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of the Lord and of the king's house, and sent these to Hazael king of Syria. Then Hazael went away from Jerusalem.
1 Kings 7:51
Thus all the work that King Solomon did on the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and stored them in the treasuries of the house of the Lord.
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2 Kings 13:12 - 13
Now the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, and the might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
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2 Kings 14:17 - 22
Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.
2 Chronicles 25:25 - 26:2
Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.
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Joshua 10:3
So Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying.
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2 Kings 16:6
At that time Rezin the king of Syria recovered Elath for Syria and drove the men of Judah from Elath, and the Edomites came to Elath, where they dwell to this day.
Deuteronomy 2:8
So we went on, away from our brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road from Elath and Ezion-geber. "And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab.
2 Chronicles 8:17
Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and Eloth on the shore of the sea, in the land of Edom.
2 Chronicles 26:2
He built Eloth and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.
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1 Kings 14:16
And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin.
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2 Kings 10:32
In those days the Lord began to cut off parts of Israel. Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel:
2 Kings 13:25
Then Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again from Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from Jehoahaz his father in war. Three times Joash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel.
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1 Kings 8:65
So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days.
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Deuteronomy 3:17
The Arabah also, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.
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Jonah 1:1
Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying.
Matthew 12:39 - 40
But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
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Joshua 19:13
From there it passes along on the east toward the sunrise to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin, and going on to Rimmon it bends toward Neah.
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Exodus 3:7
Then the Lord said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings.
2 Kings 13:4
Then Jehoahaz sought the favor of the Lord, and the Lord listened to him, for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.
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Deuteronomy 32:36
For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone and there is none remaining, bond or free.
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2 Kings 13:5
(Therefore the Lord gave Israel a savior, so that they escaped from the hand of the Syrians, and the people of Israel lived in their homes as formerly.
2 Kings 13:23
But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion on them, and he turned toward them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, nor has he cast them from his presence until now.
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2 Samuel 8:6
Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Syrians became servants to David and brought tribute. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
1 Kings 11:24
And he gathered men about him and became leader of a marauding band, after the killing by David. And they went to Damascus and lived there and made him king in Damascus.
1 Chronicles 18:5 - 6
And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck down 22,000 men of the Syrians.
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2 Chronicles 8:3
And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and took it.
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