Bible Cross References
A. M. 3166. B.C. 838. Now it came
2 Kings 14:5-22
5
And it happened, as soon as the kingdom had been secured in his hand, that he struck his servants who had killed his father the king.
6
But the children of the murderers he did not execute, according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, in which Jehovah had commanded, saying, Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their fathers; but a person shall be put to death for his own sin.
7
He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel to this day.
8
Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.
9
And Jehoash 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 wife; and a wild beast that was in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thistle.
10
You have attacked to strike Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Glory in that, and stay at your house; why stir yourself up over evil so that you fall, you and Judah with you?
11
But Amaziah would not listen. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went out; so he and Amaziah king of Judah looked each other in the face at Beth Shemesh of Judah.
12
And Judah was struck down before Israel, and every man fled to his tent.
13
And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh; and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate; four hundred cubits.
14
And he took all the gold and silver, all the articles that were found in the house of Jehovah and in the treasuries of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
15
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did; 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.
16
So Jehoash rested with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. And Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.
17
And Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.
18
Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah.
19
And they conspired treason against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there.
20
And they brought him on horses, and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the City of David.
21
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
22
He built Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king rested with his fathers.
he slew
2 Chronicles 24:25
And when they had withdrawn from him (for they left him severely wounded), his own servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed. So he died. And they buried him in the City of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.
2 Chronicles 24:26
These are the ones who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.
Genesis 9:5
Surely the blood of your souls will I require; at the hand of every living thing will I require it, and at the hand of man. At the hand of every man's brother I will require the soul of man.
Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God He made man.
Exodus 21:14
But if a man comes presumptuously against his neighbor, to kill him by deceit, you shall take him even from My altar, that he may die.
Numbers 35:31-33
31
Moreover you shall take no ransom for the soul of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall be executed to death.
32
And you shall take no ransom for him to flee to his city of refuge, to return to dwell in the land until the death of the priest.
33
Thus you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood pollutes the land. And no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who sheds it.