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23
|2 Reyes 13:23|
But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion and showed concern for them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. To this day he has been unwilling to destroy them or banish them from his presence.
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24
|2 Reyes 13:24|
Hazael king of Aram died, and Ben-Hadad his son succeeded him as king.
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25
|2 Reyes 13:25|
Then Jehoash son of Jehoahaz recaptured from Ben-Hadad son of Hazael the towns he had taken in battle from his father Jehoahaz. Three times Jehoash defeated him, and so he recovered the Israelite towns.
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|2 Reyes 14:1|
In the second year of Jehoash [Hebrew Joash, a variant of Jehoash; also in verses 13, 23 and 27] son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah began to reign.
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2
|2 Reyes 14:2|
He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddin; she was from Jerusalem.
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3
|2 Reyes 14:3|
He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father David had done. In everything he followed the example of his father Joash.
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4
|2 Reyes 14:4|
The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
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5
|2 Reyes 14:5|
After the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king.
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6
|2 Reyes 14:6|
Yet he did not put the sons of the assassins to death, in accordance with what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses where the LORD commanded: “Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sins.” [Deut. 24:16]
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|2 Reyes 14:7|
He was the one who defeated ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and captured Sela in battle, calling it Joktheel, the name it has to this day.
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