2 Raja-raja 14

Bagian: Amazia menjadi raja atas kerajaan Yehuda

1 Pada tahun kedua masa pemerintahan Yoas anak Yoahas di Israel, Amazia anak raja Yehuda yang juga bernama Yoas menjadi raja atas kerajaan Yehuda. 2 Dia naik takhta pada umur dua puluh lima tahun dan memerintah selama dua puluh sembilan tahun. Ibukotanya di Yerusalem. Ibunya bernama Yoadan, dari Yerusalem. 3 Raja Amazia melakukan apa yang benar di mata TUHAN seperti Yoas ayahnya, tetapi tidak sebanding dengan Daud, leluhur mereka. 4 Amazia tidak menyingkirkan tempat-tempat penyembahan yang dibangun rakyat di bukit-bukit. Mereka tetap mempersembahkan kurban dan membakar dupa di sana. 5 Segera setelah kedudukannya sebagai raja sudah aman, Amazia menghukum mati pejabat-pejabat yang membunuh ayahnya. 6 Tetapi anak-anak para pembunuh itu tidak dihukum mati, karena Amazia mengikuti perintah TUHAN di dalam kitab Taurat, “Seorang ayah tidak boleh dihukum mati karena kejahatan yang dilakukan anaknya. Dan seorang anak tidak boleh dihukum mati karena kejahatan yang dilakukan ayahnya. Yang dihukum mati adalah pelaku kejahatan itu sendiri.” 7 Beberapa waktu sesudah itu, Amazia memimpin pasukan Yehuda dalam kemenangan atas pasukan Edom di Lembah Asin, di mana mereka membunuh sepuluh ribu musuh. Mereka merebut kota Sela dan mengganti namanya menjadi Yoktel. Itulah nama yang dipakai sampai kitab ini ditulis. 8 Amazia lalu mengirim pesan kepada Yoas, raja Israel (anak Yoahas dan cucu Yehu). Isi pesannya, “Mari kita mengadu kekuatan perang.” 9 Yoas mengirim balasan berupa perumpamaan, “Ada cerita, di pegunungan Libanon, tumbuhan semak berduri mengirim pesan kepada pohon aras, ‘Berikanlah anak perempuanmu menjadi menantuku.’ Tetapi kemudian, ketika seekor binatang liar lewat, semak duri itu terinjak dengan mudahnya sampai rata dengan tanah. 10 “Engkau memang sudah mengalahkan Edom, karena itu engkau terlalu berbangga diri. Nikmatilah kebanggaanmu itu di rumah saja. Tidak perlu memancing masalah yang akan berakhir dengan malapetaka dan mencelakakan engkau beserta seluruh rakyat Yehuda.” 11 Akan tetapi, Amazia menolak peringatan itu. Maka Raja Yoas pun menghadapinya, dan mereka bertempur di kota Bet Semes di Yehuda. 12 Pasukan Israel mengalahkan Yehuda hingga semua prajuritnya kabur ke rumah masing-masing. 13 Raja Amazia ditangkap oleh Yoas. Lalu Yoas membawanya ke Yerusalem, di mana Ahazia terpaksa menyaksikan ketika pasukan Yoas merobohkan temboknya sepanjang kurang lebih dua ratus meter, dari Pintu Gerbang Efraim sampai ke Pintu Gerbang Sudut. 14 Yoas merampas semua emas, perak, dan semua perkakas yang berharga di rumah TUHAN dan istana raja. Dia juga menawan beberapa orang sebagai sandera, lalu kembali ke Samaria.

Bagian: Kesudahan kerajaan Yoas dan Amazia

15 Kisah selebihnya tentang Raja Yoas, termasuk tindakan-tindakan yang diambilnya, keberhasilannya, dan pertempurannya dengan Amazia raja Yehuda, dicatat dalam kitab sejarah raja-raja Israel. 16 Yoas meninggal dunia dan dikuburkan di pemakaman raja-raja Israel di Samaria. Lalu Yerobeam anaknya menggantikan dia sebagai raja. 17 Setelah Yoas mati, Amazia raja Yehuda masih hidup lima belas tahun lagi. 18 Kisah selebihnya tentang Amazia, termasuk tindakan-tindakan yang diambilnya, dicatat dalam kitab sejarah raja-raja Yehuda. 19 Beberapa orang di Yerusalem bersekongkol untuk menyingkirkan Amazia. Dia pun melarikan diri ke kota Lakis. Tetapi mereka memburunya dan membunuh dia di sana. 20 Jenazahnya diangkut dengan kuda dan dia dikuburkan di pemakaman raja-raja di Kota Daud.

Bagian: Uzia menjadi raja atas kerajaan Yehuda

21 Uzia anak Amazia saat itu berusia enam belas tahun. Rakyat Yehuda mengangkat dia sebagai raja menggantikan ayahnya. 22 Uzia merebut kembali kota Elat milik kerajaan Yehuda, lalu membangunnya kembali. Beberapa waktu kemudian, dia meninggal dunia.

Bagian: Yerobeam anak Yoas menjadi raja atas kerajaan Israel

23 Pada tahun kelima belas masa pemerintahan Amazia di Yehuda, Yerobeam anak Yoas menjadi raja di Israel. Dia memerintah selama empat puluh satu tahun. Ibukotanya di Samaria. 24 Dia melakukan apa yang jahat di mata TUHAN dengan mengikuti dosa-dosa Yerobeam anak Nebat yang menjerumuskan rakyat Israel. 25 Dia merebut kembali daerah perbatasan milik kerajaan Israel, mulai dari jalan yang menuju ke kota Hamat sampai ke Laut Mati. Hal ini terjadi sesuai dengan pesan TUHAN Allah Israel yang disampaikan melalui nabi-Nya, Yunus anak Amitai, dari kota Gat Hefer. 26 TUHAN memberikan keberhasilan itu karena Dia melihat betapa beratnya penderitaan semua orang Israel, baik orang kecil maupun besar, akibat penindasan bangsa-bangsa musuh, tanpa ada seorang pun yang menolong mereka. 27 Lagipula, TUHAN sudah berjanji bahwa Dia tidak akan menghapus bangsa Israel dari muka bumi. Itu sebabnya Dia menyelamatkan mereka melalui Yerobeam anak Yoas. 28 Kisah selebihnya tentang Yerobeam ini, termasuk tindakan-tindakan yang diambilnya, keberhasilannya, kemenangannya dalam perang, serta peristiwa penting ketika dia merebut kembali kota Damsik dan Hamat milik kerajaan Yehuda, semuanya itu dicatat dalam kitab sejarah raja-raja Israel. 29 Yerobeam meninggal dunia dan dikuburkan di pemakaman raja-raja Israel. Lalu Zakaria anaknya menggantikan dia sebagai raja.

1 In the second year of Joash, son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah began to reign. 2 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. 3 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, yet not like David his father. He did according to all that Joash his father had done. 4 However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. 5 As soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, he killed his servants who had slain the king his father, 6 but the children of the murderers he didn’t put to death, according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die 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 son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let’s look one another in the face.” 9 Jehoash the 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.’ Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle. 10 You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?” 11 But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah. 12 Judah was defeated by Israel; and each man fled to his tent. 13 Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh and came to Jerusalem, then broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits. 14 He took all the gold and silver and all the vessels that were found in Yahweh’s house and in the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria. 15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 16 Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place. 17 Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, fifteen years. 18 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 19 They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there. 20 They brought him on horses, and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in David’s city. 21 All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah. 22 He built Elath and restored it to Judah. After that the king slept with his fathers. 23 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 for forty-one years. 24 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. 25 He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to Yahweh, the God of Israel’s word, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath Hepher. 26 For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter for all, slave and free; and there was no helper for Israel. 27 Yahweh didn’t say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash. 28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, for Israel, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 29 Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son reigned in his place.