2 Chronicles 25:27

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now from the time when Amaziah gave up worshipping the Lord, they made secret designs against him in Jerusalem; and he went in flight to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him and put him to death there.

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  • Josh 10:31 : 31 Then Joshua and all Israel with him went on from Libnah to Lachish, and took up their position against it and made an attack on it,
  • 2 Kgs 14:19 : 19 Now they made a secret design against him in Jerusalem; and he went in flight to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.
  • 2 Chr 15:2 : 2 And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.
  • 2 Chr 24:25 : 25 And when they had gone away from him, (for he was broken with disease,) his servants made a secret design against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they put him to death on his bed; and they put his body into the earth in the town of David, but not in the resting-place of the kings.

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  • 2 Kgs 14:17-21
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    92%

    17Amaziah, the son of Joash, king of Judah, went on living for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.

    18And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

    19Now they made a secret design against him in Jerusalem; and he went in flight to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.

    20And they took his body on horseback and put it into the earth with his fathers in Jerusalem, the town of David.

    21Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

  • 2 Chr 25:28
    80%

    28And they took his body on horseback and put it into the earth with his fathers in the town of David.

  • 2 Kgs 12:20-21
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    79%

    20And his servants made a secret design and put Joash to death at the house of Millo on the way down to Silla.

    21And Jozacar, the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad, the son of Shomer, his servants, came to him and put him to death; and they put him into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; and Amaziah his son became king in his place.

  • 2 Chr 25:25-26
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    77%

    25Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, went on living for fifteen years after the death of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.

    26Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, are they not recorded in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?

  • 2 Chr 25:13-17
    5 verses
    75%

    13But the men of the band which Amaziah sent back and did not take with him to the fight, made attacks on the towns of Judah from Samaria to Beth-horon, putting to death three thousand of their people and taking away a great store of their goods.

    14Now when Amaziah came back from the destruction of the Edomites, he took the gods of the children of Seir and made them his gods, worshipping them and burning offerings before them.

    15And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against Amaziah, and he sent a prophet to him, who said, Why have you gone after the gods of the people who have not given their people salvation from your hands?

    16But while he was talking to him the king said to him, Have we made you one of the king's government? say no more, or it will be the cause of your death. Then the prophet gave up protesting, and said, It is clear to me that God's purpose is your destruction, because you have done this and have not given ear to my words.

    17Then Amaziah, king of Judah, acting on the suggestion of his servants, sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us have a meeting face to face.

  • 2 Chr 24:25-27
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    74%

    25And when they had gone away from him, (for he was broken with disease,) his servants made a secret design against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they put him to death on his bed; and they put his body into the earth in the town of David, but not in the resting-place of the kings.

    26Those who made designs against him were Zabad, the son of Shimeath, an Ammonite woman, and Jehozabad, the son of Shimrith, a Moabite woman.

    27Now the story of his sons, and all the words said by the prophet against him, and the building up again of the Lord's house, are recorded in the account in the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son became king in his place.

  • 2 Chr 25:23
    73%

    23And Joash, king of Israel, made Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, prisoner at Beth-shemesh, and took him to Jerusalem; and he had the wall of Jerusalem pulled down from the doorway of Ephraim to the doorway in the angle, four hundred cubits.

  • 2 Chr 25:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10So Amaziah, separating the armed band which had come to him from Ephraim, sent them back again; which made them very angry with Judah, and they went back burning with wrath.

    11Then Amaziah took heart, and went out at the head of his people and came to the Valley of Salt, where he put to death ten thousand of the children of Seir;

  • 2 Chr 25:19-21
    3 verses
    73%

    19You say, See, I have overcome Edom; and your heart is lifted up with pride: now keep in your country; why do you make causes of trouble, putting yourself, and Judah with you, in danger of downfall?

    20But Amaziah gave no attention; and this was the purpose of God, so that he might give them up into the hands of Joash, because they had gone after the gods of Edom.

    21And so Joash, king of Israel, went up; and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, came face to face at Beth-shemesh in Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 14:11
    72%

    11But Amaziah gave no attention. So Jehoash, king of Israel, went up, and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, came face to face at Beth-shemesh, which is in Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 9:27
    72%

    27Now when Ahaziah, king of Judah, saw this, he went in flight by the way of the garden house. And Jehu came after him and said, Put him to death in the same way; and they gave him a death-wound in his carriage, on the slope up to Gur, by Ibleam; and he went in flight to Megiddo, where death came to him.

  • 2 Chr 33:24-25
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    72%

    24And his servants made a secret design against him, and put him to death in his house.

    25But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against King Amon, and made his son Josiah king in his place.

  • 2 Kgs 21:23-24
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    72%

    23And the servants of Amon made a secret design against him, and put the king to death in his house.

    24But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against the king, and made Josiah his son king in his place.

  • 2 Kgs 14:13
    71%

    13And Jehoash, king of Israel, made Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah, prisoner at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and had the wall of Jerusalem pulled down from the doorway of Ephraim to the door in the angle, four hundred cubits.

  • 2 Chr 23:15
    71%

    15So they put their hands on her, and she went to the king's house by the doorway of the king's horses; and there she was put to death.

  • 2 Chr 25:1-2
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    71%

    1Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

    2He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but his heart was not completely true to the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 14:1
    71%

    1In the second year of Joash, son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah, the son of Joash, became king of Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 14:15
    70%

    15Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash, and his power, and how he went to war with Amaziah, king of Judah, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

  • 2 Kgs 9:23
    70%

    23Then Joram, turning his horses in flight, said to Ahaziah, Broken faith, O Ahaziah!

  • 2 Kgs 15:10
    70%

    10And Shallum, the son of Jabesh, made a secret design against him, and, attacking him in Ibleam, put him to death and became king in his place.

  • 2 Chr 28:5
    70%

    5So the Lord his God gave him up into the hands of the king of Aram; and they overcame him, and took away a great number of his people as prisoners to Damascus. Then he was given into the hands of the king of Israel, who sent great destruction on him.

  • 2 Chr 24:21-22
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    70%

    21But when they had made a secret design against him, he was stoned with stones, by the king's order, in the outer square of the Lord's house.

    22So King Joash did not keep in mind how good Jehoiada his father had been to him, but put his son to death. And in the hour of his death he said, May the Lord see it and take payment!

  • 2 Kgs 13:12
    70%

    12Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all he did, and the force with which he went to war against Amaziah, king of Judah, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

  • 2 Chr 28:7
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    7And Zichri, a great fighting-man of Ephraim, put to death Maaseiah, the king's son, and Azrikam, the controller of his house, and Elkanah, who was second in authority to the king.

  • 2 Chr 22:1
    70%

    1And the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men who came with the Arabians to the army had put all the older sons to death. So Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, became king.

  • 2 Kgs 14:5
    69%

    5Now when he became strong in the kingdom, straight away he put to death those servants who had taken the life of the king his father;

  • 2 Chr 22:8-9
    2 verses
    69%

    8Now when Jehu was effecting the punishment of the family of Ahab, he came to the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's brothers, the servants of Ahaziah, and put them to death.

    9And he went in search of Ahaziah; and when they came where he was, (for he was in a secret place in Samaria,) they took him to Jehu and put him to death; then they put his body to rest in the earth, for they said, He is the son of Jehoshaphat, whose heart was true to the Lord. So the family of Ahaziah had no power to keep the kingdom.

  • 2 Kgs 11:16
    69%

    16So they put their hands on her, and she went to the king's house by the doorway of the horses, and there she was put to death.

  • Amos 7:10
    69%

    10Then Amaziah, the priest of Beth-el, sent to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, Amos has made designs against you among the people of Israel: the land is troubled by his words.

  • 2 Kgs 14:7
    69%

    7He put to the sword twelve thousand men of Edom in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela in war, naming it Joktheel, as it is to this day.