1 Amatsyahu was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Yerushalayim. And the name of his mother was Yaho’addan of Yerushalayim.
2 And he did what was right in the eyes of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, but not with a perfect heart.
3 And it came to be, upon his strong control of the reign, that he slew his servants who had smitten his father the sovereign.
4 But he did not put their children to death, but did as it is written in the Torah in the Book of Mosheh, where 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 commanded, saying, “Fathers are not put to death for their children, and children are not put to death for their fathers, but each one has to die for his own sin.”
5 And Amatsyahu gathered Yahuḏah and appointed over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, according to the fathers’ houses, for all Yahuḏah and Binyamin. And he registered them from twenty years old and above, and found them to be three hundred thousand choice men going out to the army, handling spear and shield.
6 And he hired one hundred thousand mighty brave ones from Yisra’ĕl for one hundred kiḵars of silver.
7 But a man of Elohim came to him, saying, “O sovereign, do not let the army of Yisra’ĕl go with you, for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 is not with Yisra’ĕl, with all the children of Ephrayim.
8 “But if you are going, do it! Be strong in battle, or Elohim would make you fall before the enemy, for Elohim has power to help and to overthrow.”
9 And Amatsyahu said to the man of Elohim, “But what do we do about the hundred kiḵars which I have given to the army of Yisra’ĕl?” And the man of Elohim answered, “𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 has more to give you than this.”
10 So Amatsyahu dismissed the army that had come to him from Ephrayim, to go back home. And they were greatly enraged against Yahuḏah, and they returned home in a rage.
11 And Amatsyahu strengthened himself, and led his people, and went to the Valley of Salt and smote ten thousand of the sons of Sĕ’ir.
12 And the sons of Yahuḏah took captive another ten thousand alive, and they brought them to the top of the rock, and threw them down from the top of the rock, and all of them were dashed to pieces.
13 And the soldiers of the army which Amatsyahu had sent back from going with him to battle, they raided the cities of Yahuḏah from Shomeron to Bĕyth Ḥoron, and smote three thousand in them, and took much spoil.
14 And it came to be, after Amatsyahu came from smiting the Eḏomites, that he brought the mighty ones of the people of Sĕ’ir, and stood them up to be his mighty ones, and bowed down before them and burned incense to them.
15 Therefore the displeasure of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 burned against Amatsyahu, and He sent him a naḇi who said to him, “Why have you sought the mighty ones of the people, which did not deliver their own people from your hand?”
16 And it came to be, as he talked with him, that the sovereign said to him, “Have we appointed you counsellor to the sovereign? Stop! Why should they smite you?” Then the naḇi stopped and said, “I know that Elohim has counselled to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”
17 And Amatsyahu sovereign of Yahuḏah took counsel and sent to Yo’ash son of Yaho’ahaz, son of Yahu, sovereign of Yisra’ĕl, saying, “Come, let us look each other in the face!”
18 And Yo’ash sovereign of Yisra’ĕl sent to Amatsyahu sovereign of Yahuḏah, saying, “The thistle that was in Leḇanon sent to the cedar that was in Leḇanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife.’ And a wild beast that was in Leḇanon passed by and trampled the thistle.
19 “You have said, ‘See, I have smitten Eḏom,’ and your heart has lifted you up to boast. Now stay at home, why should you stir up yourself to evil, that you should fall – you and Yahuḏah with you?”
20 But Amatsyahu did not listen, for it came from Elohim, in order to give them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought the mighty ones of Eḏom.
21 So Yo’ash sovereign of Yisra’ĕl went out. And he and Amatsyahu sovereign of Yahuḏah faced one another at Bĕyth Shemesh, which belongs to Yahuḏah.
22 And Yahuḏah was smitten before Yisra’ĕl, and they each fled to his tent.
23 And Yo’ash the sovereign of Yisra’ĕl caught Amatsyahu sovereign of Yahuḏah, son of Yo’ash, son of Yaho’aḥaz, at Bĕyth Shemesh, and brought him to Yerushalayim, and broke down the wall of Yerushalayim from the Gate of Ephrayim to the Corner Gate, four hundred ammah,
24 and took all the gold and the silver, and all the utensils that were found in the House of Elohim with Oḇĕḏ-Eḏom, and the treasures of the sovereign’s house, and hostages, and returned to Shomeron.
25 And Amatsyahu son of Yo’ash, sovereign of Yahuḏah, lived fifteen years after the death of Yo’ash son of Yaho’aḥaz, sovereign of Yisra’ĕl.
26 And the rest of the acts of Amatsyahu, from the first to the last, see, are they not written in the book of the sovereigns of Yahuḏah and Yisra’ĕl?
27 And from the time that Amatsyahu turned away from following 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, they made a conspiracy against him in Yerushalayim, and he fled to Laḵish. And they sent after him to Laḵish and killed him there,
28 and they brought him on horses and buried him with his fathers in the City of Yahuḏah.