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Jeroboam son of Nebat founded the Northern Kingdom. God picked him to split from Solomon\u2019s son. But Jeroboam made a fatal mistake early on. He built the two Golden Calves on each end of the Northern Kingdom as a way to keep the people from going to Jerusalem for holidays. This mistake was a millstone around the neck of the North. Every time a new king ascended the throne, they would be judged (in the text anyway) based on the fact that they followed in the evil ways of Jeroboam by keeping the Golden Calves in place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is not surprising that there would be a second king of the North named after its founding father. Jeroboam ben Joash ascends the throne after the death of his father Joash. He is king for a very long time - 42 years. He also gets the same introduction as the previous kings \u201cAnd he did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord; he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam ben Nabat, who make Israel sin\u201d (verse 24).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But the details of Jeroboam II\u2019s reign seem pretty good for the North. He restores all the borders of the kingdom. This expansion is even included in the summary of his reign:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The other events of Jeroboam\u2019s reign, and all his actions and exploits, how he fought and recovered Damascus and Hamath for Judah in Israel\u2026(verse 28).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It seems based on this last verse that he was so successful in his military campaigns that he even restored towns to the Southern Kingdom!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeroboam II\u2019s reign may have been a reprieve by God. Back in chapter 13 there is a cryptic verse: \u201cAnd the Lord gave Israel a deliverer so that they went out from the hands of the Arameans and the Children of Israel dwelt in their tents like before\u201d (13:5).\u00a0 The text, though, does not explain who this deliverer was. Fast forward to chapter 14, and a familiar prophet makes an appearance:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It was he who restored the territory of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the sea of the Arabah, in accordance with the promise that the LORD, the God of Israel, had made through His servant, the prophet Jonah son of Amittai (verse 25).\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

It is possible that this verse references the prophecy from chapter 13. This would make Jeroboam II the \u201csavior\u201d mentioned in the earlier chapter.\u00a0 It is possible then that Jeroboam was actually a good king, He reigned for 42 years and there are no extended stories of Baal worship or other idol worship like other kings of Israel. Despite this relatively peaceful reign, he fell victim to the same mistake of his namesake. Jeroboam ben Nabat was also appointed by God, but Jeroboam II did not go the extra step of removing the two Golden Calves set up by Jeroboam ben Nabat. That remained a stain on his otherwise successful rule.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Remember poor King Joash and how his servants murdered him after he was forced to become a vassal to the local king of Aram? Well, a new generation has grown to adulthood, and his son, Amaziah is now the king. It is generally the way of biblical kings that they take revenge for the wrongs perpetrated on their predecessors (recall David\u2019s Godfather-like conversation with his son, Solomon, on his deathbed?) or, even worse, they often wipe out the children and relatives of deposed opponents. Nothing personal, of course, it\u2019s just politics. A cruel but effective way of removing any competing claimants to their throne.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So we\u2019ve been primed to expect that from the new king as well. Once his realm is secure, we aren\u2019t surprised when he turns his attention to revenge against the servants to murdered his dear old dad: \u201cit happened when the kingship\u00a0 was firmly in his power that he struck down his servants who had assassinated the king, his father.\u201d Business as usual for an Iron Age king.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u2026 but he did not put to death the sons of the assassins, as it is written in the Book of the Torah of Moses, which God had commanded, saying, \u201cParents shall not be put to death because of their children, nor children put to death for their parents, rather, people should be put to death for their own sin\u201d (Deut. 24:16)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Amaziah is the first king to explicitly restrain himself because of a verse in the Torah. And in doing so, he reveals the intended purpose of Torah itself. In the face of customs that are universally accepted, despite the casual practice of brutality and cruelty, the Torah asks us to rise to a higher standard. It sets itself against cruel consensus or callous indifference and demands that we are each responsible for our own deeds. Even in the realm of politics, we are not to hold people guilty for the actions of their families or their loved ones.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

By allowing the children of the assassins to live, King Amaziah lays claim to being the first really Jewish king: one who moderates cultural norms in the light of the ethical values of Torah. The presumption that each person is made in the divine image precludes erasing someone\u2019s unique value and identity. We cannot treat people based on expedience or political self interest, realpolitik must take a back seat to righteousness, compassion, and justice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Our chapter relates that once Amaziah felt secure in his reign, he set out to settle the score with \u201cthe courtiers who had assassinated his father,\u201d Jehoash. (5). At the close of an earlier chapter, we read that Jehoash\u2019s servants had conspired against him and murdered him (12:21). That verse featured the term <\/span>kesher<\/span><\/em> (literally, a knot; figuratively, a conspiracy), a term we have encountered on previous occasions and whose recurrence invites examination.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our first encounter with it was in 2 Samuel 15:12 where it was used in the description of the plot King David faced to replace him with Absalom. We next found it describing Zimri\u2019s scheme to unseat Ba`asha (1 Kings 16:20), and most recently in Queen Mother Athaliah\u2019s\u00a0 reference to her removal prior to the restoration of Jehoash to his throne (2 Kings 11:14). In other words, Jehoash, who instigated one conspiracy, became a victim of another.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moreover, what went around, came around, and, in our chapter, Amaziah, too, became the victim of a <\/span>kesher<\/span><\/em> (19) that saw him assassinated and his son, Azariah, elevated to his throne. In the next chapter, Hoshea ben Elah will conspire against Pekah ben Remaliah and successfully displace him (15:30), only to be jailed, later, on account of another <\/span>kesher<\/span><\/em>\u2014this one against his Assyrian liege lord (17:4).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The recurrence of the <\/span>kesher<\/span><\/i> phenomenon and its attestation with respect of kings of both Judah and Israel implies that the monarchic idea was not considered sacrosanct and that political allegiances were not regarded as inviolable. Unfortunately, this fickleness extended to the peoples\u2019 allegiance to God, too, and we will find the major prophets inveighing against <\/span>kesher<\/span><\/em>: Isaiah (8:12); Jeremiah (11:9); and Ezekiel (22:25).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The text does not give enough information to verifiably determine the cause of the war. But the correlative story in Chronicles provides enough information to explain the catalyst to the flare-up:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Amaziah assembled the men of Judah...300,000 chosen men, fit for service, able to bear spear and shield. He hired 100,000 warriors from Israel for with talents of silver. Then a man of God came to him and said, \"O King! Do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel \u2014 all these Ephraimites. But go by yourself and do it.... So Amaziah detached the force that came to him from Ephraim, [ordering them] to go back to their place. They were greatly angered against Judah and returned to their place in a rage. Amaziah took courage and, leading his army, he marched to the Valley of Salt. He slew 10,000 men of Seir.... The men of the force that Amaziah had sent back...made forays against the towns of Judah from Samaria to Beth-Horon. They slew 3,000 of them, and took much booty (II Chr. 25:6-10, 13).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Originally Amaziah had indeed proposed \"a marriage,\" a military alliance against Edom. And Joash had accepted his offer when he sent his 100,000 troops to boost the Judahite army. However, as the troops mobilized, Amaziah, on prophetic instruction, discharged the northern troops and sent them home. The infuriated soldiers responded by rampaging through Judahite territory, killing three thousand people and despoiling the towns and villages en route. Here we understand the second clause of the parable; if one had to express it in poetic form, one might say: \"A wild beast in Lebanon went and trampled down the thistle.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why did the northern troops react with such ferocity? Their violent reprisal was presumably motivated by a dual factor. First is the king's insulting rejection of the northern troops, on the prophet's proclamation: \"The Lord is not with Israel.\" Second is the financial aspect. The mercenaries were hired for a sum of one hundred talents of silver. It would seem that this modest payment was to be supplemented by looting and despoiling the enemy. But now, as Ahaziah relieves them from active duty, their anticipated income, the spoils of war, had been taken away. When the Israelite troops loot Judahite towns, they are unleashing their frustration while also recouping what they perceived as their financial loss.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Amaziah hears about this rampage and declares war on the north. Joash warns him that their forces are mismatched; he is the \"cedar\" compared with the lowly \"thistle.\" This explanation shifts some of the weight off Amaziah. After all, he was responding to a northern provocation. Amaziah made a dreadful tactical miscalculation; his indignation blinding his better judgment. There is little doubt that this civil war was a total blunder for Amaziah. The southern army is defeated, Jerusalem is penetrated, and Amaziah and members of his clan are taken captive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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14:19 \u201cAnd they hatched a plot against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish, and they sent after him to Lachish, and they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Once again, no reason is given for the determination of the conspirators -- presumably people in the royal court -- to kill the king. One possibility would be simmering resentment over his rash military provocation of the northern kingdom and its disastrous results -- the breaching of the wall, the emptying of royal and temple treasuries. As with the assassination of Amaziah\u2019s father, the hostility is directed against the king, not the dynasty, for his son is allowed to ascend the throne.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. As it is written in the Torah of Moses.<\/em> Amaziah deals with his father\u2019s murderers by \u201cthe Book\u201d: \u201cBut he did not put to death the children of the assassins, in accordance with what is written in the Book of the Teaching of Moses, where the LORD commanded, \u2018Parents shall not be put to death for children, nor children be put to death for parents; a person shall be put to death only for his own crime\u2019\u201d (verse 6).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. A call to war?<\/em> The conversation between Amaziah and Joash in verses 8-10 is more poetical than political. The war is much less poetic.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Jerusalem<\/em>. Neither unified not unifying. This is the first and only time that the Kingdom of Israel attacked and damaged Jerusalem during the course of the conflict between the two kingdoms. Two chapters down the road, there will be another Israelite attempt to besiege Jerusalem, but it won\u2019t succeed.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. 41 years, 5 verses<\/em>. The glorious kingdom of Jeroboam (son of Joash) gets only 5 verses of coverage here. But in another 196 chapters, the prophet Amos will give us a little peek into what was going inside this Israelite kingdom.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. \u00bd + \u00bd = 1 (whole).<\/em> The northern kingdom (Israel) reaches all the way to Lebo-hamath, while the southern kingdom (Judah) will reach Eilat. Together they comprise the maximal borders of Biblical Israel.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"2 Kings 14","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"II Kings","chapter":"14","chapter_main_number":"323","date":"20261124","wall_id":"323"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/63896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}