2 Ahemfo 14
1 Ɛberɛ a Yoas babarima Amasia hyɛɛ aseɛ dii adeɛ wɔ Yuda no, na ɔhene Yehoas adi adeɛ wɔ Israel mfeɛ mmienu.
In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel began Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah to reign.
2 Amasia dii adeɛ no, na wadi mfeɛ aduonu enum, na ɔdii adeɛ wɔ Yerusalem mfeɛ aduonu nkron. Na wɔfrɛ ne maame Yehoadin a ɔfiri Yerusalem.
He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.
3 Ɔyɛɛ deɛ ɛtene wɔ Awurade ani so, nanso anto deɛ nʼagya Dawid yɛeɛ. Ɔhwɛɛ nʼagya Yoas nhwɛsoɔ so.
And he did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all that Joash his father had done.
4 Amasia ansɛe abosonnan a na nnipa kɔbɔ afɔdeɛ, kɔhye nnuhwam wɔ hɔ no.
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
5 Ɛberɛ a Amasia ase timiiɛ sɛ ɔhene no, ɔkunkumm mpanimfoɔ a wɔkumm nʼagya no nyinaa.
And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father:
6 Nanso, wɔn a wɔkunkumm wɔn no mma deɛ, wankum wɔn, sɛdeɛ wɔatwerɛ wɔ Mose Mmara Nwoma no mu no, ne sɛdeɛ Awurade ahyɛ no sɛ: Mma wɔnkunkum agyanom wɔ wɔn mma bɔne a wɔayɛ nti; na wɔnnkunkum mma wɔ wɔn agyanom bɔne a wɔayɛ enti. Ɛsɛ sɛ obiara wu wɔ ne bɔne ho.
but the children of the murderers he put not to death: according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as the LORD 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 Amasia na ɔkunkumm Edomfoɔ ɔpedu wɔ Nkyene Bɔnhwa no mu no. Ɔno ara nso na ɔdii Sela so nkonim, na ɔtoo hɔ edin Yokteel, edin a wɔde frɛ hɔ de bɛsi ɛnnɛ no.
He slew of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called the name of it Joktheel, unto this day.
8 Ɛda bi, Amasia ka sii Israelhene a ɔyɛ Yehoahas babarima ne Yehu nana anim sɛ, “Bɛhyia me ma yɛnko.”
Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.
9 Na Israelhene Yoas de abasɛm buaa Yudahene Amasia sɛ, “Nkasɛɛ a ɛwɔ Lebanon mmepɔ so somaa abɔfoɔ kɔɔ dutan ntweneduro nkyɛn kɔka kyerɛɛ no sɛ, ‘Fa wo babaa ma me babarima awadeɛ.’ Ɛhɔ ara na aboa bi firi wiram bɛtiatiaa nkasɛɛ no so sɛee no.
And 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 thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
10 Nokorɛm, woadi Edom so nkonim, ama woayɛ ahantan. Ma wʼani nsɔ wo nkonimdie no, na tena wo fie. Adɛn enti na wopere wo ho kɔ ɔhaw a ɛde amanehunu bɛba wo ne Yudafoɔ nyinaa so yi?”
Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory thereof, and abide at home; for why shouldest thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
11 Na Amasia antie enti, Israelhene Yoas boaboaa nʼakodɔm ano ne no kɔkoeɛ. Akodɔm mmienu no hyiaa mu koeɛ wɔ Bet-Semes a ɛwɔ Yuda.
But Amaziah would not hear. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
12 Israel akodɔm dii Yuda so nkonim, maa Yuda akodɔm no bɔ hweteeɛ, dwane kɔɔ wɔn kurom.
And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to his tent.
13 Israelhene Yoas kyeree Yudahene, Yoas babarima Ahasia babarima Amasia wɔ Bet-Semes. Na Yoas bɔɔ nsra kɔɔ Yerusalem. Afei ɔhyɛɛ nʼakodɔm no ma wɔdwirii Yerusalem ɔfasuo no, firi Efraim Ɛpono no de kɔsii Twɛtwɛwaso Ɛpono no, a ne tenten bɛyɛ sɛ anammɔn ahansia no.
And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubists.
14 Ɔfaa sikakɔkɔɔ, dwetɛ ne nnwinneɛ nyinaa firii Awurade asɔredan mu ne ahemfie akoradan mu hɔ. Ɔfaa nnipa no nnommum, na ɔsane kɔɔ Samaria.
And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
15 Yoas ahennie mu nsɛm nkaeɛ ne deɛ ne tumi kɔsiiɛ ne ako a ɔne Yudahene Amasia diiɛ no nyinaa, wɔatwerɛ agu Israel Ahemfo Abakɔsɛm Nwoma no mu.
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
16 Ɛberɛ a Yoas wuiɛ no, wɔsiee no wɔ ne mpanimfoɔ nkyɛn wɔ Samaria. Na ne babarima Yeroboam a ɔtɔ so mmienu na ɔdii nʼadeɛ sɛ ɔhene.
And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.
17 Israelhene Yoas, Yehoahas babarima owuo akyi no, Yudahene Amasia tenaa ase mfeɛ dunum.
And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
18 Amasia ahennie mu nsɛm nkaeɛ no, wɔatwerɛ agu Yuda Ahemfo Abakɔsɛm Nwoma no mu.
Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
19 Wɔpam Amasia tiri so wɔ Yerusalem enti, ɔdwane kɔɔ Lakis. Nanso, nʼatamfoɔ no somaa awudifoɔ, ma wɔtii no, kɔkumm no wɔ hɔ.
And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
20 Wɔsane de no too ɔpɔnkɔ so, baa Yerusalem, na wɔsiee no wɔ ne mpanimfoɔ nkyɛn wɔ Dawid kurom.
And they brought him upon horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
21 Yudafoɔ sii Amasia babarima Asaria a na wadi mfeɛ dunsia no ɔhene.
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
22 Nʼagya wuo akyi no, Asaria sane kyekyeree Elat kuro, dane maa Yuda.
He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
23 Yudahene Yoas babarima Amasia adedie mfeɛ dunum mu no, Israelhene Yoas babarima Yeroboam a ɔtɔ so mmienu bɛdii ɔhene wɔ Israel. Ɔdii adeɛ wɔ Samaria mfirinhyia aduanan baako.
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, [and reigned] forty and one years.
24 Ɔyɛɛ bɔne Awurade ani so. Na wantwe ne ho amfiri abosonsom a Nebat babarima Yeroboam ma Israelfoɔ kɔɔ mu no ho.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin.
25 Yeroboam a ɔtɔ so mmienu gyegyee Israel nsase a ɛda Lebo Hamat ne Nkyene Ɛpo no ntam no sɛdeɛ Awurade, Israel Onyankopɔn nam Amitai babarima Yona, odiyifoɔ a ɔfiri Gat-Hefer so, hyɛɛ ho bɔ no.
He restored the border of Israel from the entering in of Hamath unto the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gath-hepher.
26 Awurade hunuu sɛdeɛ obiara a ɔwɔ Israel no reteetee, na wɔnni obiara a ɔbɛboa wɔn nso.
For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there any helper for Israel.
27 Esiane sɛ Awurade nkaa sɛ ɔbɛpepa Israel din koraa no enti, ɔnam Yoas babarima Yeroboam nso so gyee wɔn nkwa.
And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
28 Yeroboam a ɔtɔ so mmienu ahennie mu nsɛm nkaeɛ ne dwuma a ɔdiiɛ nyinaa, deɛ ne tumi ano kɔsiiɛ, nʼakodie ne nsase a ɔgyegye maa Israel a Damasko ne Hamat a na ɛwɔ Yuda nsam no nyinaa ka ho no, wɔatwerɛ agu Israel Ahemfo Abakɔsɛm Nwoma no mu.
Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, [which had belonged] to Judah, for Israel, are they hot written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
29 Ɛberɛ a Yeroboam wuiɛ no, wɔsiee no ne mpanimfoɔ a na wɔyɛ Israel ahemfo no nkyɛn. Na ne babarima Sakaria na ɔdii nʼadeɛ sɛ ɔhene.
And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son reigned in his stead.
