Amaziah of Judah, Amasias ( DRB ), pronounced, and Amatzyah (; ; ) was the king of Judah, the son and successor of Joash.

And half a century later, the city was sacked by Jehoash of Israel, who destroyed the walls and took Amaziah of Judah prisoner.

He is one of the four kings omitted by Matthew () in the genealogy of Jesus, the other three being Ahaziah, Amaziah, and Jehoiakim.

" Amaziah had begun to worship some of the idols he had taken from the Edomites, which the author of Chronicles believes led to his ruin and his defeat by Jehoash, whom he had challenged to battle.

The dates given in the infobox below are those of Thiele, except the starting date for the Amaziah / Uzziah coregency is taken as one year later than that given by Thiele, following Leslie McFall.

Amaziah began his reign by punishing the murderers of his father ( 2 Kings 14: 5 ; 2 Chronicles 25: 3 ).

Matthew 1: 8 skips over Ahaziah, Athaliah, Jehoash, and Amaziah, two of whom were kings of Israel and all are well documented by other sources.

The city was possibly constructed by King Amaziah of Judah, an 8th century BCE ruler who fortified the Judean kingdom and went to war with neighbouring Edom in the northern Arabah, or his son Uzziah whose construction of towers in the desert is mentioned by the second Book of Chronicles.

According to one tradition, Amoz is the " man of God " in 2 Chronicles 25: 7-9, who cautioned Amaziah to release the Israelite mercenaries that he had hired.

There is further reference to ' horns ' later in the Psalm (, or in Douay-Rheims which speaks of horns being ' cut ' from the wicked or ' exalted ' for the righteous.

Ahaziah (, " held by Yah (- weh )"; Douay-Rheims: Ochozias ) was the name of two kings:

In the English-speaking world, the Douay-Rheims Bible — translated from the Latin Vulgate by expatriate recusants in Rheims, France in 1582 ( New Testament ) and in Douai, France in 1609 ( Old Testament )— which was revised by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749 – 1752 ( the 1750 revision is that which is printed today ), was, until the prompting for " new translations from the original languages " given by Pope Pius XII in the 1942 encyclical letter Divino afflante spiritu and the Second Vatican Council, the translation used by most Catholics ( after Divino afflante spiritu, translations multiplied in the Catholic world, just as they multiplied in the Protestant world around the same time beginning with the Revised Standard Version, with various other translations being used around the world for English-language liturgies, ranging from the New American Bible, the Jerusalem Bible, the Revised Standard Version Second Catholic Edition, and the upcoming English Standard Version Catholic lectionary ).

The Douay-Rheims Challoner Bible is still often preferred by more conservative or Traditionalist Catholics, and holds a status in the Catholic world equivalent to that held by the Authorized King James Version in the Protestant world.

In 1609 the English College published a translation of the Old Testament, which, together with the New Testament published at Rheims 27 years earlier, was the Douay-Rheims Bible used by Anglophone Roman Catholics almost exclusively for more than 300 years.

Of the Vulgate, Challenor's note in the Douay-Rheims Bible, reconciles this discrepancy: " He was associated by his father to the kingdom, when he was but eight years old ; but after his father's death, when he reigned alone, he was eighteen years old.

It is called Douay-Rheims because the New Testament portion was first completed in Rheims, France, in 1582, followed by the Old Testament, finished in 1609-1610 in Douay ( or Douai ), France.

While yet an infant, he was saved from the general massacre commanded by Athaliah of the family by his aunt Jehosheba ( or Josaba in Douay-Rheims ), and was apparently the only surviving male descendant of his grandfather Jehoram ().

An edition at, has the text of the Latin Vulgate, flanked by the Douay-Rheims Version ( based on the Latin ) and the King James Version of the Bible.

Influenced by the work of his contemporary, an English priest named John Lingard, Kenrick published his own translation of the four Gospels in 1849 ; he eventually translated the entire Bible, as a new revision of the Douay-Rheims Bible.

For the inclusive language that it does contain, it has been rejected by many conservative American Catholics in favor of the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition or the Douay-Rheims Bible.

" The result is that the Christian Community Bible's order is a blend of the Jewish and Catholic order ( here represented by the Douay-Rheims Bible ):

Ai (; " heap of ruins "; Douay-Rheims: Hai ) was a Canaanite royal city.

It may also be found in many larger English Bibles included as part of the Biblical Apocrypha, as they exist in the King James version, the Revised Standard Version, and the earliest editions of the Catholic Douay-Rheims Bible, among others.

* The Douay-Rheims Bible, Philippians 1: 9 is says " And this I pray, that your charity may more and more abound in knowledge, and in all understanding ".

His oracular shrine in Abae in Phocis, where he bore the toponymic epithet Abaeus (, Apollon Abaios ) was important enough to be consulted by Croesus ( Herodotus, 1. 46 ).

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