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2 Chronicles

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Chapter 25

¹Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. ²And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not with a whole heart. ³As soon as the royal power was firmly his, he executed his servants who had murdered King his father. ⁴But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, “Fathers shall not die because of their children, nor children die because of their fathers, but each one shall die for his own sin.” ⁵Then Amaziah assembled the men of Judah and Benjamin and arranged them by fathers’ houses under commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds. He mustered those twenty years old and upward, and he found that they were 300,000 chosen men, able to go to war, handling spear and shield. ⁶He hired also 100,000 mighty men of valor from Israel for 100 talents of silver. ⁷But 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, with all these Ephraimites. ⁸But if you go, do it, be strong for the battle. God will give you over to defeat before the enemy, for God has power to help or to overthrow.” ⁹Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do about the 100 talents that I have given to the army of Israel?” The man of God answered, “The LORD is able to give you much more than this.” ¹⁰Then Amaziah discharged the army that had come to him from Ephraim, to go home again. And they were very angry with Judah and returned home in fierce anger. ¹¹But Amaziah took courage and led out his people and went to the Valley of Salt and struck down 10,000 men of Seir. ¹²The men of Judah captured another 10,000 alive and took them to the top of a rock and threw them down from the top of the rock, so that all of them were dashed to pieces. ¹³But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, not to go with him to battle, raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck down 3,000 people in them and took much spoil. ¹⁴After Amaziah came from striking down the Edomites, he brought the gods of the people of Seir and set them up as his gods and worshiped them, making offerings to them. ¹⁵Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent to him a prophet, who said to him, “Why have you resorted to the gods of a people who did not deliver their own people from your hand?” ¹⁶But as he was speaking, the king said to him, “Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.” ¹⁷Then Amaziah king of Judah took counsel and sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.” ¹⁸And Joash the king of Israel sent back to Amaziah king of Judah, “A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle. ¹⁹You say, ‘See, you have struck down Edom,’ and your heart has lifted you up in boastfulness. Now stay at home. Why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?” ²⁰But Amaziah would not listen, for it was of God, in order that he might give them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought the gods of Edom. ²¹So Joash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced one another in battle at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah. ²²And Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled to his tent. ²³And Joash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for 400 cubits, from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate. ²⁴And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God, with Obed-edom, and the treasuries of the king’s house, and hostages, and he returned to Samaria. ²⁵Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel. ²⁶Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, from first to last, behold, are they not written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel? ²⁷From the time when Amaziah turned away from following the LORD, a conspiracy was made against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there. ²⁸And they brought him upon horses, and he was buried with his fathers in the city of David.