The Second Book of Chronicles (WEB)
25: 1Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine
years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem. 25:2He did that which was
right in the eyes of Yahweh, but not with a perfect heart. 25:3Now it happened, when the kingdom
was established to him, that he killed his servants who had killed the king his father. 25:4But he
didn't put their children to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book
of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall
the children die for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin. 25:5Moreover Amaziah
gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers' houses, under captains of
thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from
twenty years old and upward, and found them three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go
forth to war, who could handle spear and shield. 25:6He hired also one hundred thousand mighty
men of valor out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver. 25:7But there came a man of God to him,
saying, O king, don't let the army of Israel go with you; for Yahweh is not with Israel, to wit, with
all the children of Ephraim. 25:8But if you will go, do valiantly, be strong for the battle: God will
cast you down before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to cast down. 25:9Amaziah said to
the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of
Israel? The man of God answered, Yahweh is able to give you much more than this. 25:10Then
Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that had come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again:
therefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in fierce anger.
25:11Amaziah took courage, and led forth his people, and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck of
the children of Seir ten thousand. 25:12other ten thousand did the children of Judah carry away alive,
and brought them to the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, so that they
all were broken in pieces. 25:13But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they should
not go with him to battle, fell on the cities of Judah, from Samaria even to Beth-horon, and struck
of them three thousand, and took much spoil. 25:14Now it happened, after that Amaziah was come
from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them
up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense to them. 25:15Therefore
the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent to him a prophet, who said to him,
Why have you sought after the gods of the people, which have not delivered their own people out
of your hand? 25:16It happened, as he talked with him, that the king said to him, Have we made you
of the king's counsel? Stop! Why should you be struck down? Then the prophet stopped, and said,
I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened
to my counsel. 25:17Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz
the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face. 25:18Joash 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 your daughter to my son as wife: and there passed by a wild animal
that was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle. 25:19You say, Behold, you have struck Edom; and
your heart lifts you up to boast: abide now at home; why should you meddle to your hurt, that you
should fall, even you, and Judah with you? 25:20But Amaziah would not hear; for it was of God, that
he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought after the gods of
Edom. 25:21So Joash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another
in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah. 25:22Judah was put to the worse before Israel;
and they fled every man to his tent. 25:23Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of
Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the
wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits. 25:24He took all
the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obed-edom, and
the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria. 25:25Amaziah the son
of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
25:26Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, aren't they written in the book of the
kings of Judah and Israel? 25:27Now from the time that Amaziah did turn away from following
Yahweh they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent
after him to Lachish, and killed him there. 25:28They brought him on horses, and buried him with
his fathers in the city of Judah.
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