2 Chronicles 25:3
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| Overview - 2 Chronicles 25 | |
| 1 | Amaziah begins to reign well. |
| 3 | He executes justice on the traitors. |
| 5 | Having hired an army of Israelites against the Edomites, at the word of a prophet dismisses them. |
| 11 | He overthrows the Edomites. |
| 13 | The Israelites, discontented with their dismission, spoil as they return home. |
| 14 | Amaziah, proud of his victory, serves the gods of Edom, and despises the admonitions of the prophet. |
| 17 | He provokes Joash to his overthrow. |
| 25 | His reign. |
| 27 | He is slain by conspiracy. |
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2 Chronicles 25:3 (King James Version)
Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
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- M. 3166. B.C. 838. Now it came.
- 2 Kings 14:5-22
- established to him
- Hebrew confirmed upon him. he slew.
- 2 Chronicles 24:25 2 Chronicles 24:26 Genesis 9:5 Genesis 9:6 ; Exodus 21:14 ; Numbers 35:31-33
- No doubt those wicked men, Jozachar and Jehozabad, who murdered his father, had considerable influence; and therefore he found it dangerous to bring them to justice, till he was assured of the loyalty of his other officers: when this was clear, he called them to an account, and justly put them to death for treason and murder; for, if even these conspirators against Joash intended to avenge upon him the death of Zechariah, they acted without a commission from that God "to whom vengeance belongeth."