2 Chronicles 25:4-14

4 But 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, ¹"Fathers shall not die because of their children, nor children die because of their fathers, but each one shall die for his own sin."

Amaziah's Victories

5 Then Amaziah assembled the men of Judah and set them by fathers' houses under commanders of thousands and of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He mustered those ²twenty years old and upward, and found that they were ³ 300,000 choice men, fit for war, ⁴able to handle spear and shield.

6 He hired also 100,000 mighty men of valor from Israel for 100 talents^[a] of silver.

7 But ⁵a 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.

8 But go, act, be strong for the battle. Why should you suppose that God will cast you down before the enemy? ⁶For God has power to help or to cast down."

9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, "But what shall we do about the hundred 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."

10 Then Amaziah discharged the army that had come to him from Ephraim to go home again. And they became very angry with Judah and returned home in fierce anger.

11 But Amaziah took courage and led out his people and went to the ⁷Valley of Salt and struck down ⁸ 10,000 men of Seir.

12 The 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, and they were all dashed to pieces.

13 But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, not letting them go with him to battle, raided the cities of Judah, ⁹from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck down 3,000 people in them and took much spoil.

Amaziah's Idolatry

14 After Amaziah came from striking down the Edomites, ¹⁰he brought the gods ¹¹of the men of Seir and set them up as his gods and worshiped them, making offerings to them.

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2 Chronicles 25:4-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 25

This chapter begins with the reign of Amaziah, and some of the first acts of it, slaying those that killed his father, 2Ch 25:1-4, raising a large army in his own kingdom, to which he added 100,000 more he hired out of Israel, whom yet he sent home by the advice of a prophet, 2Ch 25:5-10, and with his own army marched against the Edomites, and obtained a victory over them, 2Ch 25:11,12, but the Israelites being displeased with him for dismissing them, fell on some of his cities, and slew many in them, 2Ch 25:13, and such was his stupidity, as to worship the gods of the Edomites he had conquered, for which he was reproved by a prophet, 2Ch 25:14-16 and being elated with his victory, he sent a challenge to the king of Israel, who accepting of it, a battle ensued, in which Judah was worsted, their king taken, and treasuries spoiled, 2Ch 25:17-24, and the chapter is closed with the death and burial of Amaziah, 2Ch 25:25-28.

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Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 11

1. Deuteronomy 24:16; [Jeremiah 31:30; Ezekiel 18:20]
2. Numbers 1:3
3. [2 Chronicles 11:1; 2 Chronicles 13:3; 2 Chronicles 17:14-18; 2 Chronicles 26:13]
4. 1 Chronicles 12:8
5. Deuteronomy 33:1
6. [2 Chronicles 20:6]
7. 2 Kings 14:7
8. 2 Chronicles 20:10
9. [2 Chronicles 15:8; 2 Chronicles 19:4]
10. [2 Chronicles 28:23]
11. [See ver. 11 above]

Footnotes 1

[a]. A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms

The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.