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Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign , and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
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And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
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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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But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD 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.
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Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together , and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.