2 Chronicles 25:1-11

Amaziah Succeeds Joash in Judah

1 1Amaziah was twenty-five * years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine * years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
2 He did right in the sight of the LORD, 2yet not with a whole heart.
3 Now 3it came about as soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, that he killed his servants who had slain his father the king.
4 However, he did not put their children to death, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, which the LORD commanded, saying, "4Fathers shall not be put to death for sons, nor sons be put to death for fathers, but each shall be put to death for his own sin."

Amaziah Defeats Edomites

5 Moreover, Amaziah assembled Judah and appointed them according to their fathers' households under commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds throughout Judah and Benjamin; and he took a census of those 5from twenty years old and upward and found them to be 6 300,000 * * choice men, able to go to war and handle spear and shield.
6 He hired also 100,000 * valiant warriors out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver.
7 But 7a man of God came to him saying, "O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel nor with any of the sons of Ephraim.
8 "But if you do go, do it, be strong for the battle; yet God will bring you down before the enemy, 8for God has power to help and to bring down."
9 Amaziah said to the man of God, "But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the troops of Israel?" And the man of God answered, "9The LORD has much more to give you than this."
10 Then Amaziah dismissed them, the troops which came to him from Ephraim, to go home; so their anger burned against Judah and they returned home in fierce anger.
11 Now Amaziah strengthened himself and led his people forth, and went to 10the Valley of Salt and struck down 10,000 * of the sons of Seir.

Cross References 10

  • 1. 2 Kings 14:1-6
  • 2. 2 Chronicles 25:14
  • 3. 2 Kings 14:5
  • 4. Deuteronomy 24:16
  • 5. Numbers 1:3
  • 6. 2 Chronicles 26:13
  • 7. 2 Kings 4:9
  • 8. 2 Chronicles 14:11; 2 Chronicles 20:6
  • 9. Deuteronomy 8:18; Proverbs 10:22
  • 10. 2 Kings 14:7

Footnotes 6

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