2 Chronicles 25:5-13

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 ¹from twenty years old and upward and found them to be ² 300,000 * * 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 ³a 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, ⁴for 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, "⁵The 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 ⁶the Valley of Salt and struck down 10,000 * of the sons of Seir.

12 The sons of Judah also captured 10,000 * alive and brought them to the top of the cliff and threw them down from the top of the cliff, so that they were all dashed to pieces.

13 But the troops * whom Amaziah sent back from going with him to battle, raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck down 3,000 * of them and plundered much spoil.

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2 Chronicles 25:5-13 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 6

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

Footnotes 6

[a]. Lit "mustered"
[b]. Lit "cause to stumble"
[c]. Lit "cause to stumble"
[d]. Lit "separated"
[e]. Lit "to their own place"
[f]. Lit "sons of the troops"