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Amaziah was twenty and fiveyearsold when he began to reign, and he reignedtwenty and nineyears in Jerusalem. And his mother'sname was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
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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 LORDcommanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the childrendie for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.
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Moreover AmaziahgatheredJudahtogether, 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 twentyyearsold and above, and found them threehundredthousandchoice men, able to go forth to war, that could handlespear and shield.
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But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israelgo with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.