2CH-25:1 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.

2CH-25:2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the

LORD, but not with a perfect heart.

2CH-25:3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established

to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his

father.

2CH-25:4 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.

2CH-25:5 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.

2CH-25:6 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour

out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.

2CH-25:7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let

not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD [is] not with

Israel, [to wit, with] all the children of Ephraim.

2CH-25:8 But if thou wilt go, do [it], be strong for the battle:

God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to

help, and to cast down.

2CH-25:9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we

do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of

Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give

thee much more than this.

2CH-25:10 Then Amaziah separated them, [to wit], the army that

was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore

their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned

home in great anger.

2CH-25:11 And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his

people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the

children of Seir ten thousand.

2CH-25:12 And [other] ten thousand [left] alive did the children

of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of

the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they

all were broken in pieces.

2CH-25:13 But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back,

that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities

of Judah, from Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three

thousand of them, and took much spoil.

2CH-25:14 Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from

the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the

children of Seir, and set them up [to be] his gods, and bowed

down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.

2CH-25:15 Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against

Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him,

Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could

not deliver their own people out of thine hand?

2CH-25:16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that [the

king] said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel?

forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare,

 and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee,

because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my

counsel.

2CH-25:17 Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to

Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel,

saying, Come, let us see one another in the face.

2CH-25:18 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah,

 saying, The thistle that [was] in Lebanon sent to the cedar

that [was] in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to

wife: and there passed by a wild beast that [was] in Lebanon,

and trode down the thistle.

2CH-25:19 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and

thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why

shouldest thou meddle to [thine] hurt, that thou shouldest fall,

[even] thou, and Judah with thee?

2CH-25:20 But Amaziah would not hear; for it [came] of God, that

he might deliver them into the hand [of their enemies], because

they sought after the gods of Edom.

2CH-25:21 So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one

another in the face, [both] he and Amaziah king of Judah, at

Bethshemesh, which [belongeth] to Judah.

2CH-25:22 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they

fled every man to his tent.

2CH-25:23 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of

Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh,

and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of

Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four

hundred cubits.

2CH-25:24 And [he took] all the gold and the silver, and all the

vessels that were found in the house of God with Obededom, and

the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and

returned to Samaria.

2CH-25:25 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after

the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

2CH-25:26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last,

behold, [are] they not written in the book of the kings of Judah

and Israel?

2CH-25:27 Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from

following the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in

Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish

after him, and slew him there.

2CH-25:28 And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with

his fathers in the city of Judah.

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