2 Chronicles 25
25
Amaziah, King of Judah
2Ki 14:1–20
1Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he was king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Jehoaddan from Jerusalem. 2#2Ch 25:14; 24:2He did what was correct in the eyes of the Lord, only not with a complete heart. 3And it happened that when the kingdom was firmly his that he killed his servants, those who struck down his father King Joash. 4#Dt 24:16; Eze 18:20But he did not put to death their children because, as it is written in the Law in the Book of Moses, as the Lord commanded, “You will not put to death the fathers for their children’s actions nor the children will you put to death for their fathers’ actions, for every man will be put to death for his own sin.”
Slaughter of the Edomites
5#Nu 1:3; 2Ch 17:14–18Then Amaziah assembled Judah and set over them according to the house of the fathers commanders of thousands and hundreds in all Judah and Benjamin, and he appointed men who were twenty years old and above. And they found three hundred thousand choice men fit for war and able to use a long spear and large shield. 6And he hired out from Israel one hundred thousand mighty men of war for one hundred talents#About 33/4 tons, or 3.4 metric tons; also in v. 9. of silver.
7#2Ch 19:2Then a man of God came to him saying, “O king, do not let the army of Israel come with you because the Lord is not with Israel or with any of the sons of Ephraim. 8#2Ch 20:6; 14:11But if you go, do it. Be strong for the battle. Yet God shall make you fall before the enemy, for God has power to help and to bring down.”
9Then Amaziah said to the man of God, “So what should I do about the one hundred talents of silver that I gave to the military party from Israel?”
And the man of God responded, “The Lord has more to give to you than this.”
10So Amaziah dismissed the military party that came to him from Ephraim to return to their place. And they were very angry with Judah and returned to their place in a great rage.
11#2Ki 14:7But Amaziah strengthened himself and led his people, and he journeyed to the Valley of Salt and struck down ten thousand of the people of Seir. 12And the people of Judah took captive another ten thousand alive and brought them to the top of a cliff and threw them from the top of the rock so that they were all dashed to pieces.
13But the men of the military party that Amaziah turned back from going with him in battle raided the cities of Judah from Samaria to Beth Horon. They struck down three thousand Judeans and took a great amount of plunder.
14#2Ch 28:23And it happened after Amaziah came back from striking down the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the people from Seir and set them up as gods for himself. He worshipped them and gave them sacrifices. 15#2Ch 25:11–12; Ps 96:5So the Lord was greatly angry with Amaziah, and He sent a prophet to the king. And he said, “Why do you seek from the gods of the people who were not even able to deliver the people from your hand?”
16But while the prophet was speaking, the king said, “Have we made you a counselor to the king? Stop! Why should you be struck down?”
The prophet refrained, but he said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you because you have done this and not heeded my advice.”
Israel Defeats Judah
17#2Ki 14:8–14Then Amaziah king of Judah received advice and sent for Jehoash#Heb. text has Joash, but Jehoash is also given to distinguish between the Judean and Israelite kings. the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us meet together.”
18#Jdg 9:8–15So Jehoash king of Israel sent a message for Amaziah king of Judah saying, “A thistle in Lebanon sent for a cedar in Lebanon stating, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ Then an animal of the field in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thistle. 19#2Ch 26:16; 32:25You say that you have struck down Edom, and your heart lifts you up in arrogance. Now remain in your palace. Why do you provoke disaster so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”
20#1Ki 12:15; 2Ch 22:7But Amaziah would not listen because this was from God so that He might give them into the hand of Jehoash because Amaziah had sought after the gods of Edom. 21So Jehoash king of Israel went up, and they faced each other, he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth Shemesh, which is in Judah. 22And Judah was struck down by Israel, and each man fled to his home. 23#2Ch 21:17; Ne 8:16So at Beth Shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel seized Amaziah king of Judah the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah. And they brought him to Jerusalem and broke through the walls of the city from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate, a section of four hundred cubits.#About 600 feet, or 180 meters. 24#1Ch 26:15And Jehoash took all the gold and silver and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obed-Edom, even the treasures of the palace of the king and hostages. Then he returned to Samaria.
The Death of Amaziah
25#2Ki 14:17–22And Amaziah, the son of Joash king of Judah, lived fifteen years more after the death of Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz king of Israel. 26Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, from first to last, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel? 27From the time when Amaziah turned aside from the Lord, they plotted a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. Then they sent for him and put him to death in Lachish. 28They brought him on horses and buried him with his fathers in the City of David in Judah.
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