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Amaziah's Reign: Victory, Pride, and Defeat by Israel

2 Chronicles 25:1-28

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Chapter 25
1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. 2 He did what was upright in the eyes of the LORD, but not with a complete heart. 3 And it was when the kingdom grew strong upon him that he killed his servants—the ones who had struck the king his father. 4 He did not put their sons to death, for it is written in the Torah, in the book of Moses, which the LORD commanded: "Fathers shall not die on account of sons, and sons shall not die on account of fathers; a man shall die in his own sin." 5 And Amaziah gathered Judah and stationed them according to their houses of fathers, to chiefs of the thousands and to chiefs of the hundreds, to all Judah and Benjamin. And he mustered them from twenty years old and upward, and found them three hundred thousand choice men for the host, going out grasping spear and shield. 6 And he hired a hundred thousand mighty men of valor from Israel for a hundred kikkars of silver. 7 A man of God came to him and said, "O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel—all the sons of Ephraim." 8 But if you go, strengthen yourself for the battle. God will make you fall before the enemy, for God has power to help and to make fall. 9 Amaziah said to the man of God, "What about the hundred talents I gave to the band of Israel?" The man of God said, "The LORD is able to give you much more than this." 10 And Amaziah separated them, the band that had come to him from Ephraim, to go to their place. And their nostrils burned greatly against Judah, and they returned to their place in burning of nostril. 11 Amaziah strengthened himself, led his people, and went to the Valley of Salt, where he struck down ten thousand sons of Seir. 12 And ten thousands of living ones, the sons of Judah, returned and brought them to the head of the rock and threw them from the head of the rock, and all of them were dashed to pieces. 13 And the sons of the band whom Amaziah had turned back from going with his people to the warfare raided the cities of Judah from Samaria as far as Beth Horon, and they struck down three thousand of them, and they plundered Rabbah greatly. 14 And it was after Amaziah came back from striking the Edomites that he brought the gods of the sons of Seir and set them up for himself as gods, and before them he bowed down and to them he offered incense. 15 And the anger of the LORD burned against Amaziah, and He sent a prophet to him, and he said to him, "Why did you seek the gods of the people, whom they did not deliver their people from your hand?" 16 While he was still speaking to him, the king said, "Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?" So the prophet stopped, but he said, "I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel." 17 And Amaziah king of Judah consulted, and they sent to Joash son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us see one another face to face." 18 Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, "A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, 'Give your daughter to my son for a wife.' And a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled the thistle." 19 You said, "See, you have struck Edom," and your heart has lifted you up to boast. Now stay in your house. Why should you provoke trouble so that you fall—you and Judah with you?" 20 But Amaziah would not listen, for it came from God so that he might give them into their hand, because they had sought the gods of Edom. 21 And Joash king of Israel went up, and they saw one another—he and Amaziah king of Judah—at Beth-shemesh, which belonged to Judah. 22 And Judah was struck before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent. 23 Amaziah king of Judah, son of Joash son of Jehoahaz—Joash king of Israel seized him at Beth Shemesh. He brought him to Jerusalem and breached the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Turning Gate, four hundred cubits. 24 And he took all the gold and the silver and all the vessels found in the house of God with Obed-edom and the treasures of the house of the king and the sons of the pledges. And Samaria sat. 25 Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel for fifteen years. 26 The rest of the words of Amaziah, the first ones and the last ones—are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel? 27 And from the time that Amaziah turned away from following the LORD, they conspired against him a conspiracy in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. And they sent after him to Lachish, and they put him to death there. 28 They bore him on horses and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.