2 Chronicles 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.
2 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, but not with a perfect
heart.
3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established unto him, that he slew
his servants that had killed the king his father.
4 But he put not their children to death, but did according to that which is
written in the law in the book of Moses, as Jehovah 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.
5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their
fathers' houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all
Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upward, and
found them three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go forth to war, that
could handle spear and shield.
6 He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for a
hundred talents of silver.
7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel
go with thee; for Jehovah is not with Israel, [to wit], with all the children of
Ephraim.
8 But if thou wilt go, do [valiantly], be strong for the battle: God will cast
thee down before the enemy; for God hath power to help, and to cast down.
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,
Jehovah is able to give thee much more than this.
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 fierce anger.
11 And Amaziah took courage, and led forth his people, and went to the Valley of
Salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.
12 And [other] ten thousand did the children of Judah carry away alive, and
brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the
rock, so that they all were broken in pieces.
13 But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with
him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Beth-horon,
and smote of them three thousand, and took much spoil.
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.
15 Wherefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto
him a prophet, who said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the
people, which have not delivered their own people out of thy hand?
16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that [the king] said unto him,
Have we made thee 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.
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 look one another
in the face.
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 trod down the thistle.
19 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten Edom; and thy heart lifteth thee up to
boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou
shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
20 But Amaziah would not hear; for it was of God, that he might deliver them
into the hand [of their enemies], because they had sought after the gods of
Edom.
21 So Joash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one
another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
22 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to his
tent.
23 And Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son
of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the
wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred
cubits.
24 And [he took] all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in
the house of God with Obed-edom, and the treasures of the king's house, the
hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
25 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son
of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
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?
27 Now from the time that Amaziah did turn away from following Jehovah they made
a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent
after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
28 And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city
of Judah.