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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 sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
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.
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.
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.
6 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty
men of valour out of Israel for an 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 the LORD is
not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
22 And Judah was put to the worse before
Israel, and they fled every man to his tent.
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.
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.
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 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.
28 And they brought him upon horses, and
buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.
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