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2 Chronicles 25 :: New International Version (NIV)

Amaziah King of Judah

(2Ki 14:1–6 )

2Ch 25:1

2Ch 25:1Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem.

2Ch 25:2

2Ch 25:2He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not wholeheartedly.

2Ch 25:3

2Ch 25:3After the kingdom was firmly in his control, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king.

2Ch 25:4

2Ch 25:4Yet he did not put their children to death, but acted in accordance with what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor children be put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.”[fn]

2Ch 25:5

2Ch 25:5Amaziah called the people of Judah together and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He then mustered those twenty years old or more and found that there were three hundred thousand men fit for military service, able to handle the spear and shield.

2Ch 25:6

2Ch 25:6He also hired a hundred thousand fighting men from Israel for a hundred talents[fn] of silver.

2Ch 25:7

2Ch 25:7But a man of God came to him and said, “Your Majesty, these troops from Israel must not march with you, for the LORD is not with Israel—not with any of the people of Ephraim.

2Ch 25:8

2Ch 25:8Even if you go and fight courageously in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has the power to help or to overthrow.”

2Ch 25:9

2Ch 25:9Amaziah asked the man of God, “But what about the hundred talents I paid for these Israelite troops?” The man of God replied, “The LORD can give you much more than that.”

2Ch 25:10

2Ch 25:10So Amaziah dismissed the troops who had come to him from Ephraim and sent them home. They were furious with Judah and left for home in a great rage.

2Ch 25:11

2Ch 25:11Amaziah then marshaled his strength and led his army to the Valley of Salt, where he killed ten thousand men of Seir.

2Ch 25:12

2Ch 25:12The army of Judah also captured ten thousand men alive, took them to the top of a cliff and threw them down so that all were dashed to pieces.

2Ch 25:13

2Ch 25:13Meanwhile the troops that Amaziah had sent back and had not allowed to take part in the war raided towns belonging to Judah from Samaria to Beth Horon. They killed three thousand people and carried off great quantities of plunder.

2Ch 25:14

2Ch 25:14When Amaziah returned from slaughtering the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the people of Seir. He set them up as his own gods, bowed down to them and burned sacrifices to them.

2Ch 25:15

2Ch 25:15The anger of the LORD burned against Amaziah, and he sent a prophet to him, who said, “Why do you consult this people’s gods, which could not save their own people from your hand?”

2Ch 25:16

2Ch 25:16While he was still speaking, the king said to him, “Have we appointed you an adviser to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?” So the prophet stopped but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”

2Ch 25:17

2Ch 25:17After Amaziah king of Judah consulted his advisers, he sent this challenge to Jehoash[fn] son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel: “Come, let us face each other in battle.”

2Ch 25:18

2Ch 25:18But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle underfoot.

2Ch 25:19

2Ch 25:19You say to yourself that you have defeated Edom, and now you are arrogant and proud. But stay at home! Why ask for trouble and cause your own downfall and that of Judah also?”

2Ch 25:20

2Ch 25:20Amaziah, however, would not listen, for God so worked that he might deliver them into the hands of Jehoash, because they sought the gods of Edom.

2Ch 25:21

2Ch 25:21So Jehoash king of Israel attacked. He and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth Shemesh in Judah.

2Ch 25:22

2Ch 25:22Judah was routed by Israel, and every man fled to his home.

2Ch 25:23

2Ch 25:23Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah,[fn] at Beth Shemesh. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section about four hundred cubits[fn] long.

2Ch 25:24

2Ch 25:24He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the temple of God that had been in the care of Obed-Edom, together with the palace treasures and the hostages, and returned to Samaria.

2Ch 25:25

2Ch 25:25Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.

2Ch 25:26

2Ch 25:26As for the other events of Amaziah’s reign, from beginning to end, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?

2Ch 25:27

2Ch 25:27From the time that Amaziah turned away from following the LORD, they conspired against him in Jerusalem and he fled to Lachish, but they sent men after him to Lachish and killed him there.

2Ch 25:28

2Ch 25:28He was brought back by horse and was buried with his ancestors in the City of Judah.[fn]
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NIV Footnotes
That is, about 3 3/4 tons or about 3.4 metric tons; also in verse 9
Hebrew Joash, a variant of Jehoash; also in verses 18, 21, 23 and 25
Hebrew Jehoahaz, a variant of Ahaziah
That is, about 600 feet or about 180 meters
Most Hebrew manuscripts; some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac (see also 2 Kings 14:20) David
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