| 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.
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| 25:2 |
And he did that which was right in the sight of the
LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
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| 25:3 |
Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established
to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the
king his father.
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| 25:4 |
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.
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| 25:5 |
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.
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| 25:6 |
He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of
valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
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| 25:7 |
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.
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| 25:8 |
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.
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| 25:9 |
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.
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| 25:10 |
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.
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| 25:11 |
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.
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| 25:12 |
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.
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| 25:13 |
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.
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| 25:14 |
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.
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| 25:15 |
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?
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| 25:16 |
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.
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| 25:17 |
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.
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| 25:18 |
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.
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| 25:19 |
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?
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| 25:20 |
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.
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| 25:21 |
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.
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| 25:22 |
And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and
they fled every man to his tent.
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| 25:23 |
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.
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| 25:24 |
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.
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| 25:25 |
And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived
after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel
fifteen years.
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| 25:26 |
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?
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| 25:27 |
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.
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| 25:28 |
And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with
his fathers in the city of Judah.
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