Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Second
Chronicles: Chapter 25
1. AM-A-ZI-AH
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
Je-ho-ad-dan 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 Am-a-zi-ah 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 E-phra-im.
8. But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for battle: God shall make thee
fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.
9. And Am-a-zi-ah 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 Am-a-zi-ah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to
him out of E-phra-im, to go home again: wherefore their anger was
greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger.
11. And Am-a-zi-ah 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 Am-a-zi-ah 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 three thousand of them, and took
much spoil.
14. Now it came to pass, after that Am-a-zi-ah 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 Am-a-zi-ah, 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 Am-a-zi-ah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the
son of Je-ho-a-haz, 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 Am-a-zi-ah 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 Am-a-zi-ah 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 Am-a-zi-ah king of Judah, at Beth-she-mesh, 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 Am-a-zi-ah king of Israel, the son
of Joash, the son of Je-ho-a-haz, at Beth-she-mesh, and brought him to
Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of E-phra-im
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 Obed-edom, and the treasures of the
king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
25. And Am-a-zi-ah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death
of Joash son of Je-ho-a-haz king of Israel fifteen years.
26. Now the rest of the acts of Am-a-zi-ah, first and last, behold, are
they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
27. Now after the time that Am-a-zi-ah did turn away from following the
LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to La-chish:
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.
June 6
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