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Text -- 2 Chronicles 25:1-24 (NET)
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Amaziah’s Reign
25:1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem . His mother was Jehoaddan , who was from Jerusalem .
25:2 He did what the Lord approved , but not with wholehearted devotion .
25:3 When he had secured control of the kingdom , he executed the servants who had assassinated his father .
25:4 However, he did not execute their sons . He obeyed the Lord’s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses , “Fathers must not be executed for what their sons do, and sons must not be executed for what their fathers do. A man must be executed only for his own sin .”
25:5 Amaziah assembled the people of Judah and assigned them by families to the commanders of units of a thousand and the commanders of units of a hundred for all Judah and Benjamin . He counted those twenty years old and up and discovered there were 300,000 young men of fighting age equipped with spears and shields .
25:6 He hired 100,000 Israelite warriors for a hundred talents of silver .
25:7 But a prophet visited him and said : “O king , the Israelite troops must not go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel or any of the Ephraimites .
25:8 Even if you go and fight bravely in battle , God will defeat you before the enemy . God is capable of helping or defeating .”
25:9 Amaziah asked the prophet : “But what should I do about the hundred talents of silver I paid the Israelite troops ?” The prophet replied , “The Lord is capable of giving you more than that .”
25:10 So Amaziah dismissed the troops that had come to him from Ephraim and sent them home . They were very angry at Judah and returned home incensed .
25:11 Amaziah boldly led his army to the Valley of Salt , where he defeated 10,000 Edomites .
25:12 The men of Judah captured 10,000 men alive . They took them to the top of a cliff and threw them over . All the captives fell to their death .
25:13 Now the troops Amaziah had dismissed and had not allowed to fight in the battle raided the cities of Judah from Samaria to Beth Horon . They killed 3,000 people and carried off a large amount of plunder .
25:14 When Amaziah returned from defeating the Edomites , he brought back the gods of the people of Seir and made them his personal gods . He bowed down before them and offered them sacrifices .
25:15 The Lord was angry at Amaziah and sent a prophet to him, who said , “Why are you following these gods that could not deliver their own people from your power ?”
25:16 While he was speaking , Amaziah said to him, “Did we appoint you to be a royal counselor ? Stop prophesying or else you will be killed !” So the prophet stopped , but added , “I know that the Lord has decided to destroy you, because you have done this thing and refused to listen to my advice .”
25:17 After King Amaziah of Judah consulted with his advisers, he sent this message to the king of Israel , Joash son of Jehoahaz , the son of Jehu , “Come, face me on the battlefield.”
25:18 King Joash of Israel sent this message back to King Amaziah of Judah , “A thorn bush in Lebanon sent this message to a cedar in Lebanon , ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife .’ Then a wild animal of Lebanon came by and trampled down the thorn bush .
25:19 You defeated Edom and it has gone to your head . Gloat over your success , but stay in your palace . Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?”
25:20 But Amaziah did not heed the warning, for God wanted to hand them over to Joash because they followed the gods of Edom .
25:21 So King Joash of Israel attacked . He and King Amaziah of Judah faced each other on the battlefield in Beth Shemesh of Judah .
25:22 Judah was defeated by Israel , and each man ran back home .
25:23 King Joash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah , son of Joash son of Jehoahaz , in Beth Shemesh and brought him to Jerusalem . He broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate – a distance of about six hundred feet .
25:24 He took away all the gold and silver , all the items found in God’s temple that were in the care of Obed-Edom , the riches in the royal palace , and some hostages . Then he went back to Samaria .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Amaziah |
Israel |
Joktheel |
Jehoash |
SALT, VALLEY OF |
CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF |
JEHOASH; JOASH |
JUDAH, KINGDOM OF |
Faith |
Jerusalem |
Jehoaddan |
Beth-shemesh |
Ephraim |
EDOM, IDUMAEA OR IDUMEA |
Ahaziah |
ARMY |
Obed-edom |
Sarcasm |
EPHRAIM, GATE OF |
Edomites |
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NET Notes -> 2Ch 25:1; 2Ch 25:2; 2Ch 25:2; 2Ch 25:3; 2Ch 25:3; 2Ch 25:4; 2Ch 25:4; 2Ch 25:4; 2Ch 25:4; 2Ch 25:5; 2Ch 25:5; 2Ch 25:5; 2Ch 25:6; 2Ch 25:7; 2Ch 25:7; 2Ch 25:8; 2Ch 25:8; 2Ch 25:9; 2Ch 25:9; 2Ch 25:10; 2Ch 25:11; 2Ch 25:11; 2Ch 25:11; 2Ch 25:12; 2Ch 25:12; 2Ch 25:12; 2Ch 25:12; 2Ch 25:13; 2Ch 25:13; 2Ch 25:13; 2Ch 25:13; 2Ch 25:14; 2Ch 25:14; 2Ch 25:15; 2Ch 25:15; 2Ch 25:15; 2Ch 25:16; 2Ch 25:16; 2Ch 25:16; 2Ch 25:17; 2Ch 25:17; 2Ch 25:18; 2Ch 25:19; 2Ch 25:19; 2Ch 25:19; 2Ch 25:19; 2Ch 25:20; 2Ch 25:20; 2Ch 25:21; 2Ch 25:22; 2Ch 25:23
NET Notes: 2Ch 25:1 For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
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NET Notes: 2Ch 25:3 Heb “he killed his servants, the ones who had struck down the king, his father.”
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NET Notes: 2Ch 25:6 The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used...
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NET Notes: 2Ch 25:10 Heb “and Amaziah separated them, the troops who came to him from Ephraim, to go to their place.”
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NET Notes: 2Ch 25:17 Heb “let us look at each other [in the] face.” The expression refers here not to a visit but to meeting in battle. See v. 21.
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NET Notes: 2Ch 25:18 The thorn bush in the allegory is Judah. Amaziah’s success had deceived him into thinking he was on the same level as the major powers in the ar...
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NET Notes: 2Ch 25:20 Heb “because it was from God in order to give them into the hand because they sought the gods of Edom.”
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NET Notes: 2Ch 25:21 Heb “looked at each other [in the] face.” See the note on the expression “Come on, face me on the battlefield” in v. 17.
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