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Text -- 2 Chronicles 25:1-12 (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 .
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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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