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His mother’s name was Jehoaddan, from Jerusalem. <span id="v14025002" class="ver">2</span>He did what was right in the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s sight, though not wholeheartedly. <span id="v14025003" class="ver">3</span>When he had the kingdom firmly in hand, he struck down the officials who had struck down the king, his father. <span id="v14025004" class="ver">4</span>But their children he did not put to death, for he acted according to what is written in the law, in the Book of Moses, which the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> commanded: “Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their parents; they shall each die for their own sin.”<a id="ren14025004-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en14025004-b">b</a></p> <p><span id="v14025005" class="ver">5</span>Amaziah gathered Judah and placed them, out of all Judah and Benjamin according to their ancestral houses, under leaders of thousands and of hundreds. When he made a count of those twenty years old and over, he found that there were three hundred thousand picked men fit for war, capable of handling lance and shield. <span id="v14025006" class="ver">6</span>He also hired a hundred thousand valiant warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver. <span id="v14025007" class="ver">7</span>But a man of God came to him and said: “O king, let not the army of Israel go with you, for the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> is not with Israel—with any Ephraimite. <span id="v14025008" class="ver">8</span>Instead, go on your own, strongly prepared for the battle; why should the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> hinder you in the face of the enemy: for with God is power to help or to hinder.” <span id="v14025009" class="ver">9</span>Amaziah answered the man of God, “But what is to be done about the hundred talents that I paid for the troops of Israel?” The man of God replied, “The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> can give you much more than that.” <span id="v14025010" class="ver">10</span>Amaziah then disbanded the troops that had come to him from Ephraim, and sent them home. But they became furiously angry with Judah, and returned home blazing with anger.</p> <p><span id="v14025011" class="ver">11</span>Amaziah now assumed command of his army. They proceeded to the Valley of Salt, where they killed ten thousand men of Seir.<a id="ren14025011-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en14025011-c">c</a> <span id="v14025012" class="ver">12</span>The Judahites also brought back another ten thousand alive, led them to the summit of Sela, and then threw them down from that rock<a id="rfn14025012-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn14025012-1">*</a> so that their bodies split open. <span id="v14025013" class="ver">13</span>Meanwhile, the troops Amaziah had dismissed from going into battle with him raided the cities of Judah from Samaria to Beth-horon. They struck down three thousand of the inhabitants and carried off much plunder.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Amaziah’s Apostasy.</span> <span id="v14025014" class="ver">14</span>When Amaziah returned from his conquest of the Edomites he brought back with him the gods of the people of Seir. He set these up as his own gods; he bowed down before them and offered sacrifice to them. <span id="v14025015" class="ver">15</span>Then the anger of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> blazed out against Amaziah, and he sent a prophet to him who said: “Why have you sought this people’s gods that could not deliver their own people from your power?” <span id="v14025016" class="ver">16</span>While he was still speaking, however, the king said to him: “Have you been appointed the king’s counselor? Stop! Why should you have to be killed?” Therefore the prophet stopped. But he said, “I know that God’s counsel is your destruction, for by doing this you have refused to listen to my counsel.”</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Amaziah Punished.</span> <span id="v14025017" class="ver">17</span><a id="ren14025017-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en14025017-d">d</a> Having taken counsel, Amaziah, king of Judah, sent word to Joash, son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, the king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us meet face to face.” <span id="v14025018" class="ver">18</span>Joash, king of Israel, sent this reply to Amaziah, king of Judah: “A thistle of Lebanon sent word to a cedar of Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage,’ but an animal of Lebanon passed by and trampled the thistle underfoot.<a id="ren14025018-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en14025018-e">e</a> <span id="v14025019" class="ver">19</span>You are thinking,</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf">‘See, I have struck down Edom!’</p> <p class="sl1">Your heart is lifted up,</p> <p class="sl">And glories in it. Stay home!</p> <p class="sl">Why bring misfortune and failure</p> <p class="sl1l">on yourself and on Judah with you?”</p> </div> <p class="pcon"><span id="v14025020" class="ver">20</span>But Amaziah did not listen; for it was God’s doing that they be handed over because they sought the gods of Edom.</p> <p><span id="v14025021" class="ver">21</span>So Joash, king of Israel, advanced, and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, met face to face at Beth-shemesh of Judah, <span id="v14025022" class="ver">22</span>and Judah was defeated by Israel, and all fled to their tents. <span id="v14025023" class="ver">23</span>But Amaziah, king of Judah, son of Joash, son of Jehoahaz, was captured by Joash, king of Israel, at Beth-shemesh. Joash brought him to Jerusalem and tore down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits. <span id="v14025024" class="ver">24</span>He took all the gold and silver and all the vessels found in the house of God with Obed-edom,<a id="rfn14025024-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn14025024-1">*</a> and in the treasuries of the king’s house, and hostages as well. Then he returned to Samaria.</p> <p><span id="v14025025" class="ver">25</span><a id="ren14025025-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en14025025-f">f</a> Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, survived Joash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, by fifteen years. <span id="v14025026" class="ver">26</span>The rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, are recorded in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. <span id="v14025027" class="ver">27</span>Now from the time that Amaziah turned away from the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, a conspiracy was formed against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But he was pursued to Lachish and killed there. <span id="v14025028" class="ver">28</span>He was brought back on horses and was buried with his ancestors in the City of Judah.<a id="rfn14025028-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn14025028-1">*</a></p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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