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* 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 . * And he did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD , but not with a whole heart . * Now it came to pass , when the kingdom was established unto him , that he slew his servants who had killed the king his father . * But he put not their children to death , but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses , as 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 .' * Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together , and ordered them according to their fathers ' houses , under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds , even all Judah and Benjamin ; and he numbered them from twenty years old and upward , and found them three hundred thousand chosen men , able to go forth to war , that could handle spear and shield . * He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver . * 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 , even with all the children of Ephraim . * But if thou wilt go , and do engage never so valiantly in battle , God will cast thee down before the enemy ; for God hath power to help , and to cast down .' * 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 .' * Then Amaziah separated them , to wit , the army that was come to him out of Ephraim , to go back home ; wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah , and they returned home in fierce anger . * And Amaziah took courage , and led forth his people , and went to the Valley of Salt , and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand . * And other ten thousand did the children of Judah carry away alive , 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 . * But the men of the army whom Amaziah 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 of them three thousand , and took much spoil . * 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 prostrated himself before them , and offered unto them . * Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah , and He sent unto him a prophet , who said unto him : 'Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people , which have not delivered their own people out of thy hand ?' * And it came to pass , as he talked with him , that the king said unto him : 'Have we made thee of the king 's counsel ? forbear ; why shouldest thou be smitten ?' Then the prophet forbore , and said : 'I know that God hath determined to destroy thee , because thou hast done this , and hast not hearkened unto my counsel .' * 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 look one another in the face .' * 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 the wild beasts that were in Lebanon , and trod down the thistle . * Thou sayest--lo , thou hast smitten Edom ; will thy heart therefore lift thee up to glory therein ? abide now at home ; why shouldest thou meddle with evil , that thou shouldest fall , even thou , and Judah with thee ?' * But Amaziah would not hear ; for it was of God , that He might deliver them into the hand of their enemies , because they had sought after the gods of Edom . * So Joash king of Israel went up ; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh , which belongeth to Judah . * And Judah was put to the worse before Israel ; and they fled every man to his tent . * And Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah , the son of Joash , the son of Jehoahaz , at Beth-shemesh , and brought him to Jerusalem , and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate , four hundred cubits . * And he took all the gold and 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 . * And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years . * 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 ? * Now from 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 after him to Lachish , and slew him there . * And they brought him upon horses , and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah .

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