2Chronicles:25-27
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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 .
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And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD ,
but not with a perfect heart .
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Now it came to pass ,
when the kingdom was established to him ,
that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father .
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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 .
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Moreover Amaziah 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 .
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He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver .
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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 Ephraim .
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But if thou wilt go ,
do it ,
be strong for the battle :
God shall make thee fall before the enemy :
for God hath power to help ,
and to cast down .
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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 .
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Then Amaziah separated them ,
to wit ,
the army that was come to him out of Ephraim ,
to go home again :
wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah ,
and they returned home in great anger .
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And Amaziah strengthened himself ,
and led forth his people ,
and went to the valley of salt ,
and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand .
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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 .
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But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back ,
that they should not go with him to battle ,
fell upon the cities of Judah ,
from Samaria even unto Bethhoron ,
and smote three thousand of them ,
and took much spoil .
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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 bowed down himself before them ,
and burned incense unto them .
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Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah ,
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 ?
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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 .
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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 see one another in the face .
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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 a wild beast that was in Lebanon ,
and trode down the thistle .
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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 ?
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But Amaziah 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 .
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So Joash the king of Israel went up ;
and they saw one another in the face ,
both he and Amaziah king of Judah ,
at Bethshemesh ,
which belongeth to Judah .
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And Judah was put to the worse before Israel ,
and they fled every man to his tent .
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And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah ,
the son of Joash ,
the son of Jehoahaz ,
at Bethshemesh ,
and brought him to Jerusalem ,
and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate ,
four hundred cubits .
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And he took all the gold and the silver ,
and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obededom ,
and the treasures of the king '
s house ,
the hostages also ,
and returned to Samaria .
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And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years .
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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 ?
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Now after 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 to Lachish after him ,
and slew him there .
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And they brought him upon horses ,
and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah .
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Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah ,
who was sixteen years old ,
and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah .
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He built Eloth ,
and restored it to Judah ,
after that the king slept with his fathers .
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Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign ,
and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem .
His mother '
s name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem .
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And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD ,
according to all that his father Amaziah did .
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And he sought God in the days of Zechariah ,
who had understanding in the visions of God :
and as long as he sought the LORD ,
God made him to prosper .
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And he went forth and warred against the Philistines ,
and brake down the wall of Gath ,
and the wall of Jabneh ,
and the wall of Ashdod ,
and built cities about Ashdod ,
and among the Philistines .
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And God helped him against the Philistines ,
and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal ,
and the Mehunims .
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And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah :
and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt ;
for he strengthened himself exceedingly .
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Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate ,
and at the valley gate ,
and at the turning of the wall ,
and fortified them .
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Also he built towers in the desert ,
and digged many wells :
for he had much cattle ,
both in the low country ,
and in the plains :
husbandmen also ,
and vine dressers in the mountains ,
and in Carmel :
for he loved husbandry .
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Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men ,
that went out to war by bands ,
according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler ,
under the hand of Hananiah ,
one of the king '
s captains .
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The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred .
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And under their hand was an army ,
three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred ,
that made war with mighty power ,
to help the king against the enemy .
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And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields ,
and spears ,
and helmets ,
and habergeons ,
and bows ,
and slings to cast stones .
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And he made in Jerusalem engines ,
invented by cunning men ,
to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks ,
to shoot arrows and great stones withal .
And his name spread far abroad ;
for he was marvellously helped ,
till he was strong .
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But when he was strong ,
his heart was lifted up to his destruction :
for he transgressed against the LORD his God ,
and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense .
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And Azariah the priest went in after him ,
and with him fourscore priests of the LORD ,
that were valiant men :
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And they withstood Uzziah the king ,
and said unto him ,
It appertaineth not unto thee ,
Uzziah ,
to burn incense unto the LORD ,
but to the priests the sons of Aaron ,
that are consecrated to burn incense :
go out of the sanctuary ;
for thou hast trespassed ;
neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God .
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Then Uzziah was wroth ,
and had a censer in his hand to burn incense :
and while he was wroth with the priests ,
the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD ,
from beside the incense altar .
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And Azariah the chief priest ,
and all the priests ,
looked upon him ,
and ,
behold ,
he was leprous in his forehead ,
and they thrust him out from thence ;
yea ,
himself hasted also to go out ,
because the LORD had smitten him .
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And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death ,
and dwelt in a several house ,
being a leper ;
for he was cut off from the house of the LORD :
and Jotham his son was over the king '
s house ,
judging the people of the land .
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Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah ,
first and last ,
did Isaiah the prophet ,
the son of Amoz ,
write .
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So Uzziah slept with his fathers ,
and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings ;
for they said ,
He is a leper :
and Jotham his son reigned in his stead .
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Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign ,
and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem .
His mother '
s name also was Jerushah ,
the daughter of Zadok .
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And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD ,
according to all that his father Uzziah did :
howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD .
And the people did yet corruptly .
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He built the high gate of the house of the LORD ,
and on the wall of Ophel he built much .
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Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah ,
and in the forests he built castles and towers .
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He fought also with the king of the Ammonites ,
and prevailed against them .
And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver ,
and ten thousand measures of wheat ,
and ten thousand of barley .
So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him ,
both the second year ,
and the third .
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So Jotham became mighty ,
because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God .
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Now the rest of the acts of Jotham ,
and all his wars ,
and his ways ,
lo ,
they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah .
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He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign ,
and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem .
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And Jotham slept with his fathers ,
and they buried him in the city of David :
and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead .
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Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign ,
and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem :
but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD ,
like David his father :