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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 mothers 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 me #
ah #,
according to the houses of their fathers ,
throughout all Judah and Benjamin :
and he numbered them from twenty years old and above ma #
al #,
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 Yisra #
el #,
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 Yisra #
el #?
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 Beyth ,
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 Se #
iyr #,
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 kings 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 Yow #
ash #,
the son of Jehoahaz Y @
how #
achaz #,
the son of Jehu ,
king of Israel Yisra #
el #,
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 Beyth ,
which belongeth to Judah .
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And Judah was put to the worse before Israel Yisra #
el #,
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 Yow #
ash #,
the son of Jehoahaz Y @
how #
achaz #,
at Bethshemesh Beyth ,
and brought him to Jerusalem ,
and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate sha #
ar #,
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 #
Obed ,
and the treasures of the kings house ,
the hostages ben #
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 chamesh #
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 Yisra #
el #?
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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 .