II Chronicles 25 Amaziah Defeats the Edomites

 II Chronicles 25

Amaziah Defeats the Edomites

1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Joadan of Jerusalem.

2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not with a whole heart.

3 So it came to pass, when the kingdom was established for him, that he slew his servants who had struck down the king his father.

4 Yet he did not slay his sons, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, as the Lord commanded, saying, "Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, neither shall children be put to death for their fathers; but each man shall die for his own sin."

5 Then Amaziah gathered Judah together and appointed them by their fathers' houses, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, throughout Judah and Benjamin. and he numbered them, from twenty years old and upward, and found of them three hundred thousand chosen men, who went out to the army, bearing spear and shield. 

6 He also hired one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver. 

7 But a man of God came to him, saying, O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel, that is, with the children of Ephraim. 

8 But if you do go, do it, be strong for the battle: God will cause you to fall before the enemy; for there is power in God to help and to cast down. 

9 Then Amaziah said to the man of God, What then shall be done with the hundred talents of silver which I have given to the armies of Israel? And the man of God said, The LORD can give you more than that. 

10 Then Amaziah separated the armies that had come to him from Ephraim, that they might go to their place; Therefore his anger was kindled against Judah, and they returned to their place in great anger.

11 So Amaziah took courage, and led his people out, and went to the Valley of Salt, and smote ten thousand of the children of Seir.

12 And the children of Judah captured ten thousand alive, and brought them to the top of the rock; and they threw them down from the top of the rock, and they all dashed to pieces.

13 But the men of the army whom Amaziah had sent away, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.