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1 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. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a per­fect heart. 3 Now it came to pass, when the king­dom was es­tab­lished to him, that he slew his ser­vants that had killed the king his fa­ther. 4 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. 5 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. 6 He hired also an hun­dred thou­sand mighty men of val­our out of Is­rael for an hun­dred tal­ents of sil­ver. 7 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. 8 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. 9 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. 10 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. 11 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. 12 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. 13 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. 14 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. 15 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? 16 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. 17 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. 18 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. 19 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? 20 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. 21 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. 22 And Ju­dah was put to the worse be­fore Is­rael, and they fled ev­ery man to his tent. 23 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. 24 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. 25 And Amazi­ah the son of Joash king of Ju­dah lived af­ter the death of Joash son of Je­hoa­haz king of Is­rael fif­teen years. 26 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? 27 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. 28 And they brought him upon hors­es, and buried him with his fa­thers in the city of Ju­dah.