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2 Chronicles 25:1
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, neith
er 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 Beth-horon, 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 Beth-shemesh, 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 Beth-shemesh, 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 Obed-edom, 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.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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