2 Chronicles 25 (NET)

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2 Chronicles 25:1¹Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother was Jehoaddan, who was from Jerusalem.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 14:1-6

2 Chronicles 25:2²He did what the Lord approved, but not with wholehearted devotion.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 25:14 Jas 4:8 2 Chr 24:2 Acts 8:21 Isa 29:13 1 Sam 16:7 2 Chr 26:4 2 Kgs 14:4 Hos 10:2 Jas 1:8

2 Chronicles 25:3³When he had secured control of the kingdom, he executed the servants who had assassinated his father the king.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 24:25-26 2 Kgs 14:5-22 Exod 21:14 Gen 9:5-6 Num 35:31-33

2 Chronicles 25:4⁴However, he did not execute their sons. He obeyed the Lord ’s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses, “Fathers must not be executed for what their sons do, and sons must not be executed for what their fathers do. A man must be executed only for his own sin.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 24:16 Ezek 18:20 2 Kgs 14:5-6 Jer 31:29-30 Ezek 18:4

2 Chronicles 25:5⁵Amaziah assembled the people of Judah and assigned them by families to the commanders of units of 1,000 and the commanders of units of 100 for all Judah and Benjamin. He counted those twenty years old and up and discovered there were 300,000 young men of fighting age equipped with spears and shields.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 1:3 2 Chr 17:14-18 2 Chr 11:1 1 Chr 13:1 1 Chr 27:1 1 Sam 8:12 2 Chr 14:8 2 Chr 26:13 Exod 18:25

2 Chronicles 25:6⁶He hired 100,000 Israelite warriors for 100 talents of silver.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

2 Chronicles 25:7⁷But a prophet visited him and said: “O king, the Israelite troops must not go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel or any of the Ephraimites.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 19:2 1 Kgs 12:28 1 Kgs 13:1 1 Tim 6:11 2 Chr 13:12 2 Sam 12:1 2 Tim 3:17 Hos 5:13-15 Hos 9:13 Isa 28:1-3

2 Chronicles 25:8⁸Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will defeat you before the enemy. God is capable of helping or defeating.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 14:11 2 Chr 20:6 Phil 4:19 Luke 18:29-30 1 Sam 14:6 2 Chr 1:12 2 Chr 18:14 Deut 8:18 Eccl 11:9 Eccl 9:11

2 Chronicles 25:9⁹Amaziah asked the prophet: “But what should I do about the 100 talents of silver I paid the Israelite troops?” The prophet replied, “The Lord is capable of giving you more than that.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 8:18 Prov 10:22

2 Chronicles 25:10¹⁰So Amaziah dismissed the troops that had come to him from Ephraim and sent them home. They were very angry at Judah and returned home incensed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 12:24 2 Sam 19:43 Prov 29:22

2 Chronicles 25:11¹¹Amaziah boldly led his army to the Valley of Salt, where he defeated 10,000 Edomites.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 14:7 2 Sam 8:13 Ps 60:1

2 Chronicles 25:12¹²The men of Judah captured 10,000 men alive. They took them to the top of a cliff and threw them over. All the captives fell to their death.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 20:10 1 Chr 20:3 2 Chr 21:8-10 2 Sam 12:31

2 Chronicles 25:13¹³Now the troops Amaziah had dismissed and had not allowed to fight in the battle raided the cities of Judah from Samaria to Beth Horon. They killed 3,000 people and carried off a large amount of plunder.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 16:24 1 Kgs 16:29 1 Kgs 9:17 2 Chr 8:5

2 Chronicles 25:14¹⁴When Amaziah returned from defeating the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the people of Seir and made them his personal gods. He bowed down before them and offered them sacrifices.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 28:23 2 Sam 5:21 Deut 7:25 Deut 7:5 Exod 20:3-5 Isa 44:19

2 Chronicles 25:15¹⁵The Lord was angry at Amaziah and sent a prophet to him, who said, “Why are you following these gods that could not deliver their own people from your power?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 96:5 2 Chr 25:11-12 1 Cor 10:20 1 Cor 8:4 2 Chr 16:7-9 2 Chr 19:2 2 Chr 20:37 2 Chr 24:20 2 Chr 25:7 2 Sam 12:1-6

2 Chronicles 25:16¹⁶While he was speaking, Amaziah said to him, “Did we appoint you to be a royal counselor? Stop prophesying or else you will be killed!” So the prophet stopped, but added, “I know that God has decided to destroy you, because you have done this thing and refused to listen to my advice.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 2:25 2 Chr 16:10 2 Chr 18:20-21 2 Chr 18:25 2 Chr 24:21 2 Tim 4:3 Acts 4:28 Amos 7:10-13 Deut 2:30 Eph 1:11

2 Chronicles 25:17¹⁷After King Amaziah of Judah consulted with his advisers, he sent this message to the king of Israel, Joash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, “Come, face me on the battlefield.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 14:8-14 2 Chr 25:13 2 Sam 2:14 Prov 20:3

2 Chronicles 25:18¹⁸King Joash of Israel sent this message back to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thorn bush in Lebanon sent this message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ Then a wild animal of Lebanon came by and trampled down the thorn bush.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 9:8-15 1 Kgs 4:33 Ps 80:13

2 Chronicles 25:19¹⁹You defeated Edom and it has gone to your head. Gloat over your success, but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 26:16 2 Chr 32:25 1 Cor 1:29 1 Pet 5:5 2 Chr 35:21 Dan 5:20-23 Deut 8:14 Hab 2:4 Jas 4:6 Jer 9:23

2 Chronicles 25:20²⁰But Amaziah did not heed the warning, for God wanted to hand them over to Joash because they followed the gods of Edom.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 12:15 2 Chr 22:7 1 Pet 2:8 2 Chr 25:16 2 Thess 2:9-11 Acts 28:25-27 Ps 81:11-12

2 Chronicles 25:21²¹So King Joash of Israel attacked. He and King Amaziah of Judah faced each other on the battlefield in Beth Shemesh of Judah.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 6:19-20 1 Sam 6:9 Josh 21:16

2 Chronicles 25:22²²Judah was defeated by Israel, and each man ran back home.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 22:36 1 Sam 4:10 2 Chr 28:5-6

2 Chronicles 25:23²³King Joash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah, son of Joash son of Jehoahaz, in Beth Shemesh and brought him to Jerusalem. He broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate—a distance of about 600 feet.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 21:17 Neh 8:16 2 Chr 22:1 2 Chr 26:9 Jer 31:38 Neh 12:39 2 Chr 22:6 2 Chr 33:11 2 Chr 36:10 2 Chr 36:6

2 Chronicles 25:24²⁴He took away all the gold and silver, all the items found in God’s temple that were in the care of Obed-Edom, the riches in the royal palace, and some hostages. Then he went back to Samaria.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Chr 26:15 2 Chr 12:9 2 Kgs 14:14

2 Chronicles 25:25²⁵King Amaziah son of Joash of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of King Joash son of Jehoahaz of Israel.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 14:17-22

2 Chronicles 25:26²⁶The rest of the events of Amaziah’s reign, from start to finish, are recorded in the Scroll of the Kings of Judah and Israel.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 20:34 2 Kgs 14:15

2 Chronicles 25:27²⁷From the time Amaziah turned from following the Lord, conspirators plotted against him in Jerusalem, so he fled to Lachish. But they sent assassins after him and they killed him there.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 15:2 2 Chr 24:25 2 Kgs 14:19 Josh 10:31

2 Chronicles 25:28²⁸His body was carried back by horses, and he was buried with his ancestors in the City of David.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 14:20