These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Chronicles 25
Tanakh 28 verses
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Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in ; and his mother’s was Jehoaddan of .
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- 2 And he did that which was right in the eyes of , but not with a whole .
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Now it came to pass, when the was established unto him, that he slew his servants who had killed the his father.
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But he put not their children to death, but did according to that which is written in the in the book of , as 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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- 5 Moreover Amaziah gathered together, and ordered them according to their fathers’ houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all and ; and he numbered them from twenty years old and upward, and found them three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.
- 6 He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of for a hundred talents of silver.
- 7 But there came a man of to him, saying: ‘O , let not the army of go with thee; for is not with , even with all the children of .
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But if thou wilt go, and do engage never so valiantly in battle, will cast thee down before the enemy; for hath power to help, and to cast down.’
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2 Chronicles 20:6 2 Chronicles 14:11 Philippians 4:19 Matthew 26:45 Haggai 2:8 Joel 3:9-14 2 Chronicles 18:14 Ecclesiastes 11:9 Luke 18:29-30 Isaiah 8:9-10 Job 5:18 Deuteronomy 8:18 Job 9:13 Ecclesiastes 9:11 Psalm 24:1 Psalm 62:11 2 Chronicles 1:12 Psalm 33:10 Judges 7:7 1 Samuel 14:6 Psalm 33:16 Proverbs 10:22 Psalm 20:7 -
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And Amaziah said to the man of : ‘But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of ?’ And the man of answered: ‘The 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 , to go back home; wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against , and they returned home in fierce anger.
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And Amaziah took courage, 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 did the children of carry away alive, 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 men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of , from even unto Beth-horon, and smote of them three thousand, 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 Elohims of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his Elohims, and prostrated himself before them, and offered unto them.
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- 15 Wherefore the anger of was kindled against Amaziah, and He sent unto him a , who said unto him: ‘Why hast thou sought after the Elohims of the people, which have not delivered their own people out of thy hand?’
- 16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that [the ] said unto him: ‘Have we made thee of the king’s counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten?’ Then the forbore, and said: ‘I that hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.’
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Then Amaziah of took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, of , saying: ‘Come, let us look one another in the .’
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And Joash of sent to Amaziah of , 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 the wild beasts that were in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle.
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- 19 Thou sayest—lo, thou hast smitten ; will thy therefore lift thee up to therein? abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle with evil, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and with thee?’
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But Amaziah would not ; for it was of , that He might deliver them into the hand [of their enemies], because they had sought after the Elohims of .
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So Joash of went up; and he and Amaziah of looked one another in the at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to .
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And was put to the worse before ; and they fled every man to his tent.
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- 23 And Joash of took Amaziah of , the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to , and broke down the wall of from the gate of unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
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And [he took] all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of with Obed-edom, and the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to .
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And Amaziah the son of Joash of lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz of fifteen 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 and ?
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Now from the time that Amaziah did turn away from following they made a conspiracy against him in ; and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
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And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of .
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