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.
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
A.M.
2 Kings 14:5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his …
established to him [heb] confirmed upon him
he slew
2 Chronicles 24:25,26 And when they were departed from him…
Genesis 9:5,6 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of …
Exodus 21:14 But if a man come presumptuously on his neighbor, to slay him with …
Numbers 35:31-33 Moreover you shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, …
No doubt those wicked men, Jozachar and jehozabad, who murdered his father, had considerable influence; and therefore he found it dangerous to bring them to justice, till he was assured of the loyalty of his other officers: when this was clear, he called them to an account, and justly put them to death for treason and murder; for, if even these conspirators against Joash intended to avenge upon him the death of Zechariah, they acted without a commission from that God `to who vengeance belongeth.'
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.
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.
He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
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.
a man of God
2 Samuel 12:1 And the LORD sent Nathan to David. And he came to him, and said to …
1 Kings 13:1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of …
1 Timothy 6:11 But you, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, …
2 Timothy 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished to all good works.
for the Lord
2 Chronicles 13:12 And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests …
2 Chronicles 19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said …
1 Kings 12:28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and …
Isaiah 28:1-3 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious …
Hosea 5:13-15 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went …
Hosea 9:13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim …
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.
be strong
2 Chronicles 18:14 And when he was come to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, …
Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you …
Isaiah 8:9,10 Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; …
Joel 3:9-14 Proclaim you this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty …
Matthew 26:45 Then comes he to his disciples, and said to them, Sleep on now, and …
God hath power
2 Chronicles 14:11 And Asa cried to the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing …
2 Chronicles 20:6 And said, O LORD God of our fathers, are not you God in heaven? and …
Judges 7:7 And the LORD said to Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped …
1 Samuel 14:6 And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armor, Come, and …
Job 5:18 For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.
Job 9:13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
Psalm 20:7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember …
Psalm 33:16-10 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man …
Psalm 62:11 God has spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongs to God.
Ecclesiastes 9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, …
army [heb] band
2 Chronicles 25:13 But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should …
the Lord
2 Chronicles 1:12 Wisdom and knowledge is granted to you; and I will give you riches, …
Deuteronomy 8:18 But you shall remember the LORD your God: for it is he that gives …
Psalm 24:1 The earth is the LORD's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and …
Proverbs 10:22 The blessing of the LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
Haggai 2:8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, said the LORD of hosts.
Luke 18:29,30 And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There is no man that has …
Philippians 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in …
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.
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.
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.
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.
And other ten thousand No intimation is given on what account, or on what provocation, this most cruel conduct towards the prisoners of war was adopted. The enmity between israel and Edom seems to have been reciprocal and deeply malignant. The victorious king and his army considered every individual of Edom as a traitor and rebel; and so adjudged them to death, and acted on this judgment. But their conduct was wholly inexcusable, and could only perpetuate rancour to future generations, and provoke the surviving Edomites to cruel retaliations, whenever they had it in their power.
cast them
2 Samuel 12:31 And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under …
1 Chronicles 20:3 And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with …
broken in pieces
2 Chronicles 20:10 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom …
2 Chronicles 21:8-10 In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah, …
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.
soldiers of the army. [heb] sons of the band.
2 Chronicles 25:9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the …
fell upon the cities These Israelites seem to have returned home, when discharged by Amaziah, whose powerful army deterred them from attempting revenge at that time; but when he was engaged in war with the Edomites, they marched from Samaria, and plundered all the cities till they came to Beth-horon, where they slew
Samaria
1 Kings 16:24,29 And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, …
Beth-horon
2 Chronicles 8:5 Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced …
1 Kings 9:17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,
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.
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?
a prophet
2 Chronicles 25:7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army …
2 Chronicles 16:7-9 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said …
2 Chronicles 19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said …
2 Chronicles 20:37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, …
2 Samuel 12:1-6 And the LORD sent Nathan to David. And he came to him, and said to …
why hast thou sought
2 Chronicles 24:20 And the Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, …
Judges 2:2 And you shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; you …
Jeremiah 2:5 Thus said the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, …
the gods
Psalm 96:5 For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
which could
2 Chronicles 25:11,12 And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went …
Psalm 115:4-8 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands…
Isaiah 44:9,10 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable …
Isaiah 46:1,2 Bel bows down, Nebo stoops, their idols were on the beasts, and on …
Jeremiah 10:7 Who would not fear you, O King of nations? for to you does it appertain: …
1 Corinthians 8:4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered …
1 Corinthians 10:20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice …
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.
Art thou made
2 Chronicles 16:10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; …
2 Chronicles 18:25 Then the king of Israel said, Take you Micaiah, and carry him back …
2 Chronicles 24:21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the …
Amos 7:10-13 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying…
Matthew 21:23 And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders …
forbear
Proverbs 9:7,8 He that reproves a scorner gets to himself shame: and he that rebukes …
Isaiah 30:10,11 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not …
Jeremiah 29:26 The LORD has made you priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, …
2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; …
Revelation 11:10 And they that dwell on the earth shall rejoice over them, and make …
determined [heb] counselled
2 Chronicles 18:20,21 Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, …
Exodus 9:16 And in very deed for this cause have I raised you up, for to show …
Deuteronomy 2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD …
1 Samuel 2:25 If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if …
Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the …
Acts 4:28 For to do whatever your hand and your counsel determined before to be done.
Romans 9:22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known…
Ephesians 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance…
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.
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.
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?
heart
2 Chronicles 26:16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: …
2 Chronicles 32:25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done to …
Deuteronomy 8:14 Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, which …
Proverbs 13:10 Only by pride comes contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 28:25 He that is of a proud heart stirs up strife: but he that puts his …
Daniel 5:20-23 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, …
Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the …
James 4:6 But he gives more grace. Why he said, God resists the proud, but …
1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of …
to boast
Jeremiah 9:23 Thus said the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither …
1 Corinthians 1:29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
why shouldest
2 Chronicles 35:21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with you, …
Proverbs 18:6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for strokes.
Proverbs 20:3 It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
Proverbs 26:17 He that passes by, and meddles with strife belonging not to him, …
Luke 14:31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, sits not down first…
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.
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.
they saw one another That is, `they fought against each other.' To face an enemy, or to face one another, is still a common expression. The reason of this war was evidently the injury the army of Joash had done to the unoffending inhabitants of Judah. The ravages committed by them were totally unprovoked, base, and cowardly: they fell upon women, old men, and children, and butchered them in cold blood, when all the effective men were gone with their king against the Edomites. The quarrel of Amaziah were certainly just, yet he was put to the rout: he fell, and Judah with him, as Joash had said; and the reason was, because `it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hands of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom.' This was the reason why the Israelites triumphed.
2 Chronicles 25:17 Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son …
Beth-shemesh
Joshua 21:16 And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh …
1 Samuel 6:9,19,20 And see, if it goes up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, …
And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent.
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.
took Amaziah
2 Chronicles 33:11 Why the LORD brought on them the captains of the host of the king …
2 Chronicles 36:6,10 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him …
Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 29:23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Daniel 4:37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, …
Obadiah 1:3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you that dwell in the clefts …
Luke 14:11 For whoever exalts himself shall be abased; and he that humbles himself …
Jehoahaz
2 Chronicles 21:17 And they came up into Judah, and broke into it, and carried away …
2 Chronicles 22:1 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king …
Ahaziah
2 Chronicles 22:6 And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which …
Azariah
gate of Ephraim
Nehemiah 8:16 So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, …
Nehemiah 12:39 And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above …
corner gate [heb] the gate of it that looketh
2 Chronicles 26:9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and …
Jeremiah 31:38 Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that the city shall be built …
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.
And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
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?
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.
And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.
