The Second Book of Chronicles, starting at chapter 25
{25:1} Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and
he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem. {25:2} He did that which was right in the
eyes of Yahweh, but not with a perfect heart. {25:3} Now it happened,
when the kingdom was established to him, that he killed his servants
who had killed the king his father. {25:4} But he didn't put their
children to death, but did according to that which is written in the
law in the book of Moses, as Yahweh 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. {25:5} Moreover
Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their
fathers' houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,
even all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years
old and upward, and found them three hundred thousand chosen men, able
to go forth to war, who could handle spear and shield. {25:6} He hired
also one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for one
hundred talents of silver. {25:7} But there came a man of God to him,
saying, O king, don't let the army of Israel go with you; for Yahweh
is not with Israel, [to wit], with all the children of Ephraim. {25:8}
But if you will go, do [valiantly], be strong for the battle: God will
cast you down before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to cast
down. {25:9} 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? The man
of God answered, Yahweh is able to give you much more than this.
{25:10} Then Amaziah separated them, [to wit], the army that had come
to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: therefore their anger was
greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in fierce anger.
{25:11} Amaziah took courage, and led forth his people, and went to
the Valley of Salt, and struck of the children of Seir ten thousand.
{25:12} [other] ten thousand did the children of Judah carry away
alive, and brought them to the top of the rock, and cast them down
from the top of the rock, so that they all were broken in pieces.
{25:13} But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they
should not go with him to battle, fell on the cities of Judah, from
Samaria even to Beth Horon, and struck of them three thousand, and
took much spoil. {25:14} Now it happened, 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 to them. {25:15} Therefore the
anger of Yahweh was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent to him a
prophet, who said to him, Why have you sought after the gods of the
people, which have not delivered their own people out of your hand?
{25:16} It happened, as he talked with him, that [the king] said to
him, Have we made you of the king's counsel? Stop! Why should you be
struck down? Then the prophet stopped, and said, I know that God has
determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not
listened to my counsel. {25:17} 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 look one another in the face. {25:18}
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 your daughter to my son as wife: and there passed by a
wild animal that was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle. {25:19}
You say, Behold, you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to
boast: abide now at home; why should you meddle to [your] hurt, that
you should fall, even you, and Judah with you? {25:20} But Amaziah
would not hear; for it was of God, that he might deliver them into the
hand [of their enemies], because they had sought after the gods of
Edom. {25:21} So Joash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king
of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs
to Judah. {25:22} Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they
fled every man to his tent. {25:23} Joash 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 broke down the wall of Jerusalem
from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
{25:24} [He took] all the gold and 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. {25:25}
Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash
son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. {25:26} Now the rest of
the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, aren't they written in
the book of the kings of Judah and Israel? {25:27} Now from the time
that Amaziah did turn away from following Yahweh they made a
conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they
sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there. {25:28} They brought
him on horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.
{26:1} All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years
old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. {26:2} He
built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with
his fathers. {26:3} Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to
reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's
name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem. {26:4} He did that which was right
in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Amaziah had
done. {26:5} He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who
had understanding in the vision of God: and as long as he sought
Yahweh, God made him to prosper. {26:6} He went forth and warred
against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall
of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in [the country
of] Ashdod, and among the Philistines. {26:7} God helped him against
the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur Baal, and
the Meunim. {26:8} The Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah: and his name
spread abroad even to the entrance of Egypt; for he grew exceeding
strong. {26:9} Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner
gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning [of the wall], and
fortified them. {26:10} He built towers in the wilderness, and hewed
out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and
in the plain: [and he had] farmers and vineyard keepers in the
mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved farming. {26:11}
Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men, who went out to war by
bands, according to the number of their reckoning made by Jeiel the
scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of
the king's captains. {26:12} The whole number of the heads of fathers'
[houses], even the mighty men of valor, was two thousand and six
hundred. {26:13} Under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand
and seven thousand and five hundred, who made war with mighty power,
to help the king against the enemy. {26:14} Uzziah prepared for them,
even for all the army, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of
mail, and bows, and stones for slinging. {26:15} He made in Jerusalem
engines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the
battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. His name
spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, until he was strong.
{26:16} But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he
did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went
into the temple of Yahweh to burn incense on the altar of incense.
{26:17} Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty
priests of Yahweh, who were valiant men: {26:18} and they withstood
Uzziah the king, and said to him, It pertains not to you, Uzziah, to
burn incense to Yahweh, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, who are
consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for you have
trespassed; neither shall it be for your honor from Yahweh God.
{26:19} Then Uzziah was angry; and he had a censer in his hand to burn
incense; and while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke
forth in his forehead before the priests in the house of Yahweh,
beside the altar of incense. {26:20} Azariah the chief priest, and all
the priests, looked on him, and behold, he was leprous in his
forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from there; yes, himself
hurried also to go out, because Yahweh had struck him. {26:21} Uzziah
the king was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate
house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of Yahweh: and
Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the
land. {26:22} Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did
Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write. {26:23} So Uzziah slept
with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of
burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and
Jotham his son reigned in his place.
{27:1} Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and
he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Jerushah the daughter of Zadok. {27:2} He did that which was right in
the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Uzziah had done:
however he didn't enter into the temple of Yahweh. The people did yet
corruptly. {27:3} He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and
on the wall of Ophel he built much. {27:4} Moreover he built cities in
the hill country of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and
towers. {27:5} He fought also with the king of the children of Ammon,
and prevailed against them. The children of Ammon gave him the same
year one hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of
wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon
render to him, in the second year also, and in the third. {27:6} So
Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Yahweh his
God. {27:7} Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and
his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel
and Judah. {27:8} He was five and twenty years old when he began to
reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. {27:9} Jotham slept
with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz
his son reigned in his place.
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