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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 the LORD, 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 Torah in the book of Moses, as 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." {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} A man of God
came to him, saying, "O king, don't let the army of Israel go with
you; for the LORD is not with Israel, with all the children of
Ephraim. {25:8} But if you will go, take action, be strong for the
battle. God will overthrow you before the enemy; for God has power to
help, and to overthrow."
{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, "The LORD is able to give you much more
than this."
{25:10} Then Amaziah separated them, 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 ten thousand of the children of Seir. {25:12} The
children of Judah carry away ten thousand alive, and brought them to
the top of the rock, and threw 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 had 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 the LORD 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 one of the king's counselors? 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 consulted his advisers, 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 his wife; then a
wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the
thistle. {25:19} You say to yourself that you have struck Edom; and
your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you
meddle with trouble, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with
you?'"
{25:20} But Amaziah would not listen; 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 defeated by
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 God's house 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 turned away from following the
LORD, they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem. 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 place 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 the LORD, 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 the
LORD, 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 dug 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'
households, 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 the LORD his God; for he went
into the LORD's temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.
{26:17} Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty
priests of the LORD, who were valiant men: {26:18} and they resisted
Uzziah the king, and said to him, "It isn't for you, Uzziah, to burn
incense to the LORD, but for 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 the LORD 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 the
LORD, 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 the LORD 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
the LORD: 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, Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, wrote. {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." 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 the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah had
done: however he didn't enter into the LORD's temple. The people still
did corruptly. {27:3} He built the upper gate of the house of the
LORD, 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. The children of Ammon
gave that much to him in the second year also, and in the third.
{27:6} So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before the
LORD 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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