The Second Book of Divre Hayamim, starting at chapter 25
{25:1} Amatzyah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned twenty-nine years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's
name was Yeho`addan, of Yerushalayim. {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 law in the book of Moshe, 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 Amatzyah gathered Yehudah together, and ordered them
according to their fathers' houses, under captains of thousands and
captains of hundreds, even all Yehudah and Binyamin: 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 Yisra'el 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
Yisra'el go with you; for the LORD is not with Yisra'el, [to wit],
with all the children of Efrayim. {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}
Amatzyah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred
talents which I have given to the army of Yisra'el? The man of God
answered, the LORD is able to give you much more than this. {25:10}
Then Amatzyah separated them, [to wit], the army that had come to him
out of Efrayim, to go home again: therefore their anger was greatly
kindled against Yehudah, and they returned home in fierce anger.
{25:11} Amatzyah took courage, and led forth his people, and went to
the Valley of Salt, and struck of the children of Se`ir ten thousand.
{25:12} [other] ten thousand did the children of Yehudah 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 Amatzyah sent back, that they
should not go with him to battle, fell on the cities of Yehudah, from
Shomron even to Beit-Horon, and struck of them three thousand, and
took much spoil. {25:14} Now it happened, after that Amatzyah was come
from the slaughter of the Edom, that he brought the gods of the
children of Se`ir, 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 Amatzyah, 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 Amatzyah king of Yehudah took
advice, and sent to Yo'ash, the son of Yeho'achaz the son of Yehu,
king of Yisra'el, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.
{25:18} Yo'ash king of Yisra'el sent to Amatzyah king of Yehudah,
saying, The thistle that was in Levanon sent to the cedar that was in
Levanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son as wife: and there
passed by a wild animal that was in Levanon, 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 Yehudah with you?
{25:20} But Amatzyah 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 Yo'ash king of Yisra'el went up;
and he and Amatzyah king of Yehudah looked one another in the face at
Beit-Shemesh, which belongs to Yehudah. {25:22} Yehudah was put to the
worse before Yisra'el; and they fled every man to his tent. {25:23}
Yo'ash king of Yisra'el took Amatzyah king of Yehudah, the son of
Yo'ash the son of Yeho'achaz, at Beit-Shemesh, and brought him to
Yerushalayim, and broke down the wall of Yerushalayim from the gate of
Efrayim 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 `Oved-'Edom, and the treasures of the king's house, the
hostages also, and returned to Shomron. {25:25} Amatzyah the son of
Yo'ash king of Yehudah lived after the death of Yo'ash son of
Yeho'achaz king of Yisra'el fifteen years. {25:26} Now the rest of the
acts of Amatzyah, first and last, behold, aren't they written in the
book of the kings of Yehudah and Yisra'el? {25:27} Now from the time
that Amatzyah did turn away from following the LORD they made a
conspiracy against him in Yerushalayim; and he fled to Lakhish: but
they sent after him to Lakhish, and killed him there. {25:28} They
brought him on horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of
Yehudah.
{26:1} All the people of Yehudah took `Uzziyah, who was sixteen
years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amatzyah.
{26:2} He built Elot, and restored it to Yehudah, after that the king
slept with his fathers. {26:3} Sixteen years old was `Uzziyah when he
began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Yerushalayim: and
his mother's name was Yekholyah, of Yerushalayim. {26:4} He did that
which was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his
father Amatzyah had done. {26:5} He set himself to seek God in the
days of Zekharyah, 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 Pelishtim, and broke down the wall of
Gat, and the wall of Yavneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built
cities in [the country of] Ashdod, and among the Pelishtim. {26:7} God
helped him against the Pelishtim, and against the `Aravi'im who lived
in Gur-Ba`al, and the Me`unim. {26:8} The `Ammonim gave tribute to
`Uzziyah: and his name spread abroad even to the entrance of
Mitzrayim; for he grew exceeding strong. {26:9} Moreover `Uzziyah
built towers in Yerushalayim 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 cattle; 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 `Uzziyah had an army of
fighting men, who went out to war by bands, according to the number of
their reckoning made by Ye`i'el the [1>]Sofer[<1] and Ma`aseyah the
officer, under the hand of Hananyah, 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} `Uzziyah prepared for them, even for all the host,
shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and
stones for slinging. {26:15} He made in Yerushalayim 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 temple of
the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense. {26:17} `Azaryah the
[2>]Kohen[<2] went in after him, and with him eighty [3>]Kohanim[<3]
of the LORD, who were valiant men: {26:18} and they withstood `Uzziyah
the king, and said to him, It pertains not to you, `Uzziyah, to burn
incense to the LORD, but to the [4>]Kohanim[<4] the sons of Aharon,
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 `Uzziyah was angry; and he had a censer in his hand to
burn incense; and while he was angry with the [5>]Kohanim[<5], the
leprosy broke forth in his forehead before the [6>]Kohanim[<6] in the
house of the LORD, beside the altar of incense. {26:20} `Azaryah the
chief [7>]Kohen[<7], and all the [8>]Kohanim[<8], 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} `Uzziyah 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 Yotam his son was over the
king's house, judging the people of the land. {26:22} Now the rest of
the acts of `Uzziyah, first and last, did Yesha`yahu the prophet, the
son of Amotz, write. {26:23} So `Uzziyah 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 Yotam his son reigned
in his place.
{27:1} Yotam was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and
he reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was
Yerusha the daughter of Tzadok. {27:2} He did that which was right in
the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father `Uzziyah had
done: however he didn't enter into the temple of the LORD. The people
did yet corruptly. {27:3} He built the upper gate of the house of the
LORD, and on the wall of `Ofel he built much. {27:4} Moreover he built
cities in the hill-country of Yehudah, 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 Yotam became mighty, because he ordered his ways
before the LORD his God. {27:7} Now the rest of the acts of Yotam, and
all his wars, and his ways, behold, they are written in the book of
the kings of Yisra'el and Yehudah. {27:8} He was five and twenty years
old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim.
{27:9} Yotam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city
of David: and Achaz his son reigned in his place.
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Footnotes:
[1] {26:11} scribe
[2] {26:17} priest
[3] {26:17} priests
[4] {26:18} priests
[5] {26:19} priests
[6] {26:19} priests
[7] {26:20} priest
[8] {26:20} priests
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